but somehow you didn’t?
I remember I ran across the street when I was younger in my teens. Just being wild. The people I was with said that I almost got hit by a car. Sure there are other moments that is the only one that comes to mind.
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I was fed up with life so I crossed a busy road and said to myself, “If I make it to the other side, I will continue to try to live”.
A car brushed against my leg, but I made it to the other side.
Well, yeah.
Like the time I was driving to work in the morning, sitting in the left turn lane, daydreaming because there wasn’t much traffic. The light for me turned green, I hesitated to finish off my daydream, and before I put my foot down on the gas pedal to move forward,
an 18 wheeler tractor trailer truck blew the intersection right in front of me (legal speed for him was 40mph), but he ran the red light against me and would have T-boned my car at the drivers side door. He never even hit his brakes.
It would have been a messy fatality.
Think it took me about a couple of hours later before I could breath at a normal rate.
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I remember one time when I ran across a street too. It was out of emotion because I did not want to be around my sister anymore but she kept following me. so I ran across the street and ran a good ways so that she couldn’t find me. but I swear I was so close to getting hit by a car.
I was cut off by a semi turning onto the highway in front of me in a rainstorm once. Slammed on the brakes to avoid crashing into it, skidded out of control towards an embankment, spun across several lanes and ended up stopped facing into oncoming traffic.
It went so slowly, I just thought, “This is how stupid 19 year olds die…” But I didn’t.
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Yes, I accidentally took two Vicodin caplets once and was having a terrible time staying awake. I toppled over and fell on the floor after taking too many of these Vicodin so I knew something was wrong. My pupils were uneven too and that scared me. I kept slapping myself in the face and talking with my best friend on the phone to try to stay awake. I was very afraid that if I fell asleep I would not wake up. I waited it out and went to bed.
I’ve also been in very numerous, serious car accidents, all mostly my fault. But, I’ve miraculously never suffered a scratch, bruise, broken bone or stitch in any of them. I’ve also amazingly never hurt anyone else either. That is a God thing, man. I no longer drive nor own a car. Praise God!
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Recently I had decided to cross the freeway on a very busy Friday night about 530PM, right in the middle of commute time.
I made my way from the creek up to the bridge area when I heard a helicopter’s blades going around the area above me. I stood close to the edge and could hear the traffic slow down then stop! There wasn’t one car on that freeway in both directions, and the helicopter noise kept going around my head, but I never really recall seeing it.
I waited quite a few minutes before backing down, when I saw some black camo men leave the helicopter and move towards me.
Scared the pee outta me so I took off down to the street level under the bridge, when the vehicles started back up resuming their 65mph.
This is only a small bit of the stuff that happened to me, and no, I wasn’t sleeping, psychotic or stupid.
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I used to ride my road motorbike. Id do stupid speeds and dangerous stuff. Countless times ive been close to death. I dont know if id call it accidental though, more suicidal really. Some call it flirting with death.
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No idea how I survived my last suicide attempt. Think it was being over weight that saved me. Was in a coma for a few days (at least think I was) kind of a blur for a week or so mostly slept and threw up a lot.
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Yes, I had a perforated ulcer in 2006 that I had emergency surgery on. It was excruciatingly painful. It is 100% fatal if not fixed immediately. Close call.
I also had an ‘episode’ with a suicide attempt but I didn’t know overdosing on AP’s and Anti-depressants doesn’t kill you. It WILL, however, kill your motor skills for hours and completely incapacitate you.
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When my son was born, there was only one doctor on staff and I did natural childbirth so the doctor just checked in from time to time. When I started pushing, no one was paying attention and I ended up having I think it was a third degree tear. I needed multiple stitches. But the doctor didn’t stitch enough and I kept bleeding. I remember feeling myself fading and just saying “get the doctor” over and over. They did more stitches. When a friend came to visit the next morning I was still in the delivery room and she said it looked like a war zone. The birthing assistant called me two days later to see if I was ok because she said she’s never seen that much blood.
So I guess I almost died then…?
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I drank too much and took too many pill and my stomach almost bled out. I’ve been in too many near-miss drunk driving accidents. I’ve had guns pulled on me several times where I was sure I’d be murdered. And I’ve almost died overdosing on heroin a couple times.
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I have been run over twice I believe, had over four very close call overdoses, fell down a cliff, was left dangling by my leg from 15ft above the busiest main road that goes into my town, had a 12 bore shotgun aimed at my head, played Russian roulette with a handgun, jumped off of the top of school building with a parachute that didn’t work.
My entire life has practically been one real long near-death experience, it keeps things interesting to say the least.
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dude, are you 007?
unless they were accidental
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I guess suicide attempts don’t count
Well I took an entire bottle of Prozac the first time, and the second time I took a whole bottle of Haldol, a whole bottle of Amantadine, and a whole bottle of Zoloft. Perhaps I accidentally did that.
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Hahaha, nah it just seems that my ideas for having a little bit of fun from time to time never seem to end well.
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Many times…I was in 5th grade on top of a mountain on a field trip…there was snow…so I slid down…it was ice I couldn’t stop it became steep… before the several hundred foot fall I flipped on my belly and kicked the ice…nothing…Im closing in on the end of the ice and edge…last chance I kick with all my 5th grade might…and my foot goes through and holds…its so steep I’m hugging the ice…I yelled and yelled…and finally someone hears me…they have to toss me a rope and pull me up…
Got in the car with someone who was too drunk to drive early 20s…we hit an embankment that led us into the airport grassy area…doing well over 100…flew high enough to blip on the airports radar and the front hit the ground I was knocked out… flipped back over front a football fields distance…landed…facing the jump…headlights pointed to the sky trunk and back seats flattened …cracked my sternum…other person broke their back…it was my just paid off car…to add insult to injury…the faa sent me 12, $300 a piece fines…ranging from violating united states protected air space in an unauthorized vehicle…to blipping on radar…and taking out a fence…all air violations were dropped as it was a car…but paid the 200 for the fence…
I have 5 or 6 more but that’s enough…
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oh yeah I forgot to mention that I think I had one in a psych ward. it was back when they were trying to find the right medicine for me. so every day, they gave me some pills that had a different shape or color than the day before.
one time, they gave me this medicine, I think it was called cladopin but I might be wrong. but anyhow, I took it and went to sleep. when I woke up, my lungs weren’t working well. I felt like I was in my death bed. I told my roommate and he said to drink cold water.
I went to the nurse station and begged them for some machine that would help me breathe because I thought I was going to die. obviously they didn’t give, so I just sat in the lunch room and started crying.
for a long time, I refused medication.
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