While going 100+mph on a motorcycle, I went in-between 2 deer bounding across the street. I fortunately didn't have any time to react or I would've surely hit the second one. Instead I just eased off the throttle to a stop, and took a few minutes to breathe and think about how bad that all could've gone.

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Look I'm sorry to preach. The speed listed here is just plain dumb.

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Had been eating at Luby's in Killeen Tx, every day for lunch.

Skipped lunch one day to finish out the job I was doing.

On my way out of town, I pass Luby's, and it's all taped off with a pickup truck sticking out of the wall. Cops everywhere.

Some guy crashed into the building, got out, and started shooting all the employees and customers.

The truck hit the booth I'd been sitting in all week.

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Not me, but my father tells a story of driving along a bush road in Bouganville before the revolution there. He was in the car with my mom, baby me and my 5yr old brother. There was a cardboard box on the side of the road, blowing a bit in the window, like an empty shipping box type thing, and he was going to run over it to amuse my little brother. At the last moment he pulled away though, worried about there being something side it.

As we drove past he looked back in the rearview mirror and saw two little kids crawl out of the box and look after him as we drove down the road.

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Why would you purposely hit a random box on the road?? ANYTHING could be in it! A piece of equipment, nails, tools, kids, animals - literally anything! I've heard tales of people putting unwanted pets in boxes and leaving them in the street to get run over and killed! NEVER EVER purposely hit random boxes on the road!! You might just save a life or at least not risk damaging your car.

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While white water rafting, my raft was going through rapids when I got ejected from the raft and sent underwater. I swam up and hit my helmet on a rock. It was pretty dark and murky. That is when I realized that I had been pushed by the current either underneath a rock outcrop or into an underwater cave, I'm not really sure which. Trying my best not to panic, I did the only thing I could think of, use my hands to grip the rock and push myself against the current while kicking. After what felt like an eternity underwater, but it was probably no more than about 2 or 3 minutes, I noticed the light was getting brighter, and before I knew it, I had reached the surface. Once at the surface, the current of the rapids shot me downstream, and I floated to the nearest bank of the river to collect myself.

Edit: It has been pointed out that it is unlikely I was underwater for that length of time. I agree that my memory during such a stressful event is probably unreliable, so I will add that the length of time I was underwater was long enough for the rest of my group to become concerned about my wellbeing.

But I would like to say that I don't think I possess any significant ability to hold my breath. I was a fairly fit teenager at the time, but honestly, I think most of you reading this, under those circumstances, would be able to hold your breath for much longer than you thought. Survival instincts are a hell of a thing.

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You can't predict what fear and adrenaline will make you do. 2-3 minutes is not that difficult for a fit person.. especially if you are holding it for your life.

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Got admitted to the ER after my potassium levels tested low. They gave me an IV and a couple pills, and then kept me in the hospital a couple days until I was at a normal level and were sure that the medication I was on wasn't lowering that significantly.

The next day, when the doctor came to check on me, he said he did not know anyone with such low potassium in their bloodwork that was still alive.

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Walking through a dutch town at old years eve, loud bang and 15 cm next to my head a large metal traffic sign stuck in the wall which somebody blew off a pole 25 meters away.

On a holiday with a huge hangover me and a friend decided to swim to the pizzeria on the other side of a 3km wide lake. Halfway we both were completely exhausted and very much undercooled with large purple spots appearing on our bodies. And when we started to be convinced that we'd die a random tourist in a small fishing boat appeared and took us in.

Falling 9 meters down at work, but landed in the only sandpile due to construction works on for the rest a concrete floor.

Sliding with the bike on a wet road and went under a bus from the side and came out in the back without hitting anything.


I should be dead..

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I wonder what the purple spots, that appeared on their bodies, in the lake, was caused from?

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Had a tree fall on me. I was 2 steps away from being crushed by the trunk.

Paramedics made sure to tell me that while I'm sitting there with a flap of skin hanging off my scalp. Like, thanks, dude. For pointing out I almost died while I was already in shock.

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This is really unhelpful. Ive had near death experiences twice due to different medical conditions, each time I wouldn't have known it if I wasn't told, neither time was it necessary for me to know that if I hadn't received treatment when I did that I would have died. Both times messed me up mentally and I now suffer from health anxiety as a result.

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I have been close to death 4 times.

First time when I was born. I literally shot out of my mom, and the midwife only just managed to catch me before I hit the floor.

Second time when I was around 8 or 9. I fell from one of those raised sand pens. I landed in a way that should have broken my neck (because in theory I could not have landed beneath the large tree trunk right beside it without hitting the back of my head on it).

Third time I was skiing. I lost control of my skis down a mountain and went off course. I hit a tree really hard. If I hadn't been stopped by that tree, I would have tumbled over the edge and fallen down the mountain.

Fourth time was when I gave birth to my stillborn son. An hour or so after giving birth, I started bleeding a lot and was rushed to the operating room.

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I was saved by a highway marker once. I was coming down a hill and my brakes felt soft. Pulled over to check them and almost went over the side. Hitting the marker just barely stopped me. Turns out I'd just overhauled my master cylinder and made a mistake that resulted in my brakes being partially on all the time. They overheated on that hill and almost stopped *me*.

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Like 12 years old, the main power line from our house to the street power pole caught on fire from a squirrel chewing on it. I saw the fire, parents not home, so I get a cup of water and try throwing it up to the power line to put the fire out. I did this a few times and I couldn't get the water high enough to reach the fire so I called 911 and they made it there within like 10 min. The fire man said I'm lucky the water never made it up there because the current could have traveled back down to me and caused a cardiac arrest. I still think about that from time to time. I wonder why no one cared there was three children home alone all under the age of 12 at 11 on a school day.

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So, why were 3 kids, 12 and under, at home alone, at 11am on a school day?

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Left the gas on when I was little making eggs. My stepfather came back early one day from work. He never did that. Chances are I would have either blown up or died from poisoning.

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Again, why the heck is a small child at home alone using a gas stove?

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Brain inflammation, “Brain on Fire”, due to medication reaction in my brain ( Lyrica + Prednisone). Went untreated for 10 months led to a week of 4 NDE’s, multiple different hospital misdiagnosis issues, and at least a 4 year recovery period. When finally diagnosed the Dr’s gave my family no hope of a recovery. None. Today I am healthier than ever and offer this - NEVER GIVE UP, NEVER STOP BELIEVING.

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This was years ago but I still get shivers over it. I was in the Army deployed to the Gulf. We had a short hump back of about 20 kicks but I had hurt my knee the previous day falling of a 113 trying to pee on someone (separate story) Anyway they needed someone to drive a deuce and a half full of water bottles to another unit, offload and take all their trash.

I volunteer just to get out of the road march. Make the drive and start the swapping process. Get finished and the other guys truck is full of boxes of water and mine trash bags. I'm completely full but there is one bag left. He tried and tried to get it in but there was just no room so I told him dude you just have to keep that one. He tossed it in the back of his and we started to leave.

About 10 seconds after we pull away we heard and felt the explosion. We are fine but the other truck is just mangled. Turns out some asshat had picked up what we guess was a bomblet from a cluster bomb and put it in the trash. It was in that last bag. The other two guys in the truck were pretty shaken but the water absorbed most of the blast. Had that last bag made it on my truck I wouldn't be here today.

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I think this is an excellent time to point out that so so many of our young servicewoman and men are injured or killed due to friendly fire and other non-enemy related events. It's a lot folks

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I live in the Netherlands, so it's common to go to school/work on a bicycle. One day maybe 15 years ago I was going to school and just standing at a red light. It turns green, and for some unknown reason I just don't start riding like I always do. Out of nowhere, a car comes speeding by right in my path where I would've been. I never heard or saw it coming, but the collision would've been nasty.

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Trust a green light like you'd trust a fart.

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I was in a train crash. Really badly wounded as I nearly lost both my legs on the spot, both leg arteries broken, almost bled out.

I didn't know that, but apparently during emergencies such as this the responders have to walk through the wreckage and identify people who are done for and those who are worth trying to save. While it totally makes sense it still feels pretty weird that in the condition I was I was probably worth saving just because I was young and fairly fit and healthy at the time, and that a different person could have come to a different conclusion.

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Black is de@d, red is life threatening injuries, yellow is injured, but can wait, and green is if they are uninjured/can get themselves to the hospital themselves

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A wave turned me over while I was about to drown after breaking my neck at the beach. 0/10 experience ♿️♿️

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Car accident Moped vs Oldsmobile

I was the moped driver. Straight road car turns from the oncoming lane across traffic. Being a new ish motorcycle driver (moped) I knew enough to know I was f****d. But instead of putting it down or turning or anything, I took my hands off the steering and wrapped my head as I impacted (no helmet) inverting both knees on the handlebars, breaking the key off inside My right knee, and dislocation of my right shoulder as I spun into the windshield shattering The windshield, and dislocating my hip on the concrete.

My ignorance saved my life. A seasoned rider would have put the bike down and likely been run over. And my taking the hands off the steering saved my fingers, saved my head and neck (to an extent) and the shoulder (my right was the arm that wrapped my head first and the impact dislocation it would have been my head if I hadn't.

Impact speed was 50 miles per hour. Not a single bone broken but permanently f****d my back. And realistically, I should be dead.

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Jeebus! Wear a helmet!

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Was supposed to be in the movie theatre in 2012 in Aurora. My wife and I had gone to the midnight showing of Dark Knight in 2008 at the same theatre. So when Rises was going to come out we wanted to do the same. I’m a huge Batman fan. At the time though I was starting my shift at work at 7am. So I couldn’t see myself going to a midnight show and only getting a few hours of sleep. We decided not to go.

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This happened: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012_Aurora_theater_shooting

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Got caught in a flood during a freak storm, the storm knocked out the cable in our neighborhood. so some guy went out for a smoke after the cable went out and heard my friend calling for help and saved us by throwing us a jet ski rope.

We were stuck in this flood for two hours calling for help, but the heavy rain and thunder totally drowned us out, so if it weren't for the cable going out, we would have definitely died.

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For anyone who had to read that a few times (cuz i had to) OP and their friend were caught in a flood and some rando went outside cuz the TV cut off. Rando then saw OP and their friend and then saved them :)

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I was riding my bike, and it had to be a day where it rained. I was already on the highway, and I couldn't get off due to traffic, but when it started picking up, I started to go faster. I didn't see a puddle coming up, so I hit it, lost control, and I somehow managed to slide underneath a milk trailer while my bike got crushed by the semi-truck.

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I sleep walk/talk.


My house burned down Christmas night when I was 11. It started in my bedroom. There was a crimp in the copper line of the old Humphrey gas heater next to the door. The fire went around the entire bedroom. The bunkbed that I shared with my younger brother was burning.

From what I’ve been told, I had been yelling about it being too hot and woke my parents. When my dad came to investigate, he saw the hallway leading to our room cutoff by the fire. He climbed through our bedroom window to get us out.

I woke up in the front seat of our family station wagon watching our house burn with three crying younger siblings behind me. That old pine house burned fast! It’s the first time I heard the term “lighter wood.”

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My grandfather was a navigator for B52 over Europe in WW2. Completed 18 missions when the war ended. Was scheduled for a flight back to England from France a month later to catch his boat back home. He got too drunk the night before and missed his plane. The plane and crew crashed in the ocean and they all died. Unfortunately used that as his excuse to be a drunk for the rest of his life.

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Sad. Another person might have been inspired to live life to the fullest.

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Semi took the entire side of the car off except my seat. I'm in a passenger seat, and a semi rips the door off, and I'm not even jostled.

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Saw some lady once, in a parked station wagon, open her drivers door wide into traffic... just as a semi hauling an earth mover went by. It quite handily removed the door. I heard the bang, looked up and saw her sucked back into her car, feet tucked up and screaming. Not even scratched.

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Not me but my friend in 6th grade was sitting a couple seats in front of me on the bus. He moved into the seat across from mine so we could trade Pokémon cards with our binders.

Not even 5 minutes later another bus slams into our bus breaking our bus in half at the exact seat he was sitting at. Judging by the bent metal and condition of the seat, he would have 100% not survived that crash.

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Not death, but I did escape a kidnapping attempt when I was 9. It was Halloween night and I was walking home from trick or treating with my friends down a neighborhood road. I noticed a van tailing me a bit, but as I was 9, I didn’t think much of it. Then the van stopped next to me and shined an extremely bright light in my face to where I couldn’t see anything. I stood there for a moment confused, but then a voice in my head said “RUN”. I bolted into a field in my neighborhood that had tall grass just as someone was grabbing my arm.

I never even told my parents. I just went home and ate my candy. This might be the first time I ever talked about tbh. Again not death related though, but it could have led to that.

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I'm glad that they were able to escape from being nearly kidnapped, but a little confused and sad/upset as to why, this 9 year old child, never told anyone, especially a trusted adult, right after this happening. I would imagine that, if I were in this situation, even if I decided not to tell my parents, as soon as they asked how my night was, they would be able to tell by my voice or body language that something was wrong. I doubt, I would have been able to go out alone or with just friends, at the age of 9, anyway.

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Believe it or not but a big stone flower pot thing fell just an inch behind me from above when I was walking in the ancient town of Split, Croatia. First I heard the noise, then I saw my sister en my mom looking at me in shock. And then when I realized what happened and how if I had walked half a second slower I would have probably died or at least sever brain injury that would’ve required surgery. I actually started crying right there no idea why I guess it was more of a delayed startled reaction and tears were the outlet lol obviously physically I was completely fine but I when think back on it it really changed my outlook on life and death and how it can suddenly all be over because of nothing more than a freak accident.

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Was a student pilot in high school and was supposed to fly one Saturday morning. Was lazy and hit snooze, got to the airport late and my instructor said I was too late to fly.

The student in the time slot after me took off in the same plane I would have flown and the engine failed on take off.

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My abuser choked me past unconsciousness, presumably until my heart stopped. Then, I guess he realized he didn’t want to lose his plaything or go to jail, so he decided to try to revive me with CPR. Somehow, it worked. I woke up with him pumping my heart with his hands. I never went to the hospital. 

I don’t know if my heart fully stopped or not, but the fact that I survived that — and his many other horrors — isn’t just luck. It’s a miracle. One that I used to regret, but I am now very grateful for. 

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Parked my car on my slanted unshoveled driveway like a lazy moron.


Sat in it for a minute, it stayed put. Walked outside, walked behind it (downhill), and literally a half second after i was out from behind it, all 4500 lbs of it slid  right past me. Would have pinned me between the bumper and street for sure. 


Now, I street park on level ground, shovel, salt, park, wait in the car, then only walk uphill to go around it. 

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Good to see that, OP learned from such a valuable lesson.

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I’ve shared this a few times, but i had a near death experience of drowning when i was a child. my dad was tossing me gently up in the air so i’d have a little splash in my aunt’s pool, and i kept shouting “higher!” like any kid would. but, my dad is not a good dad, so the last time he did it i remember being tossed high enough i could see the roof of my aunt’s house, and in the free-fall i had time to think “this is gonna hurt, i’m sorry daddy”. i didn’t feel the impact, and i woke up under the water but it was *wrong*. i could breathe the water, it was infinite instead of being able to see the walls and touch them after two strokes, and it was dozens of feet deep instead of the three feet it was designed as. i swam, and swam, thinking i was a mermaid and yet aware i was probably dead, because i knew even by then he’d kill me someday, so why be upset he succeeded. probably better for me. i don’t know how long it felt like, an hour? but eventually a big light was seen above me and asked me if i wanted to stay or go, and i said go because i didn’t want to be alive with my family. but for some reason, i backed down and swam to the surface, and it was so hard i almost didn’t make it anyway. when i broke surface, i was visibly drowning and flailing, but i managed to force myself to vomit and cough out the water by sheet panic as all my dad did was smack my back a few times while my aunts and grandma yelled at me for ruining the water. i got tossed out onto the gravel and took myself inside, and that was it. still here i guess, so must be a reason for it

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Fainting in the hospital saved my life. If I had been anywhere else I would have died. Was even on the same door as ICU where they took me afterwards.

I was in the hospital because it was 2-3 days after having super invasive surgery to remove a tumor from the inside of my spinal cord. They'd worked on my C4-C7, and I will always have an incomplete spinal cord injury. Anyhoo, my left side was numb all over and I couldn't move anything. I'd just gotten my arm to move that morning but still couldn't use my hand. I had to pee and we discovered id started my period in the midst of the chaos, so the lovely CNA's ran over to maternity and brought me back some of those mesh disposable after birth panties with with the pads made into them (as numb as my junk was, they were comfy! Felt like Always brand Infinity Flexfoam pads in the light blue box. I have no kiddos, but mamas if y'all want comfy periods, I recommend those pads!). They had me on this weird sitting walker that had handles like an elliptical machine and a little gate that closed under your butt, and you basically wall-squat in this thing. Took me to the bathroom, got me leaning forwards and kind of standing, we're cleaning up, I'm helping with my good arm, and the dizzy hits as they're pulling the panties up over my a*s. I remember her saying "oh no! Can you stand up straight as you can, and try to lean a little to the right? You're crooked and leaning, honey!" So I did. She asked me if I felt better, I nodded yes but said "but I can't hear anything" andddd next thing i know 3 ladies are holding me and one says "you passed out a little", THEN I was on the bed and the Nurse was doing chest compressions with one hand & reaching for the code button with the other. I just stared til she noticed me, then we BOTH started crying and she was freaking out apologizing while I was freaking out thanking her and hugging her with my good arm. I was surrounded by doctors and hadn't realized because I was so out of it. I was taken to ICU at 4:30am and spent 4 days there, until my heart finally got a little stronger and the spinal shock wore off and I could safely be upright.

That was 7 years ago. I can walk and my left hand works decent but it's still numb and probably always will be. I get dizzy at least once a day, but I just sit down and let it ride until I can get back up again. I have PTSD from the injury and hospital stay, but I'm grateful to be alive. I think about that night a lot. Especially when I do things we didn't think I'd ever be able to do again.

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Get dismissed enough times by enough doctors, and you learn to ignore your body, unfortunately. 

In 2022, I developed a migraine that wouldn’t go away. I’d had chronic pain for almost ten years at this point, so I tried to power through it.

I powered too close to the sun. 15 days in, nauseated and unable to see clearly, I was taken to the ER.

Turns out.my kidneys were failing, and my whole body was shutting down. A decade-old root canal had developed an infection. With no symptoms. And was killing me.

I was in the hospital for almost three weeks. I lost 20% of my body weight, and it took a long time to recover when I got home. 

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Driving at night on a dark, small backroad, trees on both sides. With me were three ladies, who were just telling me that these roads were so dangerous, because this time of year farmers come bolting down roads with their heavy -"who needs lights, YOLO"- machinery.

In the corner of my eye, between the trees, I see a little reflector. The reflector is low to the ground, but suddenly I realize it is moving towards the road I am on, and I brake the car in a reflex. Next thing I know I have to brake completely, because this gigantic dark unlit tractor-trailer turns on the road in a hurry. Nobody in the car realized it was there, and we were all scanning that side road, as we were just talking about the danger. If I would have continued driving, I would have driven the car into that thing without knowing what happened to me.

It reminds me of my colleagues in Africa, who keep telling me I should stop worrying about the trucks you *can* see coming towards you, and start worrying about the trucks you *cannot* see coming your way.

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Tyre popped on a major uk motorway, car flipped onto its side and hit the railing, then slid to a halt in the lane of oncoming traffic. Luckily it wasn’t rush hour and the cars behind us all stopped. An hour or two later and it would have been much worse. Us and kids walked away with bruises.

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Was on a 1000 mile cycle ride for charity. Made it about 900 miles, as a lorry overtook me through a small village in Scotland there was a hanging cable across the road which caught the top of the driver's cab on the lorry, The cable was attached to a telegraph or electrical pole (about 250kg) which was ripped out of the ground. Pole came flying past me sideways and smashed into the lorry. Never felt fear like it.

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I AM A LOLLY SNEK (she/her)

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1000 mile cycle ride for charity??? Wow, that's amazing!

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Back when I was a year or two out of high school, I was riding around town with three girlfriends. We were looking for one of our guy friends to see if he wanted to smoke with us. We hadn’t found him yet, and we were sitting at a red light (heading east). The light turned green, and then my friend who was driving said, “oh is that him at the gas station?” We all turn and look to see if it’s him, and then we realized it wasn’t, so my friend starts to go straight - just as a semi, heading north, blows through the red light. If my friend had gone as soon as the light turned green, we would have been t-boned and probably all 4 of us would have died. Definitely the two on the passenger side. I think about that every now and then.

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Was sitting in the backseat of a 1981 Chevy Citation completely still at a redlight with no seat belt on. A semi hit us doing 60-70 mph and all 4 of us walked away. I had 13 stitches in the back of my head. I have three fun theories 1) I am just too hard headed 2) heaven doesn't want me and hell is afraid I will take over or 3) you cannot keep a good man down. The odds are a mix of 1 and 2.

I have also been held at gunpoint with a 40 caliber Glock to the chest. I got out of that by fighting crazy with crazy. I finally reached up, pushed the gun harder into my chest and asked my ex if she thought that was going to get rid of me. She laughed and said she knew it would. I laughed and said, "no, I will be right back. I will make a deal with the first devil I see." It stunned her so much that she lowered the gun. I took it and left. I sat in my car for 15 minutes or so just shaking. She was untreated bipolar and I really thought I was going to die. The crazy statement I made at the end was just a last second hail Mary to see if it would work.

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Sometimes you've got to climb into their fantasy and start punching holes in it.

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I briefly dozed off while driving late at night one time. I woke up just before a pretty sharp curve in the interstate. If I hadn't woken up when I did I would have driven straight through the curve and into the Missouri River. I've never been a religious person but I sent a little thank you towards the sky that night.

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Never get behind the wheel if you're tired. And if you notice getting drowsy, take a break and only drive again if you feel really awake again. You don't have the right to risk other people's life like that.

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My best was the morning that I showed up at urgent care, then a hospital, featuring a burst pupil, and a fever that should’ve been impossible to survive. I’d been treating some ugly symptoms with the gym for a couple of years, but, however surprisingly, working out isn’t how you fix brain cancer. 

Shortly before that occurred, I woke up one night, to floodlights and tones. I felt so much pain and sickness that it seemed like I’d die, and I didn’t know the woman telling me to come with her. But it felt like it a dream, so I did, and realized as we were climbing into an ambulance that she was the medic I’d been running with for a long time. I still felt awful, but it was a lot better by the time we were on scene. I had to cut a car, and when we drove back, I was feeling well. I still suspect that hydrocephalus would’ve killed me that night, if it hadn’t been for that call. 

For months before that, I’d been losing my radial pulse when holding still too long. 

A couple runners-up: 

-Very first house fire, as a new firefighter. Beams struck inches on either side of me, but didn’t hit me directly. 

-While looking for the source of a fire, my officer and I discovered that we were standing on an incredibly hot floor. 

-Anaphylaxis, from a handful of causes. 

-Before my second craniotomy, medical aid in dying was on the table, as my cancer was expected to be far more malignant. I considered it very carefully. 

-Armed, drunken redneck, who forgot he called 911. 

-Drunk driver deciding to plow through the scene of a vehicle extrication while I was cutting the car. 

-Multiple drunks with knives, and one with a bloody shard of glass. 

-Severe autoimmune disease as a small child. 

-Asthma as an older child. 

-A couple of near-drownings, in the ocean, and whitewater. 

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This person is immortal.

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