Thread: Brush with death

Hi everyone. Just curious if anybody has given death the finger. My story:
I was riding my motorcycle to work and was getting ready to merge onto another highway and a car smashed me an my 2011 Harley into a truck. The bike was totaled, I had 3 emergency internal bleeding surgeries, my right eye socket re-built, right pelvis re-built, a metal plate in my left shoulder, and my man parts are not working like they should. I should be dead, but I guess I bare knuckle brawled the grim reaper and won.

I love how this is in "The Finer Things in Life." Truly - you were spared the finest thing in life lol. Congratulations TT!!

I have battled the reaper a couple of times... A couple of times too many really. Car crashes - to many to really bother getting into. Just know that there has only ever been two cars that I have ever had to get rid of rather than were totaled.

I have a few flying story's but those don't really count as i wasn't in control. Been stabbed twice - shot at, but the closest I ever came was drowning.

Heck now that I think about it - we are a lucky bunch of SOB's .

How long you been using a straight?

The early details had to be filled in by others but apparently there were some severe chest pains. I got in a car and drove 6 miles or so, walked into the emergency room, and had cardiac arrest within a couple of minutes. Next is a large number of paddle hits, a shot of dopamine which missed (read rotting flesh), and a medevac to a larger facility. I woke up after more than a week on life support and couldn't walk without assistance. I lost a lot of short term memory which gradually came back. I'm pretty sure if I had been using a straight then it wouldn't have happened. And the brush with death would have been a nice 2 band Thater.

Glad your alive & hope you heal.

Nobody beats the Reaper, you were lucky.
When it's your time, trust me, he will collect.

I was walking into a sand trap on the golf course and stepped on the head of a rake. The handle swung up and caught me square in the doo-dads. The next few minutes are a black hole.

I was hit in the nether region by Al MacInnis' slap shot. Oh, for the sweet release of Death! I never tried to block a shot after that.

I crashed my bicycle and slid under a hot rod that was revving its engine preparing for burnout. Luckily the passenger noticed it and the driver did not launch.

No comparison to the op, but it scared me pretty good.

A few car crashes. Near drowning a few times, growing up by a fjord, that's not unusual.
And just being in the wrong place at the wrong time a few times.
I got my certificate of death signed once, but all in all nothing to write home about.

Closest I have been would probably be when my leg lost a fight with a chainsaw. A couple of cm deeper and I would have hit my femoral artery and it would have been game over before I could have reached help. In the end it wasn't that dramatic and I ended up with a cool scar, but definitely too close for comfort.

Oh, that and the time I was almost hit by a train. But on the whole, *nothing* compared to what the OP went through!

Originally Posted by Cangooner

Closest I have been would probably be when my leg lost a fight with a chainsaw. A couple of cm deeper and I would have hit my femoral artery and it would have been game over before I could have reached help. In the end it wasn't that dramatic and I ended up with a cool scar, but definitely too close for comfort.

Oh, that and the time I was almost hit by a train. But on the whole, *nothing* compared to what the OP went through!

A TRAIN... now you have to tell us all that story!