Things you survived, but probably shouldn't have

[Flbt]

The last one a uti
I had no symptoms at all. ( for a uti)
I had been spraying and got some chemicals on me. Being stupid I got through and then went an cleand off.
So when symptoms of a infection showed up.
Chills , shaking and sweats I did not pay it attention.
It went septic and a long stay in icu getting all kinds of antibiotics. Had a nurse tell me if I would have waited one more day I probably would not have went back home.
That day a buddy checked in on me called my wife and told her I needed to go to the hospital no matter what I said.
He was right I was not capible of makeing good dessisions at the time.
Him just comeing by and having her take me in saved my life.

That one scared me it snuck up and got me out of the blue

 

[Wooster]

When I was a kid working at a horse farm I turned loose a mare not realizing the dominant mare was coming up behind me to harass her. The one I turned loose immediately spun around and donkey kicked both hind legs, full extension, at the approaching mare with me in between. Her hooves went on either side of my head, each brushing my ears, both directions. By the grace of God I was not decapitated.

 

[Field28]

This past July, I was doing my usually uneventful morning drive to work. The highway that I was on has a 65mph speed limit and is three lanes wide on each side with a cable divider in the grass median.

I had several vehicles around me and was leading the pack. All of a sudden a freak rainstorm hits, the bottom falls out. I feel the back of my truck starting to feel loose, then start spinning. I start to get some control and point the truck towards the median to separate myself from surrounding traffic. It got a little blurry after that, it felt like I had gone upside down, flipped, rolled, whatever. I remember landing hard and heading towards the cables, truck stopped about three inches short of the cables.

All four curtain airbags had blown and I had blood all over my shirt. I get my witts about me and get out, no body damage.

The blood was from the damned curtain airbag....

The truck afterwards...

Turns out when the shop reset the computer after the airbags were replaced I had gone upside down, landed perfectly on four wheels. I told the people at the shop that there's a word for that... SKILLS!
They had a good laugh but truth be told the first thing I put my hand on when the incident had ended was this...

A little Jesus figure that my deer processor gave me last season, I kept it in my center console up until the accident. It goes with me in my pocket every day since!!!

 

[RedTag]

My first marriage, no joke.

 

[Huvius]

I must say, this is the most enthralling thread I’ve ever read on any forum

I encourage all of you to sit down and put pen to paper (or keyboard) and really do your best to describe exactly what your experiences were like.
Some experiences are more difficult to explain verbally than they are in writing so keep at it.
It’s a good mental exercise to transfer thought into descriptive writing.
Extremely therapeutic I’d say..
I have a couple but need to think them through to adequately convey them to a casual reader.
Carry on. I love this stuff!

 

[Excessexpress]

I had a cyclic jam in roll, during a turn.

If you know what that means, you’ll know what two folks I know and respect greatly mean when they said;

1: You’re a dead man walking
2: You had no right to survive that event.

An engine failure was child’s play by comparison.

 

[bigborelover]

Well I had a few experiences in my 17 years.
1. I was 10 years old , I was riding my bi-cycle , lost balance on a patch of loose sand and hit my head on a brick.
2. Our boy scout troupe was bluff charged by a large bull elephant.
3. I was travelling with my parents when our car crashed into a truck taking a u turn the hired driver died while the co-passenger was injured , I had a broken nose from that incident.

 

[K E Johnson]

My first marriage, no joke.

Totally understand that after my wife of 30 years walked away, moved to Turkey and married a Turk in less than a year.
Before she left, she tried to get me to go to Turkey on vacation. I wonder why???? She made three trips there, “just for her” after she left.
We had my first hunt in Africa we booked and that took priority for me. I ended up not going to Africa trying to save my marriage. I will still go at some point.

I spent 30 days in a burn unit after an arc flash incident working on medium voltage switchgear.
A little complicated and technical to go into details here. Ended up with skin grafts over 18% of my body, burns over about 30%.
By divine providence, I made a decision on what I wanted to do first on that gear. I didn’t make contact and that is why I am still alive. It is no minor miracle that someone didn’t die that day.
I went through a year of physical therapy after my burn injury and was the toughest experience I ever went through until my divorce.

 

[bowjijohn]

By far the most dangerous entity I’ve ever encountered are my own shortcomings

 

[Bandera]

I rolled a 4 wheeler at low speed, I had a helmet on, when I hit the ground hard enough that it cracked the back of the helmet. Then the dam thing started to roll on top of me, a backward scramble on the ground and I kicked out with my right leg and stopped the rolling 4 wheeler. I got up took stock of my self, headache and sore knee. 4 miles to get back to the truck. Time to ride. Flipped the 4 wheeler up right and took off. When I got to the truck and took off my helmet I noticed the crack in the helmet. A MRI later revealed a torn PCL in my knee.

I jumped out of a moving truck going maybe 10-15 Mph in high school. The resulting uncontrollable running crash into a pole left me unable to walk for about an hour. No broken bones and I did not hit the pole with my head. All left side impact from upper chest to hip. Could have been DRT.

Also had a “Give Me Three Step’s” moment. I was dating a woman when her ex-husband walked in brandishing a pistol and he was mad. He was also an addict. Interesting how fast the mind process information. I got up and walked out the door, I never said word. Never spoke to her again.

 

[Hunter-Habib]

Well, looking back… a few experiences do some to mind.

1) I killed three man eating Royal Bengal tigers with a single barrel Pakistani 12 gauge & a 7x57mm Mauser. I still don’t know what I was thinking when I went after them with such inferior armaments.

2) I hunted Sunda Sambar and Babirusa in Indonesia without knowing that the hunt was actually illegal at the time. A month after I returned back home (miraculously enough without even the slightest problems), I learnt that my outfitters had been arrested. Considering that the Indonesian government has a reputation for executing people for very little reason, I never set foot in Indonesia ever again.

3) I was nearly killed by a charging bull tusker during an elephant hunt (my third so far) in 2006. I was armed with a .375 Holland & Holland Magnum pre ‘64 Winchester Model 70 loaded with 300Gr Prvi Partizan copper jacketed round nosed FMJ solids. During the hunt, the bull charged after I attempted a frontal brain shot. I fired three more rounds (a full magazine) at the inbound elephant’s skull without being able to even slightly stagger him (I was to later learn that the jackets on the bullets were far too thin & were causing the bullets to break apart on impact). I wouldn’t have survived that day, had Devon (my fearless white hunter) not dropped the bull cleanly with a single frontal brain shot from his .505 Gibbs Vektor Magnum Mauser (loaded with hand loaded 600Gr DZOMBO brass flat nosed Mark 6 monolithic solids). The ordeal made me swear off PRVI Partizan .375 Holland & Holland Magnum ammunition. It’s not a very macho thing to admit to on an online forum… but this incident also led me to develop a subconscious psychological fear of elephants, ever since then. I have never gone elephant hunting after that day. But I sincerely hope to overcome my fears one day, and hunt a huge super tusker in Tanzania.

4) During the Indo-Pak war, I once came back to camp after my shift in night patrol. I was quite shaken to find a fresh bullet hole in the top of my cap. Somebody had taken a shot at me and missed my head by maybe a millimeter. And I wasn’t even aware of how it happened.

 

[skydiver386]

This is what my scariest moment looked like. With over 3,000 jumps, odds are it's going to happen from time to time.

 

[Franco]

I had a cyclic jam in roll, during a turn.

If you know what that means, you’ll know what two folks I know and respect greatly mean when they said;

1: You’re a dead man walking
2: You had no right to survive that event.

An engine failure was child’s play by comparison.

You are indeed, a very lucky (skilled) man.

 

[Hogpatrol]

Does flying a single engine airplane, many times, at night, in IMC, over long stretches of cumulo granite count?

 

[RSL]

Bad motorcycle wreck in '89. Shattered my left femur and sheared the ball off it at my hip. Those were the major stuff. Still paying for middle-aged crazy. New left hip 2 years ago. Lift on left boot to make up for leg length discrepancy.
Basically hit a Honda Accord head on with my left knee. Flew over the Honda and landed on my head. My Simpson helmet probably saved my life.

 

[Hunt anything]

College

 

[Flbt]

Thought of a few more.
Driving a tractor going over a unknown ground hornet nest. Them chasing me cut through tress to get away from them had the roll bar brake a limb off and it hit my head.

Same tractor planting food plots had a wild grape vine drop over me and pin me to the roll bar. Had to run the tractor into a tree to stop it. I was standing up by that time. Had to get a knife out and cut the grape vine it had probably bee in the top of that tree 20 years before it fell around me it was at least 2 in thick

Same tractor right after hurricane mikle moved a tree . The tree rolled limb got slammed down on my upper leg and another part under the tire.
I could not go foward or back with out putting way more pressure on the leg.
The scary part was having to set there with a guy not very experienced with a chain saw cutting through the limb not very far from my leg.


Humm any one want to buy a tractor?
Yea still have it. Just now starting to wonder why.

 

[MauserDuff]

I had a cyclic jam in roll, during a turn.

If you know what that means, you’ll know what two folks I know and respect greatly mean when they said;

1: You’re a dead man walking
2: You had no right to survive that event.

An engine failure was child’s play by comparison.

My pilot in a Long Ranger "lost tail rotor effectiveness". We did 15-20 revolutions and didn't crash. We did go home after that, though.

 

[Flbt]

Does getting exposed to hiv , hepatitis and dammed near every other bad blood born count? + tb?

After something happened and you went by medical.
The last thing you wanted to hear from the nurse.
I would probably go get checked out tomorrow if I was you.
They could not tell any medical problems.
So the go get checked and the tomorrow part was for the worst.

The only thing I ever got was a positive tb and they had me on meds for 9 months to stop development.

I have been scared of that more times than I care to think about.

When my youngest was born she came a bit early. So I had to leave the prison to go straight to the hospital.

The nurse Tryed to hand me her. I no you see the uniform? I not holding her till I get changed and a shower. I am not taking chaces

 

[JimP]

How about just life, from around my teenage years until my 30's or so.

There were things that I look back on and just think in amazement that I am still here with all my appendages. Perhaps a number of scars and a couple of teeth missing but still able to think back on it and wonder just how I got through those years.