How Did I Get So Lucky To Have You

Life is precious, but many of us get caught up in our day-to-day routines and forget to stride back and truly appreciate what we have. Information technology's far too like shooting fish in a barrel to overlook how quickly things could change — for the worse.

1 of the few times that we doremember not to accept things for granted? Afterward a nigh-decease experience. If you lot've ever had a brush with death, yous know how harrowing it can be. And if you lot don't? Just have it from the post-obit people, who share stories about their scariest "ane 2nd subsequently and I would've died" moments.

Avoiding the Pane

Outside of my higher dorm, there was this "stoop" at the bottom of my xviii-story-alpine building. I was out there sitting on the steps and I got upward for no reason. Every bit presently as I got under the building, a huge sheet of glass barbarous right where I was sitting. Some idiots were messing around on the 11th flooring and knocked a giant window pane out of its mooring.

I was walking into a Miller's Outpost and the 'M' from the sign in a higher place the shop fell down and hit me on the shoulder. It was a big drinking glass sign. I moment sooner and it would have hitting my caput. Because information technology drew blood, the shop offered to give me any detail in the store that wanted so that I wouldn't sue. I chose an awful red cardigan. I was xvi and dumb.

Quick Drop Downwards

My friend and I were taking an elevator downward to the cafeteria in our dorm in higher. For some reason, we were arguing about something when the doors opened, and we ended up hanging dorsum for a second. Then, the lift dropped two floors with the doors open. I still hate getting in and out of elevators to this day and I do a weird "running get-go" every time.

Saved past the Phone

I passed out at piece of work and was sent to the infirmary. They diagnosed a drain on the brain and eventually decided they needed to drill a hole in my skull to drain the fluid. Just every bit they were about to put me nether, the phone rang. It was the Head of Neurology. I actually had a burst aneurysm. According to my dr., I would have probably died if they had started the surgery.

Train Trauma

When I was in inferior high, I was carpooling with some other child and her mom. For some reason I cannot fathom, she decided to race a transit train hoping to get across the tracks before the train stopped traffic. She gunned the car. I was in the back seat screaming, "NO." She hit the train. Considering I was in the back seat, I was injured the least. I had a pointy piece of metal pierce through my jeans. Had she been a second faster, the railroad train would accept hitting us broadside and killed us all.

Against Nurse'due south Orders

When I was in middle schoolhouse, I called my mom on my cellphone during my lunch break because my caput hurt so desperately I couldn't motion. The nurse came and brought me to the office for a checkup while I waited for my mom. The nurse told my mom I had no fever, and that she should accept me dwelling and put me to bed so I could just balance.

My mom watched me get into the truck and decided final minute that maybe we should get to the hospital to exist safety. Past the time we reached the hospital, my temperature was at 104 and I was incapacitated. I had meningitis. If we went home and she put me to bed as the nurse suggested, I probably would accept never woken upwardly.

A Helpful Hangover

I had a bad hangover and was kind of jittery, which in plough fabricated me extra watchful. I was driving home and when the light turned greenish, I started to get. All all of a sudden, a car going virtually 45 mph in crowded city traffic gave no care and went right through the red calorie-free. I slammed on the brakes and felt my anti-lock brakes engage for the beginning fourth dimension in I don't know how long.

The guy missed me by inches. He didn't even slow downwardly. Had I not been hungover, I dubiousness I would take given the cross traffic a second look to see him barreling toward me. He likely would have T-boned me right in the driver'south door. For the longest fourth dimension later that, I've had a hard time stepping into a car, even merely equally a rider.

Falling Pelting and Trees

My dad and I were driving downward the road after some heavy rainfall in Vermont. He was driving, and I was trivial with the radio. All of a sudden, I heard a very loud CRACK, and before I could ask my dad what it was, out of the corner of my eye I saw move. An unabridged tree was falling onto the road. Due to the heavy rainfall, the clay was too wet to continue some trees in place.

My dad stood on his brake, cartoon style, and we slid nearly right into the tree. I heard a pop earlier we fully stopped, and when we lurched back to a full halt, we were both animate hard. My dad got out to cheque the impairment, and the popular I heard was a branch hitting a headlight. It was the first time I'd ever seen my dad call 911. It was and then scary. Information technology could accept been the end of us if he didn't stop to conversation with the waitress after we left the eatery to go home.

Swimming With Alligators

When I was 5 or 6 years old, my family and I were on holidays in Australia. My female parent took me to a beach that is known for being safety, thanks to a cyberspace appliance that doesn't let the sharks in. When we arrived, the embankment was empty which was kind of strange, just we continued on. My mother fifty-fifty swam from one betoken to another. After that, as we were going to the motorcar, we were approached past the beach say-so. They told us to not enter the beach considering a family unit of alligators had entered the water and it was actually unsafe.

An Enlightening Situation

I in one case left a lighter well-nigh a fire pit by error. I had been sitting near it roasting marshmallows. I had to go within to take hold of some chocolate and when I came back out, merely as I was walking back to the burn down pit, the lighter exploded. If I hadn't craved chocolate at that very moment, I very well could have been lit upward like the Fourth of July.

A Missed Moose

I was nearly 6 or 7 years old when my dad and I were driving to his parents summer cabin. Of a sudden, a huge moose ran from the forest, from our right, across the road. I hateful, there's no such thing as a small moose, let's go that straight. But this one was out-of-this-world huge. We avoided hitting it by literally just a second.

It wasand so close that I'm sure we would've hit information technology if either nosotros or the moose gained a 2nd and somewhere. Nosotros would've been dead for sure. Hitting a moose with a car is about surely a death penalty anyway, but that thing was just and then large that there would've been no take a chance. Always pay attending to beast crossing signs by the side of the road.

Dodging Feral Domestic dog Fights

I did some volunteering abroad in a place that had a ton of feral street dogs.Usually, they minded their own business organisation and were hands scared away (I tended to carry a piece of rebar in my haversack for this purpose), just occasionally they would gang up and maul people; especially kids and old people. I night, I got woken up by the sound of a bunch of them barking and howling. I wouldn't have minded, except I too heard the sound of a woman screaming.

I ran out into the street to check it out, turned a corner and saw the biggest pack of them I'd ever seen—like, 30 dogs—all circling around this lady. I started yelling and throwing rocks, thinking they'd scatter… which is when the whole pack immediately turned their attending towards me. They were coming at me with their teeth bared and their ears back. I remember being really intensely aware, thinking: "O kay, I'm going to die right now…"

It was at that moment that a dude in a rickshaw came tearing down the road, flashing his lights and honking. This made the dogs bolt. The driver saved my life, or at the very to the lowest degree prevented a wicked bad mauling. It was a really bully affidavit about how nearly people will do what they can to help you when y'all need it.

Swimming Through a Coma

I was swimming with my dad and my younger blood brother in the lake. We had one of those decent sized blow-up rafts that nosotros brought out to play effectually on. I thought it would be cool to swim underneath the raft and surface on the other side. Well, the tertiary time I tried this, my petty blood brother jumped into the raft and his torso slammed into my head while I was swimming underneath, completely disorienting me.

I call back inhaling tons of water and trying to figure out which way was upwards. Every fourth dimension I tried surfacing, I'd hit the bottom of the raft and become disoriented again. I could experience myself starting to blackness out before I pulled myself upwardly around the side of the raft. No 1 even knew anything was wrong until I started heaving up water and cough.

Sentinel Your Back

I used to work on a farm for a doctor that had antelopes on the property and one of my jobs was to feed them. My 3rd day on the job was my first time actually doing it since all of my coworkers did information technology before. I went out there with the feed and started to pour it out and so that they could eat when all suddenly, my supervisor shouted from the other side of the debate not to plow my dorsum to the male person antelope.

I couldn't hear him, so the first thing I did was turn my back on the male antelope to enquire my supervisor what he said. Almost immediately, I'd realized what I had done and turned back around to see the antelope nigh to skewer me. I jumped out of the way and he ripped the shirt off of my back. Luckily, that'south all that I lost that twenty-four hour period.

Leaving It to Chance

I was with a friend having a beer in a bar on the Koh San Road in Bangkok, Thailand. It was the last week of my bumming around the world and we had a decision to brand. Exercise we get domicile for Christmas or spend it on the embankment in Phuket? Neither of us had been to Phuket and we idea it would be an awesome end to our 18-calendar month adventure.

On the other hand, Christmas at abode with the family was also appealing. So nosotros flipped a coin and went dwelling to the UK. Flipping that coin a second earlier or later could have sent us into the path of the 2004 Battle Day Tsunami. We most certainly would have found ourselves in trouble and our Christmas could have hands been ruined if nosotros had stayed.

A Dangerous Cocktail

I don't know if I would've died, but when I was very small, I woke up in the middle of the night with a feeling like our dog was missing. I woke upward everyone in the house and we went looking for the dog. Somehow, we were all outside when a Molotov cocktail was thrown into the neighbor's house and their business firm exploded. The fire spread to my room and my sister'southward.

If I hadn't had everyone frantically searching for the dog, who knows what would've happened. The dog must have known something was upwardly too because she had gotten out of the business firm and was hiding under a porch across the street. Sometimes, following your gut instinct could relieve your life. Never underestimate the ability of your gut instinct.

The Hitchhiker'south Hail Mary

I was traveling Vietnam on a motorbike when ane day, a boy aged around 16 asked if he could hitchhike on my bike with me to the side by side urban center, which was around 100 km. I told him certain, and around halfway there, I all of a sudden just roughshod asleep equally I was driving forth a mountain road. I was shaken awake past the boy on my bike literally right as I was almost to drive off the edge of the route and managed to swerve back on.

Had I not have let him hitch a ride and had he non realized I'd passed out when he did, nosotros would have both been dead. This was as well the simply day of the trip when someone asked to travel a long distance on my wheel with me.

A Sudden Abrupt Bend

I was driving on a country road at night with a friend who just got his license. He was doing eighty km/h when all the lights died. It was most pitch black on the road. He slammed on the brakes and the car stopped. The lights also came back on and nosotros were greeted with a "abrupt bend" sign and a sheer cliff 50 meters further on down the route with a 30-meter drib off into the ocean. That was scary and a tense ride home.

An Electric Mistake

My boyfriend, myself and a friend of ours were tardily nighttime swimming. Another friend well-nigh knocked an industrial flood light into the puddle while we were in there and he caught information technology past the cord at the last minute. The thought of that particular guy, the class klutz, ending a human being life was funny enough to brand the feel less scary, but all the same. Nosotros nearly freaking died! Wow.

Caught in the Rip Tide

I was caught in a riptide in the Caribbean area. All my friends were on shore. I was waving back to shore to try and signal for assist and my friends were waving dorsum. I was paddling so difficult against the electric current, just panicking. I could feel my trunk giving up with exhaustion. The danger was that I had never heard of a riptide before or how to deal with information technology.

The embankment was likewise littered with no swimming signs, merely a local guide said it was fine. Thankfully, one of my friends decided to play catch waist loftier in the ocean with another friend and got close enough to hear me struggle. He told me to swim sideways, but I was seconds away from giving up. When I finally got to shore, I collapsed from exhaustion and lay on the sand thanking my lucky stars.

Garage Door Disaster

I was about four years one-time when I was playing a game of "slide under before the garage door closes." At 1 bespeak, I got stuck. This was before the prophylactic features of these days. As I was stuck there with the door so heavy trying to crush my bones into dust, I knew I was most to dice. The door was too relentless to fifty-fifty allow me to make noises. Luckily, a postal worker spotted me. She was able to alert the adults within the house nearly me beingness trapped.

A Declining Turn of Events

I accept had numerous bad experiences with bikes, but the near-death experience really takes the cake. It was my dad, my blood brother and me on a trail. We were riding downhill towards a sharp right plough. I was in front going fast and by the time I realized the degree of the turn, it was also late. I did my best to dull down but at this point, I was going about 30 to 35 mph. Somehow, I managed to hit a tree correct in the heart when I made the turn. If I was a few inches off to the left or right, I would take fallen downwardly a cliff.

Shut Call Cutting Wood

I was cutting wood with my dad, and both of us were getting really into the piece of work rhythm. He was cut the tree with the chainsaw, while I was taking the logs he cut and putting them into the wood splitter. I went to catch a log that was a piffling too close to him and he swung around to tell me something. I concluded up getting a nic across my back. I didn't even need stitches, merely lots of those big bandaids. I was about 14 at the time and I call back back now… A second sooner or a second after, and my trunk or my head could have been cut off. Now I merely have a fading scar across my shoulder blades.

A Shocking Situation

I came dwelling from a belatedly night run. My eyes were super itchy and most swollen close, merely I had no idea what it was. I hopped into bed thinking, "I'll slumber it off, she'll be right." I got up ten minutes later to ask my mom what she idea and she said she had never seen it earlier. She idea that perchance we should get to the infirmary to see what they say.

Nosotros wandered up to the counter to permit them know why we were there. The nurse took one look at me, jumped out of her seat, ran out the door to grab me and pull me into the emergency room. Turns out, I was deep in anaphylactic daze and needed three adrenaline shots to get through information technology. If I had just gone to sleep because "she'll exist correct," my airway would've closed and I would've suffocated to death.

Passing the Paris Attacks

I was planning to become to Paris with my friends. We lived in the Netherlands at the time and planned to take the afternoon bus and so we could be there for dinner. But then we realized, if we took the afternoon passenger vehicle, we would take to skip a grade, so nosotros decided to take the next available double-decker. Later that evening, the Paris attacks happened. The restaurant nosotros planned to take dinner at was within the affected area. We were "trapped" every bit the country went into lockdown for a few days, but at least we didn't get ourselves injure or something.

Simply in the Brick of Time

As I was walking downward the street, a builder working on the quaternary flooring of a house accidentally dropped a brick over the edge of his scaffolding. Information technology landed about 18 inches from me. If he'd been almost me in the 60 seconds post-obit, I'd nigh certainly have been hit with it, and in the weeks that followed that concerned me more than than the incident itself.

Condom on the Shoulder

Nearly xxx years ago, my family and I were driving up to Jasper, Alberta in the winter. There was a slow car in front of us, and an impatient driver behind the states clearly wanted to pass. Somewhen, the guy backside united states of america attempted the pass, only on a blind corner—he ended upwardly hitting a logging truck head-on. The ho-hum car in front of us was likewise hit, but my dad took a leap of organized religion and jerked the automobile to put u.s.a. in the shoulder and non in the collision.

This was manner before mobile phones or annihilation like that. I recall my dad and my older brother getting out and going over the other cars to talk with the truck driver. There was this indescribable moment of total silence, freezing cold, and disbelief until the authorities came (which was quite a bit later). I remember sitting in the backseat with my younger brothers wondering what the heck just happened.

Close Call Over Carbs

In that location was a market happening in my town and my family and I decided to go. I had merely bought this lovely olive and red onion staff of life loaf and was walking dorsum over to my family. I stood at that place, proudly property my bread and I felt something hard glide downwards me at a huge speed before crashing onto the floor. It was a huge chunk of scaffolding from the edifice backside me. There was this really unnerving silence afterward as and then many people were looking. I was totally stunned. Driving abode, I saw for the first fourth dimension my dad vehement upwards. Really scary. Proficient bread though.

A Frightening Ride

I was in the line for the Smiler at Alton Towers the day information technology crashed. If I had decided to go to the toilet after the ride instead of before it, I would have concluded upwardly seriously injured or dead. I haven't gone on a rollercoaster since that day.

Clipped at the Crosswalk

I was walking through a crosswalk during the walk light and everything. A guy in a turning lane decided he was simply going to gun it. His side view mirror actually hitting my hip. One more pace and he would have nailed me straight on.

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