Near Death Experiences

[fleming442]

Got one? Got pics? Let's go!
11/7/07: I was on my way to work, decided to roll around a slower car, road was wet, hit a bump, and the rear end came around. Hit a tree at about 80, sideways and backwards. The result: a totaled 95 Civic with 235,*** miles, a helicopter ride, 7 days in the ICU at Shock Trauma, 11 ribs broken off my spine, 4/11 under my arm too, punctured lung, fractured T8, lacerated spleen, 9 stitches on an ear, and 3 months of severe pain and no work.

 

[joesregalproject]

Holy sh*t! 😱 That's a pretty hard one to top! That's my birthday too, 11/07. Eek!

 

[Kennybill]

I've been on the Parent end of a near death experience. I got the call every Parent dreads in the spring of 1999. I could write a book about it, short story, Son and 3 friends went to an Indians game, my Son was sleeping in the rear-seat drivers side. Car went down into median, spun, hit a tree backwards his side. Life flight to Cleveland Metro (the place you want to go for brain surgery in NE Ohio) 21 days in Intensive Surgical Care, then rehab. They have 2 Neurological Surgeons at all times. The first one came in and gave a talk, without saying much. I was in shock. Next Surgeon came in said about the same. I followed him out into the hall, I said, "no bull sh*t, just a father to a Surgeon, is he going to make it?" He said, "if it was you or me, No, but he's young and strong (he was 22) and youth means everything. If he can make it through the next 24 hours, that's the key."
I kept that info to myself. About 32 hours later, the Surgeon came in and checked him. I was across the bed with my wife. He looked over at me and said, "Dad, he's doing so much better today!" That was the greatest thing I've ever heard.
Short story, he doesn't remember this accident/hospital stay, he was in the 2% that make a complete recovery.
All that saying but he is changed. The only way I can explain it is. Two Brothers buy identical cars new, same care everything. At 40K miles, they trade cars. A car guy would notice everything that is different. The same for my Son. He looks the same but he's different. We were extremely close before and during the recovery but after not like before but that's okay. He's doing well and finally married to a beautiful younger Lady and they have 2 Sons. There both Professional people and everything is good.
I always had a feeling something would happen to him and I was a very protective father of both my Children but him especially. I swear, I always knew I'd get a call. Life goes by fast, enjoy it.

 

[fleming442]

Glad your boy made it through, Kennybill. Hopefully, all is well, still.

 

[Kennybill]

Thank you, yes, he's doing good, like it never happened.
Sounds like you had quite an experience with a good ending also. All I can say is you've really experienced pain. I'm hoping you have no long term effects down the road, such as arthritis etc. Your Parents also know what it's like to get "the call." Good luck, Ken

 

[pontiacgp]

1. While in college I was a passenger in a 72 Bug, we his a 68 Buick Wildcat head on. The Bug bounced off the Wildcat and when I work up I was laying in between the cars...got stitched up and went skiing the next day
2. I was on the backseat of a friends bike when car blew a stop sign, I bounced off the guys hood and was pissed off cased my new jeans were ripped
3. Working in a club and due to an incident I had a hit put on me, the boss of the club sent me out of town for the weekend while he sent Doug and his Irish friends to straighten it up
4. I was driving my 74 GP while living in Florida I slid off the road and into the ditch. About a week later I was told the GP hit hit a culvert and did a 180 turn while it was about 10 feet in the air and when it came down it mushroomed all the new craqgar wheels. They found me on the passenger side laying on the hood, my right leg was trapped in the center console keeping me from being ejected. I guess my seat belt might have helped. They towed the car back to my parking spot at the apartments and the superr came in the next day to clean my place out cause from the dmamge in the car she was sure I was dead, I was a hurting puppy for about a week.
5. Due to some medication I ended up with clostridioides dffiicile .aka c difficile, lost close to 50 lbs in a couple of weeks.......over 30 died from that in an outbreak in the Ontario hospitals a few years back

I am living proof only the good die young....

 

[Turbo Zach]

Two weeks ago I spent a week in the hospital. The night I went in they were going to put me in ICU, but they changed their minds. They said if I waited one more day it would have been a bad deal. Prenemona, bad infection though out my body, too low blood pressure, and then I had a bowel obstruction while I was there. There goes the price of another g body. The worst I had was in 2001 when I was 21. I was at a party and I was going to light a bondfire and my friend accidentally doused me with gas when I flicked the lighter. Lifeflight ride to Des Moines. I woke up three months later from a medical coma with a trake, tubes and a vac bandage. I went from 180lbs to 95lbs. I flatlined seven times. Lungs did not want to work, they ruptured my stomach, and I could not hear. I spent six months in the hospital. I recovered pretty quickly and for the most part ok. I have some pretty wicked scares, a herniated stomach, and lost 60% of my hearing, but I am alive and kicking *ss.

 

[69hurstolds]

Two weeks ago I spent a week in the hospital. The night I went in they were going to put me in ICU, but they changed their minds. They said if I waited one more day it would have been a bad deal. Prenemona, bad infection though out my body, too low blood pressure, and then I had a bowel obstruction while I was there. There goes the price of another g body. The worst I had was in 2001 when I was 21. I was at a party and I was going to light a bondfire and my friend accidentally doused me with gas when I flicked the lighter. Lifeflight ride to Des Moines. I woke up three months later from a medical coma with a trake, tubes and a vac bandage. I went from 180lbs to 95lbs. I flatlined seven times. Lungs did not want to work, they ruptured my stomach, and I could not hear. I spent six months in the hospital. I recovered pretty quickly and for the most part ok. I have some pretty wicked scares, a herniated stomach, and lost 60% of my hearing, but I am alive and kicking *ss.

Damn, dude. My hat is off to you. And others too, but flatlining 7 friggin' times and God STILL doesn't want you? You'll be walking the earth when we're all dead and gone. Glad you got to stick around!

 

[69hurstolds]

3. Working in a club and due to an incident I had a hit put on me, the boss of the club sent me out of town for the weekend while he sent Doug and his Irish friends to straighten it up

WTF man! Damn Jimmy!

Closest I ever came to getting a hit put on me was when I bought the 84 H/O and had it dropped off at my Dad's house to try and soften the blow because I didn't tell the wife I bought a car without her knowing. I didn't tell her for 2 months until we went by my Dad's for a visit. She asked if my dad bought an old Oldsmobile when we pulled into the driveway and saw it parked there. I didn't say anything and fumbled around. Then she knew. I saw the glow of red from her eyes because she didn't have to say anything either. I just felt the heat from her stare burning scars deep into my soul. She eventually got over it....eventually...

 

[jiho]

20 years old, I was riding an old Triumph 500, sitting at a stoplight. The light changed and I started through the intersection. Some idiot in a government pickup ran the light where I couldn't see him, the other side of two lanes of traffic that had stopped. I broadsided his right front fender, launched off the bike, did a complete 360* flip over his hood and landed on the street on the other side, sitting there on my can like I just sat down. I was able to straighten the bike out and continue riding, like nothing happened. No helmet.

There are a couple of other "experiences" but that's the most relevant on a car forum ....