Near Death ExperiencesLast time I crashed my bike, as I flew through the air towards the car in front of me not much went through my head apart from "You idiot". No tunnels, no lights to stay away from, no smiling family members beckoning to me.
Surely you've had a better near-death experience?
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chthonic, Thu 25 Nov 2004, 11:35)
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Slo-moI was in a car with 3 of my friends a couple of years ago, when the girl driving decided that as we were on a nice long straight country road that she'd weave back and forth across the road for a bit, just for fun....
Turns out it was a bit windy.... The car fishtailed, hit the bank at the side of the road, rolled over 7 or 8 times, went *through* a tree, then ended up upside-down in a field full of stinging nettles.
The most bizarre thing was that it all went in slow motion and none of us in the car can recall hearing anything at all - obviously we had some kinda sensory shutdown as part of the instinct not to die, but although we easily could have, the worst bit of the whole thing was having to crawl out of the car through the field of nettles. The pain of thousands of stings was indescribable.
I thought I'd just been a bit winded so didn't actually go to hospital, but turns out 3 weeks later when I went to see my GP with chest pain she thought I might have got a PE (blod clot in your lung, often = death)... Sent me off to hospital where thankfully I only had a couple of fractured ribs and pneumonia. Nice.
Woo, first post!
(, Fri 26 Nov 2004, 13:39, Reply)
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