Post your near-death experience right now...yes, right now.

[Shaka_Khan]

I never had a near death experience but sometimes I wonder. I was driving in the night on the highway when all of sudden, I saw a slow car move to the front of me. I swerved to the right and barely avoided the other car. There was another car to my left so I had to move to my right. My heart continued to thump for the rest of the night. This reminds me of the movie The Sixth Sense. Of course I'm alive but that movie is creepy.

[Sjakihata]

When I was 10 (or 11) I had a tiny surfboard, with no room for sail. You could be on it, with the stomac facing down. There were some straps you could tighten in order to secure the position, so you didnt slipped down. I did that (stupid I know) and I went floating around the boat. Then all of a sudden a little wave turned me up side down, and I was beneath the board - couldnt get out, because of the straps. I was drowning. Luckily, my father went to the cockpit for a drink, then he discovered me... Thank God for human thirst

[doc_bean]

When I was about ten I was have a bike race with a friend on a bicycle path on the left side of the road, for some reason Io fell onto the street just as a carr was coming. The marks the car left on the street where still visible a long time after.

[LeftEyeNine]

Ever heard of Stevens-Johnson Syndrome ?

http://www.sjsupport.org/

True death experience. Drops you dead by 33%. Your body reacts to a medication/drug you use in a severely lethal way.

http://www.sjsupport.org/htmldata/reactionphoto_1.html

My case was in 2001 april. 32 days of hospitalization with 13 days spent in intensive care unit.

Your whole skin tears apart, look as if you were one of those siege soldiers who had boiled oil poured all over. You can not see, you hardly hear, you can not eat, difficultly drink, nails fall, lungs get really hurt, all your mucus membranes take damage ending up with a drier life for you.

The post-SJS life is quite like taking the pill that takes you to another life. Like a movie slogan, but it is absolutely "forget everything you know" stuff.. Especially if your eyes got involved in SJS case, your life will be harder than ever. There is no cure for ocular damage (like severe dryness, all-time red, vasicularized cornea, full/partial sight loss, eye lid keratinization, ingowing eyelashes etc.), only comfort improving actions can be taken. You easily run out of energy, have problems with weight gain. Your joints and muscles are stiffer than ever, your nails may not be replaced regularly and so on and on...

Death is so easy to come, I was taught, that since that April I never overstate bad things happening. Life is not worth worrying for anything other than your very own existence.

*We were on a bus with my cousin..Bus driver takes a careless throttle, two taxis were barely able to avoid a crush with breaks and manevours.. I was telling her some chitchat..

Cousin : You just saw that we were nearly getting killed ?! We just avoided an accident !
Me : Oh..Well.. If it has to happen, let it be..
Cousin : ?!!

That summarizes my point of view after death touch

[Copperhaired Berserker!]

WOW! That happened? I feel sorry for you LEN.

[LeftEyeNine]

yes, it did..Been 4 years since..

[Dâriûsh]

I'm sorry to hear that LeftEyeNine.




I think my ‘closest call’ was at a student demonstration with my cousin a few years ago. I was hit in the head with a baton by a militiaman in civilian clothes. Ouch...

[Del Arroyo]

Jeezus LeftEye that's pretty hardcore!

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For me, so far, it would probably have to be balancing on the outside of the cargo hold of a really small boat in the middle of the ocean in the middle of the night in between Panama and Colombia, taking a piss. First off, I forgot which way the wind was blowing and pissed all over myself. More importantly, I scrambled back up on top about 1 second before a monster wave. 1 second later and I could have drowned or been eaten by the sharks...

DA

[Proletariat]

My case was in 2001 april. 32 days of hospitalization with 13 days spent in intensive care unit.

I'm very glad you pulled through, LEN.

I worked with a patient who was in a burn ward due to TENS. The ward had to be kept at about 100 degrees because she was a severe risk for hypothermia, since she had no worthwhile skin left to keep her body heat in.

She ended up losing her life and I remember how tough it was for her family. It's very nice to hear how well you did and about your new perspective on life.

Cheers, LEN.

[solypsist]

Mogadishu, Somalia, 1993.

[edyzmedieval]

I'm very glad you pulled through, LEN.

I worked with a patient who was in a burn ward due to TENS. The ward had to be kept at about 100 degrees because she was a severe risk for hypothermia, since she had no worthwhile skin left to keep her body heat in.

She ended up losing her life and I remember how tough it was for her family. It's very nice to hear how well you did and about your new perspective on life.

Cheers, LEN.

100 degrees?! OMG...

Too bad she died....

[Mikeus Caesar]

Me and some friends, on a trip to this computer cafe place, in a minivan. We're messing about, spitting out of the window at other cars. I pulled my head in, but little did i know, there was a large lorry coming the other way. If i had pulled my head in a fraction of a second too late, i'd probably be six feet under right now, pushing up daisies.

[LeftEyeNine]

I'm very glad you pulled through, LEN.

I worked with a patient who was in a burn ward due to TENS. The ward had to be kept at about 100 degrees because she was a severe risk for hypothermia, since she had no worthwhile skin left to keep her body heat in.

She ended up losing her life and I remember how tough it was for her family. It's very nice to hear how well you did and about your new perspective on life.

Cheers, LEN.

Yes, Prole, SJS and TENS are quite alike. I'm not sure if there is a noticable distinction between the terms tough..

My intensive care unit was for 3 patients, however they restricted any access by neither a new patient nor even my mom. It was about 2 days suffering in agony, I was at the edge of going mad that I threatened to walk away in such an almost dead state unless they let my mom in. There was a severe risk of infection since there were nearly no skin left over the upper part of my body, so that they had restricted any and all access.

There are not much words how it feels like when it is burnt out, imagine the worst part of your body involved. Constipation added. There are also patients dying from pneumonia during SJS damage.

One professor dermatologist said that I was given a second chance by Allah. And I'm just evaluating that

Cheers

[The Stranger]

i never had a near death experience...though my head nearly got flattened by the tires of a car, someone attempted to stab me with a knife and i nearly drowned or broke my neck a few times...and not to forget the ussualy nearly-get-hit-by-a-car accidents when i bike to school