<p>When I was 3 years old, my family and I were all packed up and ready to go to England. I was outside playing with a basketball, while my parents were inside getting the flight information, directions, etc. The basketball fell in the pool, and I bent over to grab it when I fell in. My parents couldn’t find me when it was time to go, and they found the bubbles emerging from the pool, and my mom jumped in to rescue me…12 years later, this event is still vivid in my memory.</p>
<p>I haven’t ever been that close to death but I have been close to blindness. About 4 years ago I got a staph infection in my eye. My optometrist thought it was just an eye virus. She gave me a little medicine and a couple days later I lay in bed with the worst pain I have ever felt, literally like my eye was disintegrating throughout the night. I still hate my optometrist for being so wrong. I know they’re allowed to make mistakes but I was almost blinded because of it. Luckily the next morning I went to an actual eye specialist who diagnosed me with the staph infection. Up until a couple of months ago I took a steroid eye drop to make sure that my eye would not become inflamed. I’m off the steroid now and the only signs I have from that nightmare are some scars around my cornea that the eye doctors can see through their machines. Thankfully no loss of vision. But my genes make up for that; my contacts read -7.0 and -8.5.</p>
<p>^ I’ve had worsening astigmatism since I was in kindergarten… that’s why I thought a crocodile was a black rock.</p>
<p>I was diagnosed with cancer when I was 12. If my pediatrician didn’t order an x-Ray at the last second, we would have thought I just pulled a muscle and the cancer could have spread and I could have died.</p>
<p>Was in a plane crash over the ocean. Only survivor, and got washed up to a nearby island. Was there for ~4 years. They actually made a movie about me. Ever seen Cast Away?</p>
<p>^^ What kind of treatment did they give you? Just surgery or medical treatments as well?</p>
<p>Nah but really I lost control of a four-wheeler and hit a tree. Broke my wrist. That’s about as close as I’ve come to kicking the bucket.</p>
<p>143iloveyou, I think you are talking to me.
I’ve had 7 surgeries related to the cancer and I had chemotherapy for a year. I didn’t have any radiation because it was bone cancer and I guess it doesn’t work on that type of cancer.</p>
<p>Oh, okay okay. I’m glad you ended up being alright.</p>
<p>i haven’t had a near death experience. my parents tend to keep me way to safe and close to chest.
igh, i am so uninteresting.</p>
<p>@ nil- </p>
<p>Do you really want a near death experience? Lol.
I can tell you, it’s rarely a pleasant situation.</p>
<p>romanigypsyeyes,it is certainly enlightening. ;)</p>
<p>^trust me, you’ll be much happier if you never have one</p>
<p>Last lap in a race, hot middle eastern day. Decided to not change the balding tires, went around the bend, and the car lost control (tight bend so about 190-210 km/h). Thats when I tried to counter the drift and the steering wheel came off (lol I knew something like that would happen when I bought the car) smashed right into the concrete wall… the scary part was that the engine was right behind me, so the impact threw the entire engine into the cabin! thankfully it only seriously bruised a bit of my right arm…it couldve exploded on me! I **** my pants when I saw the fuel lines spraying about lol</p>
<p>Oh, a girl at my school was hit by a public transit bus cause the thing couldnt stop in time (streets were so iced out) :(( she missed a whole year of school and ended up the valedictorian of the next graduating class!</p>
<p>Ha, I was rinsing myself off in one of those public swimming pool showering rooms in China, and there was pretty much zero light in the place, and a bunch of broken, ancient, and rusty stuff everywhere.</p>
<p>I think I was just walking, and kind of impaled my head on this sharp rod sticking out from the wall (it was actually about waist height and leftover from an old hand-washing faucet, but I was short and like, eight) and knocked myself out. I was losing blood when my aunt comes in looking for me five minutes later lol. She must have thought there was a murder or something lol…</p>
<p>But usually I live a pretty unexciting life. :(</p>
<p>@koing- </p>
<p>You wouldn’t happen to live in Minnesota would you?</p>
<p>Hmm as far as I can remember there was only one time we got even remotely close</p>
<p>We were driving up a mountain road late on a rainy, foggy night when our car stopped moving up and started moving off the slope. Not fun! We finally managed to stop the car and hitch a lift back down to the nearest village, narrowly escaping some drunk guys.</p>
<p>No, the girl’s incident was when I used to live in Canada. The race crash ( 
my car was totalled ofcourse…all that money gone since the insurance company got away with it) was in Saudi Arabia</p>
<p>No experiences as bad as some of these but I have rolled a racecar at 110mph. Rolled 7 or 8 times. Was strapped in pretty tight (5 point seat belt), had on a helmet and 3-layer nomex racing suit. Got out of the car before the safety crew got there (basically 10 seconds after my car stopped moving). I looked at the car and just walked away. The crew towed/carried it back to our pit stall and I just sat in the trailer for the rest of the night haha. </p>
<p>Was pretty sore the next day. Had huge bruises on my chest/abs from the seatbelts, but that was it. Got our back-up car out and I won the next weekend.</p>
<p>I was 14 at the time.</p>