Have you ever almost died?

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I almost died by the hands of the ocean.

I was on a wale watch with my parents (i was young then), and I walked to the side of the boat myself (it was a big boat, more like a ship), and the door that normally connects to a dock, latched open, and if I didn't catch my footing, I would have fallen overboard. I still replay that in my head today, it was a shock.

When I was 4 I almost drowned to death. My mean 16 yr old cousin and her friend and my 9 yr old cousin held me under water at the public pool until I went unconscious. I remember the sound of the water filling up inside me and the weird way light looks through the water. They left me on the bottom of the pool once I went unconscious and left. Another teenage girl my cousin went to school with saw it happen and she swam to the bottom and got me. I remember being revived and coming to slung over her shoulder. All I remember is a blonde headed girl in a blue bikini and throwing up over her shoulder when she patted me hard on the back to make the water come out. My 9 yr old cousin thought the whole thing was exciting and told me what happened about the girl rescuing me.

Then 12 yrs ago I was struck by lightning and I think it made my heart stop for a couple seconds. Really bad pain in the chest and couldn't breathe and it was all weird. I have a damaged heart valve now.

Once when I was 11 or 12 I wanted to see what would happen if I poked a knife into the toaster's heating element (I know - stupid! ). Thank God I survived!

Yes when I was born. I was a sick baby.

When I was a child, I had a fever...

A few years ago I wasn't feeling well so I took some Alka-Seltzer tablets. I then went to bed. That night I complained of my right eye feeling wierd and having a hard time breathing.

My mother and grandparent ( we were staying at my grandparent's house at the time because we were getting a house built beside them) Anyway, my right eyelid apprently had swelled up greatly and my throat was closing up. They then took me to the emergency room. It took a while for my grandmother to get ready. Which was bad for me because my throat was closing up more and more. I started crying and stuff that I was going to die and things of that nature. Then we left for the hospital.

When we got there we had to wait in line for a while and then when we got in I took some medicine and the throat started to get less closed up.

It was that same night that I learned that I was allergic to asprin.

EDIT: It was my mother that suggested the Alka-Seltzer, I had taken Alka-Seltzer previously with no bad effects so we didn't know the above would happen.

I got hit by a train

I almost drowned in a motel swimming pool when I was about 8 years old. I didn't know how to swim. I was purposely trying to scare my mom, "look mom I'm getting closer to the deep end!" edging myself as close to the dropoff as I can. Went too far my feet slipped and then I was under, didn't have any breath and was frantically flailing my limbs. Luckily a stranger jumped in and scooped me up. Coughed out a bunch of water, cried for 20 minutes then had a popsicle.

I went into a coma from alcohol poisoning at college. I'd just left home and I'd got involved with a bad group of people who bought me lots of drinks, because I never behaved drunk. Fortunately, they did call an ambulance. Unfortunately, they forgot to include my shoes. The next day I discharged myself from hospital and had to walk 2 miles back to my college in my socks! My parents must have been very worried when they got a call from the hospital at 2 in the morning.

Apparently I almost died when I had an asthma attack when I was three. Don't remember anything about it, though.

Yes, at birth and this past winter due to severe kidney stones.

I don't remember having any near death experiences, but probably the sickest I've been was when I had bacterial tonsillitis a few years ago. I had some hallucinations, which I've rarely experienced.