“Crashed my motorcycle and bounced into the oncoming lane, luckily the oncoming dumptruck had really good brakes. No kidding, where I stopped and where he stopped, the front left tire was less than two feet from running right over the middle of me. That would’ve been an unpleasant way to go.”

“Brain anerusym ruptured, I was on a ventilator for a week in a medically induced coma following the nuerosurgery.”

“Got robbed when I was getting off a bus for my backpack and my skateboard. Got sucker punched and stabbed In the head while they were cutting off my backpack. Didn’t even take my wallet.”

“Last year I was in a head on collision with a semi truck, I lost my left leg, broke my neck in three places + 26 other bone fractures. Fast forward 1 year ( 9 months in the hospital ) and 24 surgeries. I’m able to think and type this.”

“I was climbing up a brick enclosed grill as a child by myself, we used to play on it all the time. I got to the top and a brick came loose, I ended up falling down and landing head first on the brick. It split my head wide open and I would have bled to death if someone hadn’t been walking down the sidewalk that knew my family. They picked me up and carried me down the road to my family who then rushed me to the hospital.”

“Probably the time I was outside of a club in SF and decided to defend a woman who was being attacked. Was able to injure him enough for him to run away, but 5 minutes later he turned the corner with a gun pointed at us. I was sloshed and had no idea, but the woman I defended grabbed my arm and pulled me inside the club and slammed the door shut. We stayed long enough for the cops to come.”

“I’m currently in the hospital for anemia. I’ve been feeling really run down, running out of breath easily, couldn’t sustain physical exertion. Then one night my feet swelled up to unusual size, so first thing the next day i booked a doctor’s appointment. Doc took some blood, ran some tests, the usual. He called me a few hours ago at about 9:30 PM and told me that my iron levels were the lowest he had ever seen and he was amazed i was even conscious. Now I’m sitting with an IV in my arm getting 3 units of blood transfusion.”

“Still recovering from it. Car accident happened in August. Business trip to Dallas, Texas. From what the police report said the coworker driving me ran a red light. We were hit by a sprinter van at 50mph and were slammed into a guard rail. Broke 7 ribs, collar bone, punctured lung, and fractured two vertebrae in my neck. Luckily I’m going to make a full recovery but I have another month in a neck brace. Everyone else involved had minor injuries. Dealing with workers comp has been a nightmare :/”

“I’m a Industrial High Voltage Electrician… there’s been several…incidents…”

“I was walking on some boulders at the end of the beach before I got hit by a rogue wave and rolled down sharp barnacles for about 10 seconds. I swam back to shore safely and went to the hospital, luckily I had no broken or fractured bones. Less than a week later two guys got knocked down the exact same way and one of them ended up dying.”

“Ruptured ectopic pregnancy leading to massive blood loss. Did not enjoy, do not recommend.”

“When I was around 8 or so, I was walking home from school alone. I was about a couple of houses away a truck suddenly pulled off the road in front of me. I was walking on the side of the road towards oncoming traffic, so this person had to cross the lane of traffic to do so. The door opened and paused. All I saw was an arm with a glove on. Fight or flight kicked in and I immediately yelled “Hi Mom!” and started to wave. Now I was a latch key kid. There was no way my Mom was home. As I walked past, I started to then run in a dead sprint I was about 2 houses away. The door suddenly shut. The truck then sped off. To this day, had I not yelled. I know I would have been on a milk carton or some Pedo psychopaths toy.”

“Hypothermia when I was hiking alone in the middle of December and I slipped and tore a muscle in my leg. By the time I got home, based off my symptoms, I was hours away from death. Gotta admit, not a terrible way to go. I mean, it sucks at first, but after a bit, not bad.”

“Me and my buddy were like 22. We decided after work to drive about 400km to reach the sea(after 14h shifts). We fall asleep 2 times during drive. We survived and never again drove being so tired. Never again.”

“Died on the surgical table, twice. So, pretty damn close.”

“By giving birth ironically. Placental abruption. Both of us were dying but thankfully we are still here.”

“I never knew I was allergic to something or even if its allergies to begin with. One night I was sleeping and my throat swelled up in my sleep and I stopped breathing. I woke up panicking not knowing what was happening. I was gasping for air on the floor and somehow rushed to the bathroom I used my fingers to open my throat from my mouth to breath. Turns out my uvula expanded to 5 times its size. This lasted for 2 hours or so. “