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Stolen from ML, have you ever thought you were going to die?
I was in a couple really bad car accidents, but I never thought I was going to die. When I was 17 though my parents and I went white water rafting down the Ocoee in GA. It was a course with 4 & 5 rapids. During the part of the river that had 4 back to back 5s and one 4 my mom fell out of the raft after the first rapid. I guess I thought I would grab her and I fell out too. I remember lifting my feet like you're supposed to do and then literally thinking "well Lord, I guess this it." I went over two rapids in the water and then the guide was able lift me back in the raft, but then the worst part happened. The guide had to sit on me to keep me from flying out of the raft again. The rafts are designed to fill up and then dump all of the water, so I was still basically under water, but under the guide. I couldn't breath and I couldn't move and water was everywhere. I was beating the guide with my arms and legs, but he couldn't move or it would've gotten worse. I thought I had been rescued just to die in the raft. Once we finally got over all of the rapids we were able to pull over because there was this visitors center/lookout area right there. The guide was able to get my mom back in the raft before me and she had to help steer them while rescuing me. The guide later told us that it was the scariest rescue he ever had to do in the 20 years he had been a guide. Everyone was freaking out and it turns out that I busted up my ankle really bad. I sat in the bus the rest of the day and I will never get in a raft again.
Have you ever thought you were going to die?
Re: Stolen from ML, have you ever thought you were going to die?
Almost every morning driving down I-95.
On a serious note, I was 17 or 18 & I was at the barn riding my horse. It was a pretty warm day out & I'd just been prescribed Adderall. No one told me to drink more water as Adderall dehydrates you (my idea of hydration in HS was Diet Coke). I was almost done with my ride. Nothing unusual or extraordinary about it. I was coming down a line of jumps, landed from a jump, cantered on a few more strides & the lights just went out.
I woke up on the ground with my horse sniffing my face. I couldn't move. I felt so weak & didn't know what was wrong with me. I wasn't sure if I was hurt, but I couldn't make myself get up. I probably laid there for 15-20 minutes before I somehow managed to get up & walk the 1000 ft back to the barn where my cell phone was. Thankfully, my horse was an utter saint & he just followed me like the big puppy dog he was.
I called my mom & she came to get me. I'm not sure how, but she managed to untack my horse (which she'd never done) & put away my stuff. It definitely scared the living bejesus out of me.
I'm really, really lucky to have been riding my angel & not one of the evil ponies I'd been schooling. Lord only knows what would've happened to me then. I could've been trampled or something.
Once, very briefly. A little back ground first though. Once when I was younger, I vaguely remember a really bad accident on the news where some kids (all wearing seat belts) hit a huge oak tree at a high speed and they all died. My dad in casual conversation made a comment about how a large tree is probably one of the worst (non moving) things you can hit because they don't give. I remember him saying that it was probably worse than hitting a brick wall. For some reason that stuck w/me. In the head of young Christie, hitting a tree = death, which of course is not at all what my dad meant. lol
Anyway, I was in 8th grade and my sister and I were driving back from Miami. Long story short, we were probably going 70 on a dark 2 lane country road and a opossum crossed the road. My sister swerved, then over corrected and we shot off the road and headed straight for a huge tree. I just remember in that split second remembering the accident on the news and thinking, "Well here we go. This is it."
In reality of course, we were completely fine. We totally slammed into it, but it was a big pine tree and gave a little. We flipped end over end (like back over front) and were dangling in our seat belts with some scrapes and whiplash. My poor dad had been driving in front of us and saw it all happen in his rear view. He was fllipin hysterical when he got to my window, but luckily saw very quickly that we were ok. Then he called my mom (who was still in Miami) to tell her what had happened and since we were out in BFE he only got,"The girls were in an accident" out before the phone dropped the call. Yeah....clearly she was hysterical as well until he was able to call back.
OMG, I can't imagine being your dad in that moment. He must have been terrified.
Pants, I went mudding in HS too. We should start a support group.
Confession: I have never been mudding. Any other place it wouldn't be a confession, but I feel like that puts me in a minority in this part of the state.
I'm also fairly certain that I was about 3 sec away from being abducted and raped and/or murdered...but luckily I'm super paranoid and had my wits about me.
There was also a time in college when one of my roommates and I were quite certain a psycho was breaking into the house to kill us. I had a huge steak knife in my hand and she had 91 dialed on the phone before we realized it was just my sister.
Oh man. You lived in Tallahassee for how long?
7 years. I grew up in CFL.
I actually almost did die. I don't remember any of this, but this is what I've been told by multiple people.
I was walking down Tennessee St, which is right off campus, at about 11:30 at night. My roommate and I were coming back from CVS. We were right past a light and it turned yellow. A car decided to do a u-turn at the same time a guy in a truck decided to speed up to run through the yellow light. The hit each other and the truck came slamming into me on the sidewalk.
I was in the ICU for a few days and then stayed in the hospital for another week. I had two skull fractures and my brain was bleeding. There was a while there where they thought they were going to have to surgery.
Even though I don't remember any of it, it scares the crap out of me that this happened.
I was getting onto San Jose from 295. The roads were wet and when I slowed to take the turn, I hydroplaned and started spinning. I managed to land right between the barrier and a tree without hitting anything or going into the retention pond, thank goodness, but all I could think of when I was spinning was that my biological father was killed by hydroplaning into an irrigation ditch and that my mother was going to lose me the same way she lost my father. Worst thought ever.
When I was in high school my friends and I went to the beach one day. One of the guys and I got caught in a rip current, so another guy came out to try to save us, and he got caught too. We all ended up having to get rescued by the lifeguards!!
I remember swallowing a lot of water, and not being able to breathe... it was very scary!!