share near death experiences

[Wrapperup]

I was little, and my first time on a quad bike, the gears forgeted up or something and it went full blast torwards the road. Luckily my dad was holding me when it happened. The bike ran into a neighboring house and was completly totalled.

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[sir dooble]

The bike ran into a neighboring house and was completly totalled.

The bike, the house, or both?

[Lord Furdle]

Long boarding down an epic hill with my best bud when I was 14.
He went first, I went seconds behind him. Both having a fun time down this epic hill. Started getting more steep, I overtook him, then heard him bail off behind me, decided I should bail, felt my board wobble under my feet, jumped off. Was going so fast my feet went handicap. Fell on my board as it was still going along, hit my hip on the road, broke it instantly. Still sliding down the hill at epic speed, skin tears down my whole hip area.
Broke my hip so bad that the bone was sticking out with no skin left.
Decided to walk home two miles with my bud.
Still got a cool scar to prove it.
Doubt it was life threatening but I guess if I hit my head instead, I would be ded.

[77x5ghost2]

-holy stuff furdle-

I cringed hhnnnnggg

[WaterOre]

Holy crap, the bone sticking out was the worst part
Still though, how the heck did you walk back 2 miles with a broken hip, especially one broken like that

[querty67]

I have had a few near death experiences
1. When I was 2 years old I stuck a fork in an electric socket and got close to dying from electrocution but luckily my parents were around at the time
2. Falling down the stairs a lot when I was younger
3. An direct collision (Drunk driver) almost happened a few years ago and if my mom wasn't paying attention I would not be here today
And well the last one was with one of my dogs who is no longer with us because he was just plain agressive and well he almost bit my face off (I did nothing to provoke him) and well my mom got stitches on her face because of him

[Master Shadow Phoenix]

I almost drowned in a pool when I was 8.

[Destroyer]

Holy crap, the bone sticking out was the worst part
Still though, how the heck did you walk back 2 miles with a broken hip, especially one broken like that

He didn't. At least not with the injury I'm picturing. Need clarification.

Furdle, did you break your pelvis or your femur bone? I'm picturing you talking about a compound fracture of the femur. Basically the femur bone split in half sticking out of your skin. If this was the injury, you didn't walk. Your leg would have collapsed and would have had nothing to support your body.

Or were you talking about breaking your pelvis and the skin being gone enough to see the pelvis bone? That is more realistic to walk with, though still would be extremely painful.

[sir dooble]

I would still expect a 14 year old with a broken pelvic bone to be in enough pain that they couldn't walk.
I know I wasn't the one with that injury, but if it's how I'm seeing it I'd definitely have been calling for an ambulance.

Had I walked home I'd probably have been told off by my parents for not calling for one. z:

[Lord Furdle]

He didn't. At least not with the injury I'm picturing. Need clarification.

Furdle, did you break your pelvis or your femur bone? I'm picturing you talking about a compound fracture of the femur. Basically the femur bone split in half sticking out of your skin. If this was the injury, you didn't walk. Your leg would have collapsed and would have had nothing to support your body.

Or were you talking about breaking your pelvis and the skin being gone enough to see the pelvis bone? That is more realistic to walk with, though still would be extremely painful.

Okay I know you're mr doctor of the forums so let me try and explain what it looked/ felt like. I'll or ice pictures in the morning since it's 5.20am and I am not on my computer.

So basically I could see the bone sticking out my loving side, still to this day, many years later if I feel the scar I can actually feel my bone is a rough instead of smooth like the other side.
I took a picture when I got home where there was a purple colour stuff all over where I could see the bone previously and it'd healed. It wasn't like frickin crazy sticking out or anything when it got all forgeted up.
Surprisingly I didn't feel pain for the few hours after it happened (pls explain why I didn't feel pain after I shredded the skin off my hip bone)
The reason we walked home is because I had no phone on me and I didn't know my parents mobile phone numbers. So I got a bottle of water and we walked home, I was slightly limping but I couldn't really feel much.



I'm not trying to over emphasise the story to make me seem badass, to be honest the worst pain I've had is when I got termite killer in my eye in Africa (had to use a whole bottle of eye contact water to get all of it out) but it would be cool to actually find out why it didn't hurt after it happened. I'm no doctor and I speak with no medical knowledge when I take a wild guess and say that because all the skin was gone maybe I didn't have any nerves there??
Long boarding is dangerous, always wear a condom.

[F3d323]

Long boarding is dangerous, always wear a condom.

can apply to many situations
back when i was 5 i got some bacteria or something i dont remember from unclean water or something
i was staying in venezuela for about 3 years so thats the only thing i can remember
apparently the doctors said there was a chance i could die but i am lucky or something and i came out just fine like 2 days after

some other story that isnt mine and probably wasnt near-death
my dad once told me that when he was 12 some 15 year olds started throwing rocks at him while he was riding his bike
in an attempt to get away he made a sudden turn and crashed. he flew all across the street and hit a wall
nothing really happened and some guys came to help him but it may have ended differently i guess

[Destroyer]

Yeah it was probably your pelvic bone then. You would know if you broke your femur bone. It has a fun little thing it does when it breaks. Basically think of the femur like a guitar and the leg muscles as strings. Strings are under tension but are held by the guitar. Guitar breaks, strings pull it together. Femur bone breaks, leg muscles pull the broken bone every sort of way. Btw I have no musical experience so if guitars aren't like that sorry, was just looking to compare.

Anyway. Yeah you probably shredded so much skin off it reached the edge of the pelvic bone and kept going, which would explain the roughness in the bone you can feel today. The discoloration would most likely be from the fracture and bleeding skin. While its normally incredibly painful, the pelvis is basically a big circle, so a fracture wouldn't cause extreme deformation.

(pls explain why I didn't feel pain after I shredded the skin off my hip bone)

To be honest I can't say. If I had to guess I'd say adrenaline would hugely contribute. Also as you said, you probably sheared a good amount of the nerves out of that area which would explain why the cut skin wouldn't hurt as much.

When I was young I stepped on a piece of glass and completely cut the skin between my toes. It was so deep I cut the nerves and didn't even feel it. I only noticed when I looked behind me and found a large trail of blood coming from my foot.

So I would say you didn't feel much pain because a combo of no nerves left and adrenaline. 

[SWAT One]

I almost stumbled in front of a New York subway once.

Idk what've killed me first, the oncoming train or the 3rd rail.

[Pngu12970]

I fell off my chair, i was sooo close to ded umg

[jarelash]

I almost got hit by a truck when I was crossing the road on a bike.