Did you ever KNOW you were about to die?

[Tone Capone]

I don't mean like "I think I might die" I mean "Man, so this is it..."

I got really sick last week and ended up having to go the the Emergency room a couple times, on the last visit the Dr told me that I needed some fluids so they hooked me up to an IV and I was chillin there and when the first bag was done, I felt much better... still sick as fuck but, much much better. I actually sat up in the bed I was in and was like "wow... I haven't felt this good in 2 days!" so I asked for some magazines to pass the time because I was bored and they said I needed another bag of fluids so they get the magazines the dude swaps out the bags and I'm chillin and he leaves the room, a moment later I see something in the corner of my eye. All these bubbles start coming down the tube and toward my arm!!! I always ~KNEW~ that if one bubble went into your blood stream, you would die!!! Then I figured "naw there is some kinda mechanism in the IV that would certainly make sure that now bubbles went in". SO I'm watching all these bubbles and they go RIGHT INTO MY ARM!!!!!! I couldn't believe it!!! I was going to die! From bubbles... whoa. SO I'm sitting there thinking about what I should do. Then I kinda think that there isn't anything I CAN do because the bubbles are already in my system! So I just sit there and decide not to yell or anything and just kinda wait to die.... LOL.... then a doctor walks by my room and says "Hey how are you feeling?" and I answer "fine Sir... by the way, a bunch of bubbles went into my arm and I was wondering..." he cuts me off "don't worry, that whole line can be full of oxygen and you'd be okay, only in the movies do people die by a bubble entering their IV. It's a very common concern here" then he laughs and I laugh, then go back to reading my magazine.

[Lex Diamonds]

I was out in my friend's car on the DAY he got his license and the day he had bought the car.. it was like 2am and we were cruising around for quite a while cuz he was doing some dealing and I was doing some smoking... and we came to this part of this quite small road where there's like a barrier directly in front of you so you have to go real slow and turn 90 degrees then 90 degrees again to get past it and carry on... and as we're coming up to it he decides to speed up to about 60mph and he fuckin' took it like "BAM-BAM" (right-left) on the steering wheel. As soon as he made the first turn I felt the car tipping over and I thought for definite we were going to hit the barrier. I was like "Oh man what a shit way to die"... then we felt/heard a huge BANG but we were still alive and moving forwards... turns out we went up on two wheels and the wheels were actually high enough to clear the barrier. The BANG was the wheels on my side hitting the road again. But fuck me it was scary and I shouted insults at him for about a minute afterwards.

[Tzar]

I was out in my friend's car on the DAY he got his license and the day he had bought the car.. it was like 2am and we were cruising around for quite a while cuz he was doing some dealing and I was doing some smoking...
you wonder why people here dislike you; is because include un-necessary shit to make like that to make yourself the sickest cunt on this board.

[Pres Zount]

Tone, I was going say you can't die from bubbles, so don't worry, you're not going to die.

but since you are here typing this thread, I guessed you probably know that now.

[icy manipulator]

yeah i was 10 or 11 coming back from Indy one day and my friends dad who was driving was pretty tired so he was speeding quite a bit. anyway he dozed off and we ran into one of those reflector posts on the highway, and my door was the spot where the car hit. we spun across the highway. it scared the shit out of me. i was thinking we're either going to have a high speed roll or someone's going to hit the car at 100km's an hour. luckily we just spun into the median strip of the highway and after the adrenaline wore off we drove the rest of the way back to brisbane

[Tone Capone]

Tone, I was going say you can't die from bubbles, so don't worry, you're not going to die.

but since you are here typing this thread, I guessed you probably know that now.

:) :o

[icy manipulator]

PS - Interesting yet pointless fact 529: it was Wes from Totally Wild's dad driving. the dude who was on Big Brother 2004

[Lex Diamonds]

you wonder why people here dislike you; is because include un-necessary shit to make like that to make yourself the sickest cunt on this board.
What the fuck is your problem? I said we were out late because he stopped the car a few times so I could smoke. The fuck are you talking about? You completely ignore the entire story just because I mentioned that? It's you that's talking the un-neccesary shit.

[Tzar]

i did read the story, and after reading it, i figured the story didn't need the include the fact you're such a hard cunt.

all you coulda said was 'me and my mate were out cruising - it was late and the first day he got his car/licence. he lost it (*details*) and we nearly got fucked up."

[Lex Diamonds]

i did read the story, and after reading it, i figured the story didn't need the include the fact you're such a hard cunt.

all you coulda said was 'me and my mate were out cruising - it was late and the first day he got his car/licence. he lost it (*details*) and we nearly got fucked up."
There's nothing hard about smoking. Most of the stoners I know are big pussies. I'm sorry I mentioned it, next time I'll get you to write my stories for me.

Bellend.

[Nivvie]

"don't worry, that whole line can be full of oxygen and you'd be okay, only in the movies do people die by a bubble entering their IV. It's a very common concern here"

OK, so a drip works by gravity, and so the bubbles are unlikely to enter your system, but just go back up the tube. Yes, this is true, but with an in-situ line, say for painkillers, if you forced a syringe of air into the vein, then yes, it could kill you.
An 'air embolism' (go Google that and you'll get a bunch of complications it causes such as brain damage and heart attacks, and the chances are, some case reports) really can kill you. It's rare, but it CAN happen. I have seen it, but it occured with a patient who was in intensive care, so was discovered quickly and they were fine.
I hate to get all smart arse-y, but I'd hate to think anyone now thought it was OK to inject themselves with air for a giggle.

[QueenAdrock]

On a side note, did you get really, really cold when they put the liquids in you? When I had an IV drip, I got freezing and my skin got clammy. Which I guess I should have expected, but didn't really think about it.

[steve-onpoint]

I don't mean like "I think I might die" I mean "Man, so this is it..."

I got really sick last week and ended up having to go the the Emergency room a couple times, on the last visit the Dr told me that I needed some fluids so they hooked me up to an IV and I was chillin there and when the first bag was done, I felt much better... still sick as fuck but, much much better. I actually sat up in the bed I was in and was like "wow... I haven't felt this good in 2 days!" so I asked for some magazines to pass the time because I was bored and they said I needed another bag of fluids so they get the magazines the dude swaps out the bags and I'm chillin and he leaves the room, a moment later I see something in the corner of my eye. All these bubbles start coming down the tube and toward my arm!!! I always ~KNEW~ that if one bubble went into your blood stream, you would die!!! Then I figured "naw there is some kinda mechanism in the IV that would certainly make sure that now bubbles went in". SO I'm watching all these bubbles and they go RIGHT INTO MY ARM!!!!!! I couldn't believe it!!! I was going to die! From bubbles... whoa. SO I'm sitting there thinking about what I should do. Then I kinda think that there isn't anything I CAN do because the bubbles are already in my system! So I just sit there and decide not to yell or anything and just kinda wait to die.... LOL.... then a doctor walks by my room and says "Hey how are you feeling?" and I answer "fine Sir... by the way, a bunch of bubbles went into my arm and I was wondering..." he cuts me off "don't worry, that whole line can be full of oxygen and you'd be okay, only in the movies do people die by a bubble entering their IV. It's a very common concern here" then he laughs and I laugh, then go back to reading my magazine.

Yo, I'd prob bug watching that happen to me. Thanks for the scoop on IVs. :rolleyes: :p

Good to read you're feeling better.

[steve-onpoint]

I definitely put my life in jeopardy every day in Hawaii. I set out with friends almost every morning to engage in some high adventure shit. We were climbing across waterfalls with absolutely no safety equipment. Which def brought me to reworking the old phrase If all of your friends jumped off of a bridge, would you? to If all of your friends crossed through waterfalls with absolutely no safety equipment, would you? The answer is 'Yes'. :o

I'm off now to go drink a bottle of rubbing alcohol (sigh).

[Tone Capone]

On a side note, did you get really, really cold when they put the liquids in you? When I had an IV drip, I got freezing and my skin got clammy. Which I guess I should have expected, but didn't really think about it.

The first bag I didn't notice much because I felt like crap, afterwards I felt great! It was the second bag that made me feel strange. It was probably because I thought I was going to die and was trying to be brave about it but I got really hot:)


Yo, I'd prob bug watching that happen to me. Thanks for the scoop on IVs. :rolleyes: :p

Good to read you're feeling better.


Thanks man. I'm kinda glad for the experience... the strange thing is that, I don't have the "new found appreciation for life" that some folks talk about after having a "near death experience". I feel great today though:D

[guerillaGardner]

I almost died due to a lack of punctuation and paragraphs. It happened just a few minutes ago while reading this post.

But, yes, I've felt very close to death a couple of times. Strangely, such situations are the most alive I've ever felt.

[iceygirl]

yes

[Matt]

i almost died today when my car got fucked.

[Pres Zount]

^ By another car? Up the tail pipe?

Shit, Nivvie, I was THIS close to jabbing my arm.

[Bob]

up the tailpipe = no...volkswagens i guess

[Matt]

^ By another car? Up the tail pipe?

Shit, Nivvie, I was THIS close to jabbing my arm.

Actually on it's side. the passenger side. now I have no car.

[hitmonlee]

yeah... one time

a guy broke into my bedroom
i thought after he was done with me he'd kill me, i spent the whole time thinking "this is it, my parents are going to come back from holiday and find me dead"
during the same incident, i was having trouble breathing, due to tape on my mouth, and me panicking, i couldn't get enough air through my nose, and thought i was going to die from lack of air.

icy: wes was such a nice boy. perfect private school type you'd take home to your mother (y)

tzar: stories are more interesting if you don't leave details out because you think some kid on a messageboard might judge you

[Lex Diamonds]

^ What happened with the guy in your room? That sounds like a fucked up crazy story.

Don't leave out the details, we won't judge you!

[Rock]

Once I was in Miami and I did too much of something and I thought I was having a heart attack. At one point I was taking a cold shower to cool down because my body temp was rising fast and I said to myself "This is it. This is how I'm going out. This is the end of ME" I even called my dad that was in the hospital to tell him that I loved him just in case I didn't make it through. Looking back at it now.....I laugh. And then get embarassed.

[Tzar]

tzar: stories are more interesting if you don't leave details out because you think some kid on a messageboard might judge you
i don't even understand this. and saying "btw i was smoking and my mate was dealing" isn't details - it's just wank fodder for us because padster is so hard.

[Nivvie]

The only time I've ever been 'touch and go' I was a small child, and so had no idea.

I really thought I had killed my brother though, we were playing with a drill like it was a gun, and I managed to drill a small hole in his belly. He passed out, I thought he was dead, it wasn't pretty.
However, when I was four we were playing on a building site near my cousin's house in Glasgow and he cut my thumb off with a broken bottle, so he deserved it really. I still don't have full movement or feeling.

[Tone Capone]

The only time I've ever been 'touch and go' I was a small child, and so had no idea.

I really thought I had killed my brother though, we were playing with a drill like it was a gun, and I managed to drill a small hole in his belly. He passed out, I thought he was dead, it wasn't pretty.
However, when I was four we were playing on a building site near my cousin's house in Glasgow and he cut my thumb off with a broken bottle, so he deserved it really. I still don't have full movement or feeling.

JESUS CHRIST!!!!! :eek: :eek: :eek:

[Nivvie]

The odd thing is, we get on realy well. Both things were total accidents. He even tried to hide the hole in his belly from my parents so I wouldn't get into trouble, but his clothes were covered in blood and he couldn't stand up straight, which gave the game away.

[Lex Diamonds]

i don't even understand this. and saying "btw i was smoking and my mate was dealing" isn't details - it's just wank fodder for us because padster is so hard.
I didn't say btw YOU FUCKING IDIOT. I was EXPLAINING THE REASON WE WERE OUT LATE AND THE REASON HE WASN'T SO RESPONSIBLE AT DRIVING.

Hope that makes it simpler for you.

[na§tee]

nivvie is a total hero!

[Pres Zount]

The only time I've ever been 'touch and go' I was a small child, and so had no idea.

I really thought I had killed my brother though, we were playing with a drill like it was a gun, and I managed to drill a small hole in his belly. He passed out, I thought he was dead, it wasn't pretty.
However, when I was four we were playing on a building site near my cousin's house in Glasgow and he cut my thumb off with a broken bottle, so he deserved it really. I still don't have full movement or feeling.

hahaha that's awesome!(y) (y)

[ericlee]

when I was 9, I had scarlet fever and chicken pocks AT THE SAME TIME. My fever was running up to 106 and I had to be rushed to the E.R. to be placed on ice.

I really can't remember much of it but the doctors were telling my Mom that I may not make it through.

[Helvete]

I can't die, but I've probably almost killed my sister a couple of times. I smashed the front window of my dad's BMW years ago with my sisters head, I thought she'd kinda fall away and have part of her skull stuck in the window, but nah, she was okay.

I'd like to have a close call one day though, because then I could say "Yo, I almost got blown to fuck there", and people would be like "cool, you're pretty hardcore", and then I'd be like "nah, it was nothing".

[RaZoRbLaDe KiSs]

I landed myself in the emergency room about a year ago because I had this really bad pain in my side, when I was there they did all kinds of test and stuff, and I sat there thinking alright, I'll be out of here in a couple of hours, they'll just give me some med's and i'll be outta here. The pain was so bad, it was almost unbearable, then people came in and out of the room, running tests, and drawing blood, then they took me up to an actual room, and told me that I'd be staying there for a while, they had to move me and everything and it just made the pain worst, I was so upset, and I could hardley breath, I couldnt turn on my side because the pain was so bad, Then the next day the docter comes in and tells me they found something wrong with my blood, something rare, something that no one in my family has except me. The first couple of days I was there I was sure I was going to die, I've never been so scared in my life. I had docters coming in and out asking me a ton of questions, telling me that what I have is life threatening, and that if I go about it the wrong way I can die. That just made it worst, to this day Im on a medicine that makes my blood water thin, If I get cut I bleed and bleed, i can bleed to death if im not careful. I need to go for bloodtests once every month, so far the problem is cured, hopefully, they need to run some tests in november to make sure that Im ok, and after they do im getting off the med's but if the problem comes back im going to be on this medicine my entire life. I cant even have kids while im on it because if I do the medicine will abort my baby, It'll pretty much destroy it. :(
Good times good times... I dont know why I didnt die, really...

[hitmonlee]

^ What happened with the guy in your room? That sounds like a fucked up crazy story.

Don't leave out the details, we won't judge you!

sexual assault, no rape. he got away with it because i never saw his face, and he didn't leave any dna. was ages ago now. i think he was going to rape me but i managed to talk him out of it and he just left *shrug* not sure what his purpose was in entering my room, the tape he used on my was tape that was kept in the shed (next to my room) so it didnt seem very premeditated.

[Helvete]

sexual assault, no rape. he got away with it because i never saw his face, and he didn't leave any dna. was ages ago now. i think he was going to rape me but i managed to talk him out of it and he just left *shrug* not sure what his purpose was in entering my room, the tape he used on my was tape that was kept in the shed (next to my room) so it didnt seem very premeditated.
That's fucked up. So they 'caught' him, but couldn't convict him? You should have got some people you know to fuck him up afterwards.

Another time I was making explosives in my garage when I was a kid, I had the pipe in a vice and I was tightening the cap on with a wrench type thing, my sister walked into the garage just as it blew up and send the metal cap flying like an inch from her at much speed. Funny, eh.

[Lex Diamonds]

sexual assault, no rape. he got away with it because i never saw his face, and he didn't leave any dna. was ages ago now. i think he was going to rape me but i managed to talk him out of it and he just left *shrug* not sure what his purpose was in entering my room, the tape he used on my was tape that was kept in the shed (next to my room) so it didnt seem very premeditated.
Shit like this is the reason I'm glad I'm a reasonably beefy man. That would be fucking horrible. I hope you're OK now.