The scariest moment..

Lollipops23 · 20-05-2016 07:59AM

Being with my cousin when she had her first seizure and stopped breathing- we were both 13 and had decided to go shopping in town with our 2 similarly aged other cousins, so no parents around.
None of us knew what to do- I can still hear one of the other girl's screams as her lips turned blue from lack of oxygen. Thankfully a passing nurse stopped and rang an ambulance, got her into recovery position etc.
Only lasting side effects was a nasty concussion from when she hit the deck and it's only happened once more in the 15 intervening years.

_Brian · 20-05-2016 08:12AM

More of a shock than scared but when working maintenance years ago the chap working on the machine next to me trapped his hand in the machine. He literally caught his hand between two plates and squashed it down to 5mm.
The absolutely delirious screams from him as we took what remained of his hand out. They patched his hand back together but he never recovered much use if it or the fingers. He was wearing laytex gloves which didn't puncture, so he just had a big blob of blood and flesh In the glove on the end of his arm, it was awful stuff.

ted1 · 20-05-2016 08:20AM

I've two.

First one was waking up just as the mini bus we were in was flipping over and rolling down a embankment. I smashed the window with my head and missed rocks by milimeters , extremely lucky to have got away with my life,

The second one and by far the worst was when our 4 week old had the whooping cough and turned blue when we were bringing her to crumlin. The misses was driving and i was in the back with her getting her breathing again. Touch wood she's being perfect sense.

failinis · 20-05-2016 08:43AM

I remember choking when I was about 7 or 8, only my elder brothers were home at the time and I can vividly remember them trying to get it out.
They were panicked and tried hitting me on the back (I think thats only for small babies) and then when that did not work the hemlich.

That did not work for ages, and I could start to see black, kinda like tunnel vision and an extreme feeling that "I am going to die" when everything went black. It was bizarre because I was very scared, but when it started to go black I felt calm and accepting of it. That scared me more when I think back.

Thankfully one of the hemlichs worked, woke up vomiting. Then was shaking and crying for about 2hours and then got shouted at to shut up because mum and dad were coming home and they can't know about what happened.
They still don't.

Its one of the few things I can remember very very clearly.

Similarly, before I was born, one of my brothers went swimming with the neighbours and apparently nearly drowned but only my siblings know about it, not my parents :pac:
We are all safe now touch wood.

silverharp · 20-05-2016 09:28AM

pone2012 wrote: »

What's the most frightening thing thats happened you??

Mine was when the bus I was travelling in swerved and almost dropped into a Valley there was a few hundred feet drop on either side and the bus went up on two wheels and we literally looked down at death...few people genuinely wet themselves

I can't deal with heights ever since... 15 years later

was that the 66 to Liffey Valley , that route would scare the sh1t out of me too

bear1 · 20-05-2016 10:32AM

I think mine would be when I was heading to the Wicklow mountains on a warm summers day with my dog and then GF.
There is a waterfall on the way up (can't remember the name) but has a steep drop and pretty high up.
The dog needed take a crap badly so I stopped the car and let him out for his businees. I got out as well.
He must have heard the water and ran to it and somehow got stuck next to the rocks in the river about 20m or so from the edge.
He couldn't get free so I hoped the fence and carefully walked to where he was.
I got to him and got him free and as I turned to walk back to the grass I lost my footing and fell.
I managed to throw the dog away from me near the grass which let him run away but I was being brought to the edge of the river and then it was a pure drop to the bottom and 100$ death.
This all happened in a matter of seconds but just before the edge I got traction and was able to stop myself and get out of the river.
I'm fully sure I was being watched that day cause there is no way I should have been able to get out of that situation.

To Alcohol · 20-05-2016 10:39AM

bear1 wrote: »

I think mine would be when I was heading to the Wicklow mountains on a warm summers day with my dog and then GF.
There is a waterfall on the way up (can't remember the name) but has a steep drop and pretty high up.
The dog needed take a crap badly so I stopped the car and let him out for his businees. I got out as well.
He must have heard the water and ran to it and somehow got stuck next to the rocks in the river about 20m or so from the edge.
He couldn't get free so I hoped the fence and carefully walked to where he was.
I got to him and got him free and as I turned to walk back to the grass I lost my footing and fell.
I managed to throw the dog away from me near the grass which let him run away but I was being brought to the edge of the river and then it was a pure drop to the bottom and 100$ death.
This all happened in a matter of seconds but just before the edge I got traction and was able to stop myself and get out of the river.
I'm fully sure I was being watched that day cause there is no way I should have been able to get out of that situation.

Your dog was your girlfriend ? :pac:

Sheeeeit · 20-05-2016 10:55AM

One of mine was as a teenager at home on my own I was eating a chocolate bar, think it was one of those white chocolate Dream bars, but anyway I had a square in my mouth and I some how managed to inhale it down the wrong hole before I even started to chew. Commence a minute or 2 of absolute panic. Immediately went red in the face choking and couldn't catch any sort of breath. I started running around the room in such a panic and can still remember thinking "oh my god there's no one here to to give me the heimlich". Eventually I managed to cough up the square of chocolate after what seemed like ages. There was a few seconds there where I thought I was a goner.

keano_afc · 20-05-2016 10:58AM

I've 2, first one was after a head on crash I was involved in. It was my fault and the guy in the back seat in the other car was flung into the back of the passenger seat, trapping a girl sitting there. She was screaming "I cant feel my legs" as she was taken away in the ambulance, I was petrified and inconsolable as I realised I might have paralysed someone. She was fine thankfully.

Second one was quite recent. I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes back in January and had my first bad hypo 3 weeks ago. My wife was at a wedding with a friend and I was home with my young kids when I started feeling it coming on. I checked my bloods and was very close to passing out. I managed to get some sweets and orange juice into me and felt fine in a few minutes, but was petrified as to what could have happened had I lost conciousness.

Boom_Bap · 20-05-2016 11:08AM

I hurt my back playing football a few years ago, I thought I'd sleep it off.
The next day after no sleep and being in agony all night, I went to A&E. Got an X-Ray and the doc said that it's nothing, probably just a pulled something in my back that will heal.

A few hours later, I got a phone call.

"Mr. Bap, our senior lad has been reviewing your X-Ray and has found something"

The moment silence after that felt like hours.

"There is a dark area on one of your vertabrae, we think you might have a fracture in your spine, you need a scan."

It took about 2 weeks to get the scan done. 2 weeks of being ever so careful about everything I done.

There was nothing wrong.

20-05-2016 11:09AM

When I was 7 I was down with a friend at the local pier where I grew up.

Tides out and my friend is climbing down a rope to get to the boats that are stuck in the mud. I'm watching him and lose my balance, falling off. It's about a 20 foot drop, probably more, and I'm falling head first with nothing at the bottom but hard mud or the corner of a boat. Just past halfway down I manage to grab the rope that he used to get down and I right myself, slamming into the wall and slide down the rope, burning my hands but thankfully no scars.

I don't really remember the fall, bar grabbing the rope, but I remember looking up and seeing all these concerned faces just staring out and down at me and amazed that I had, well, survived.

Years later I found out that it was also the scariest moment for my mum, who was there to witness everything from a few hundred feet, just at the top of the road. She told me that time had slowed down for her as she saw this little body just fall suddenly, not knowing I grabbed the rope.

bear1 · 20-05-2016 11:23AM

To Alcohol wrote: »

Your dog was your girlfriend ? :pac:

I meant the dog AND my then HUMAN girlfriend :P

Howard the Duck · 20-05-2016 11:39AM

Nothing too scary has happened me but last year i got knocked down on the way to work. That second before the car hit me and i looked at it and thought " oh f**k" i was able to take a step back and the car threw me up in the air .
I was lucky as it was mostly the side of the car that hit me and the car came off much worse then i did.
I remember the people who were also just walking to work helping me and they were all really nice and wanted to call an ambulance, but i just got up and walked to work.

I'm more careful now when i'm crossing the road.

Howard the Duck · 20-05-2016 11:42AM

Boom_Bap wrote: »

I hurt my back playing football a few years ago, I thought I'd sleep it off.
The next day after no sleep and being in agony all night, I went to A&E. Got an X-Ray and the doc said that it's nothing, probably just a pulled something in my back that will heal.

A few hours later, I got a phone call.

"Mr. Bap, our senior lad has been reviewing your X-Ray and has found something"

The moment silence after that felt like hours.

"There is a dark area on one of your vertabrae, we think you might have a fracture in your spine, you need a scan."

It took about 2 weeks to get the scan done. 2 weeks of being ever so careful about everything I done.

There was nothing wrong.

Two weeks to get a scan for a possible back fracture! that's ridiculous! Glad it was ok

Spokes of Glory · 20-05-2016 11:50AM

I was about 7 or 8 on hols in Wexford. Day wasn't great so we kids decided to go to the swimming pool in a local hotel. Long story short, I ended staying there after the others had had enough, and after some time I was the only person in the pool, not a life guard in sight.

At some point I decided it would be great craic to stick a pair of armbands on my ankles instead of my arms. I had visions of vaulting around the pool like an astronaut on the moon. Of course the laws of physics kicked in immediately, and I found myself completely inverted, head on the floor of the pool, feet flailing around on the surface. I clearly recall realising I was drowning, the sensation of water filling my lungs, and desperately trying to pull my upper body back to the surface. Luckily I hadn't been stupid enough to try this experiment in the deep end. I managed to just barely reach a bar or something around the side of the pool and pull myself back up and out, followed by 5 minutes lying like a semi-drowned kitten at the poolside, coughing up water. And still no guard or attendant ever saw me. Sauntered home and never mentioned it to the folks until years later.

Almost became a Darwin award right there.

Spokes

Jawgap · 20-05-2016 11:56AM

2 events are seared into my mind......

First, the apartment I was renting in Boston was raided by ATF looking for a former tenant!! Dem boys don't mess around!!!

Second, waking up on an operating theatre table - I'd been prepped for an abdominal op and was anaesthetised - then I became aware I could hear things but I was effectively paralysed and I was just waiting for the 'cut'........it turned out they'd had problems tubing me so they brought be out from the anaesthesia in a bit of a hurry.

valoren · 20-05-2016 12:06PM

I was 7 years old and was outside kicking a ball around on the street.
Our neighbour's two doors down had a daughter who was a bit of a trouble maker, she was a teenager at the time.
She was hanging around outside their gate with a friend of hers.

Taken unawares, her friend ran up and grabbed me from behind.
The neighbour produced a dart and began to point it into my jugular vein.
I didn't scream, I was just in shock at having been grabbed but I felt the dart at my neck.

I have no idea why they did that.

Luckily, my father happened to see this happen from the front window.
He ran out and chased them away. He went to their door and confronted her father.
He never told me that he said that day but it worked. She never looked in my direction for years after.

Shint0 · 20-05-2016 12:09PM

valoren wrote: »

Taken unawares, her friend ran up and grabbed me from behind.
The neighbour produced a dart and began to point it into my jugular vein.
I didn't scream, I was just in shock at having been grabbed but I felt the dart at my neck.

Even as a teenager that's pretty disturbing and wouldn't bode well for future behaviour.

20-05-2016 12:15PM

I was once out for a cycle to try out these new shoes I got, which clicked into the pedals. Me being me I went out without figuring out how to take them out again. On a country road I came face-to-face with a truck coming in the other direction, that absolutely should not have been there as it was too big and the road too small. I pull over to let the truck pass and, of course, I can't get my feet out, lose my balance, and fall over as it passes, into the path of the truck. It misses crushing my head by inches - close enough to feel the gush of wind as it passed.

I've had far too many near death experiences, mostly because of my awful balance.

Edit: I've also fallen out of trees and tall rocks.

Pretty certain I'm Wolverine.

harry Bailey esq · 20-05-2016 12:55PM

tomwaterford wrote: »

Really really really bad turbulence....I'm nervous enough on planes at best of times

Its only really scary the first time though, any frequent flyer worth his/her salt knows that 6-10 pints,a handful of benzos and a few in flight whiskeys sorts that out. That said, if its an important business meeting, a nice bit of sniff is handy too.

ArnoldJRimmer · 20-05-2016 01:39PM

When I was a teenager back in the early 90's, I used to regularly hitch lifts over to the next town to see my mates and maybe have a few beers. Got picked up by some questionable characters at the time, but one experience stands out.

Was on the road one summers afternoon and a van stopped. The driver told me there was no room in the front, but to jump in the back. There were three men in the front and I quickly realised that they were all very drunk. In the back of the van where I was, there was nothing but a container of petrol that had spilled everywhere. An old man in the front started to ask me questions, mainly about what I thought about Sinn Fein and the IRA. I took an educated guess that he probably supported both and said I did the same.

He then told me that they were all members of the UVF who had crossed the border for a mission, and that they were going to beat me up and kill me for being a fcuking taig. He was smoking and kept gesturing to throw the lit cigarette in the petrol at my feet. We then turned up a country road, at which stage, I was struggling to keep it together.

The driver, who had said nothing up til then, turned around and said, 'Ah don't be listening that auld eejit, he's only taking a hand at you.' They all had a good laugh in the front about it. They stopped to let the old man out at his house, went back to the main road and the driver couldn't have been nicer, saying he'd drop me off wherever I wanted

I was never so relieved to get out of a vehicle, and to this day cant comprehend how anyone could think that scaring the **** out of a kid like that could be funny

jigglypuffstuff · 21-05-2016 10:12PM

Wow there are some messed up stories in this thread

Serious question.. Anyone ever have one of those "white light type episodes" or seeing your life flash?

This life flashing before the eyes thing happend me in a car accident.. We skidded across into the path of oncoming traffic, went off the road and hit a tree

Not a nice feeling...strange how vivid things are though... You literally see everything in that second or two..I thought that was a joke tbh but it isn't

failinis · 21-05-2016 10:16PM

pone2012 wrote: »

Wow there are some messed up stories in this thread

Serious question.. Anyone ever have one of those "white light type episodes" or seeing your life flash?

This life flashing before the eyes thing happend me in a car accident.. We skidded across into the path of oncoming traffic, went off the road and hit a tree

Not a nice feeling...strange how vivid things are though... You literally see everything in that second or two..I thought that was a joke tbh but it isn't

I did not have a "white light" - everything just started to fade to black and the panic left me, just kind felt accepting for all of it to be over.
No flashing of my life before I eyes (sure I was only about 8 what life) but I really remember, where I was facing was towards the window, it was late evening so the neighbours across the way had their lights on and I really did think "Is their window the last thing I am going to see?"
How stupid.

dollyk · 21-05-2016 10:21PM

Standing outside the nuns office at school, because I had no uniform.
It was the 60s and we had like 14 kids in our family.
Thought I was gonna pass out with fear.
She called me in -Sr depazzi , Ill never forget her name,
and went to a cupboard and gave me a second hand one.:eek:
See they were not all that bad. Was delighted, remember even wearing it at weekends lol:P

Stigura · 21-05-2016 10:25PM

pone2012 wrote: »

What's the most frightening thing thats happened you??

Something so fcuking scary that I've been deeply effected by it to this day. Two decades on.

Sorry. Got to stop thinking anywhere near it now.

Didn't mean to mess with the thread. Just had to get it out.

Sorry. I'm gone.

Kovu · 21-05-2016 10:26PM

pone2012 wrote: »

Wow there are some messed up stories in this thread
Serious question.. Anyone ever have one of those "white light type episodes" or seeing your life flash?
This life flashing before the eyes thing happend me in a car accident.. We skidded across into the path of oncoming traffic, went off the road and hit a tree
Not a nice feeling...strange how vivid things are though... You literally see everything in that second or two..I thought that was a joke tbh but it isn't

Yea I can remember everything slowing down when I was underwater, seeing glimpses of air and bubbles, then rock and sky as I was tossed about. I vividly remember seeing my hands in front of me with my fingers splayed and trying to grab onto the rocks, thinking ...'so this is how I die...huh'. I also thought of my parents and I was immensely sad that I was never going to see them again. I can't swim so it was common sense in my head to imagine that I wasn't getting out of there alive.

TG1 · 21-05-2016 10:28PM

Mine was only 6 months ago when my horse fell on top of me. Seeing the back of her neck coming at my face is not something I'll forget for a while I think.

Wasn't so much a life flashing before my eyes moment, but a split second felt like minutes watching her come towards me, but I just couldn't move fast enough to get out of the way...

caille · 23-05-2016 12:04AM

I have several, the affects of them so bad on me that I feel I have permanent PTSD.

ToddyDoody · 23-05-2016 08:53PM

Thinking I might have HIV, though manageable it seems to make me faint to contemplate.

The scariest moment..

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