Near Death Experiences!

[david]

Originally posted by Duncan
Hey, DJD, you two can now get married up there.

Anyway, I had a near death experience in VT my freshman year at college. Me and my BEST FRIEND decided we would free climb Smugglers Notch. That was really retarded in hindsight. We got stranded for an hour about 3/4 of the way up. Finally, like an idiot psycho, I decided i was going to try a semi anchored branch. I jumped for it and and flailed all of my limbs and made it up while the "anchored" branch fell below about 600 ft. Anyway, I climbed up another 30 ft and found a rope and pulled my friend up th rest of the way. We decided that we would keep the rope for the descent, which I feel was wise.

Geeeeeeeez us Duncan. U R Crazy! I haven't been there but I heard of it!

Speaking of VT. Our Middle School Basketball team in Novemeber finished practice in WRJ, VT. There was this 90 degree hill. (not even a hill- more like a cliff) It was slightly frozen and partly muddy in spots. We all said, "Let's see who can climb it and get to the top. We all did and I looked back and almost fell back! Oh Shit! Anyway, our coach heard about it, lectured us and gave us an extra hour of training (suicides, regular running etc.)

He said, "That should teach my starting 5 Basketball team to realize that without them I wouldn't have a team at all!

PS. I didn't see that comment about getting married in VT!

 

[Dr. Pain]

I have two

One when I was 14 living in the Bahamas.....worked on a sport fishing boat. One day our 42 footer was towing a 36' sport boat to another marina for repairs...the line started to fray....and the captain made me jump from our stern onto the bow of the other boat with a line! Fine if not for the 8-12 foot seas. I slipped and ended up underneath the other boat in 800 feet of water on the way to it's dormant prop...but getting pounded about the head and back from the wave action..and almost passing out....somehow I had the line tangled on me and was slowly pulled into our boat before I drowned.

Can't say I learned anything from this.

Then many years later, I went to the hospital for nausea, intense abdominal cramps and vomiting (classic appendicitis)...my doctor didn't want me admitted...told them to fill me up with Demerol and sent me home with gastroenteritis (bad gas)...I slept through the rupture...the next morning the Pain was so intense...I wanted to crash my head into the wall to put myself out.

By the time I got to the hospital, my white count was down (they should have done that the previous day) and they had to rush me into exploratory surgery. I had massive peritonitus and they said I was maybe an hour away from dying....took 10 days of IV antibiotics which sucked!

So I'm lying there thinking.....maybe I should become more religious. And then it hit me...hit me hard....

FUCK, I ALMOST DIED, AND I'M NOT HAPPY....I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING THAT MAKES ME HAPPY....LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE WASTING YOUR TIME DOING THINGS THAT DON'T MAKE YOU HAPPY!

The next several years....well.... let's just call them incredible!

 

[w8lifter]

Originally posted by Dr. Pain


So I'm lying there thinking.....maybe I should become more religious. And then it hit me...hit me hard....

FUCK, I ALMOST DIED, AND I'M NOT HAPPY....I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING THAT MAKES ME HAPPY....LIFE IS TOO SHORT TO BE WASTING YOUR TIME DOING THINGS THAT DON'T MAKE YOU HAPPY!

The next several years....well.... let's just call them incredible!

 

[Badger]

I've got one to share. I used to fly in helicopters during my wonderful "hitch" in the military. One day while flying off of a carrier just off the coast of Cuba we started experiencing major, and numerous, mechanical problems. We started heading back to the carrier and didn't make it. We started to make an ocean landing and decending through about 40-50 ft the rotor speed got so slow that the rotor blades "drooped" and cut off our tail section and we sort of free fell landing on our left side. Needless to say it was a rather violent impact but we all managed to escape and floated around for a little while until another helicopter came to pick us up. Had none of us gotten out we would have been fish bait at about 7000 ft. We crashed over a trench, one of the deepest in the world, so it would have been a cold deep grave.

 

[david]

It is quite amazing of some of those lessons we learned in life turns our life around! And for the better! We could almost practically sub-label this thread, "Why I turned my life around or a lesson to be learned".

up, DP! Great thread!