People Who Survived Are Sharing The Most Terrifying Moments Of Their Lives

I was jumped by some skinheads high [very] and they nearly slit my throat. Only reason I was saved was someone inside the house party heard me screaming.

I survived a carbon monoxide leak that lead to weeks of being on life support while I was in a coma. I died and the doctors didn’t think I would wake up.

"Fell into a spring river got hypothermia, was stung by a bee just after and found out I was allergic.

The only reason the bee sting didn’t [end] me was the hypothermia"

Last year. Stopped being able to eat. Like, at all. Could barely sip Powerade. I dropped 55 pounds in 6 weeks. Doctor didn't care. Finally got to a gastroenterologist who sent me to the hospital and diagnosed me with gastroparesis. My stomach doesn't send food to my guts correctly. He put me on a regimen of meds that got me eating within hours.

"I had a seizure on I-10 with cruise set at 80 mph. (Stupid, I know) I rolled my car 11 times according to the girl behind me. I was ejected, they had to cut trees down to tow the car out, and I wrecked so hard that they couldn’t find my shoes.

I walked away without a scratch, bruise, or a concussion."

I was like 8 years old and had been throwing up for 2 days with a lot of stomach pain.

I started going in and out of consciousness and got rushed to hospital.

Turns out my appendix had burst and I needed emergency surgery.

Spent a week in hospital then several weeks at home on the couch unable to walk very far.

I did get a Gameboy and Pokémon blue though so not all bad.

"I dropped a ceramic bowl full of meatballs when I pulled it it out of the microwave and it shattered and a piece sliced my foot open near my ankle.

I didn’t notice, but my then 10 year old did. I wrapped it with a dish towel but I was 🩸-ing so heavily that I duct taped the towel to my foot, threw the kids in the car, drove up to my grandma’s front door, yelled out the window what happened while dropping the kids off.

Drove myself to the ER, left a trail of 🩸-y footprints up the"

I bit an extension cord when I was three. The scar remains at the corner of my mouth at 52

I had a hemorrhagic miscarriage and lost >30% of my blood. I had to have four blood transfusions and an emergency abortion.

The ER doc said, “If this was a different time or place, this story would turn out very differently.

1. I was in a hot tub with several grown ups when I was about three or four years old. All of a sudden I was under water. I remember looking up and seeing their faces through the water. It seemed like an eternity before one of them noticed and pulled me out of the water.

2. I had an unmedicated, unprepared stillbirth. Anything could have gone wrong with the birth. I was lucky.

3. I got amoxicillan resistant strep throat. The infection was so bad that I couldn't or drink, and I could barely 🪡

Stung by a box jellyfish when I was 2, had to be resuscitated.

On a whitewater kayaking trip my kayak tipped upside down and got pinned between two boulders. Underneath, my foot was tangled in a rope, making it so that for several seconds I was trapped underwater with the rapids rushing over me.

In 1983 I was hitchhiking and got picked up by a famous serial k**ler, I jumped out at a four way stop and ran. Didn’t talk about it for twenty years.

Living it right now… was in a horrific car accident July 1. Driver hit a tree. I had to be life flighted. Broken heel, broken ribs, brain bleed, staples in head, facial sutures, almost a collapsed lung.. if the cop hadn’t been behind us when he drove into the tree, I wouldn’t have survived.

I drove up to a lookout on the mountain and downed a bottle of pills with vodka. Sat on the hood of my car and closed my eyes.

Someone coming back to their car called 911. I didn’t die. I’m forever grateful for it, and forever regret scaring my parents and brother.

Last summer: got a scratch on my b**** while tubing. Cleaned and bandaged when I got home, seemed sore but fine for a few days. Then redness, swelling and too painful to sit. Went to ER, they took me into an OR immediately after an examination. Woke up to find out they'd had to cut a good chunk of infected tissue. Spent a few days in ICU then moved to a regular room before discharge. Was told a few days later after reports came back that there were 2 bacteria, gave me the formal names.

When I was 15, I had a journal where I wrote everything in. I wrote that I had a boyfriend and I lost my virginity to him. My mum read my journal since I left it in the restroom by accident and she was mad. A week later, I wanted to try out an alcoholic drink under the supervision of my parents and they said ok. I drank a Smirnoff ice (the cloudy looking one) and it was the big bottle. I had a bit left and I forced it down because I didn’t want to waste it.

1) Became septic after the dr left a surgical sponge inside me during my c-section
2) Got pancreatitis after my gallbladder surgery. 0/10 would not recommend

I was starved from 84 to 60 pounds in an icu. When I told my family the staff said I was hallucinating on the large amount of medications I was on. I was mute (mechanically ventilated), unable to walk or even turn over in bed. I held up a white board that said CALL HOSPICE whenever my staff wasn’t around. On day 25, I went to hospice.

What you were supposed to think was that I was dying from cancer. People did think that. Was a lie. They were watching me starve

And I left hospice and cured my cancer

My family stayed in a place in China with a coal fire and we all got carbon monoxide poisoning. Luckily I’d just read a book about it, so when my dad collapsed on his way to the bathroom I got everyone else up and out of the house before it was too late.