47 Terrifying Real-Life Events That Survivors Will Probably Never Forget

I actually died giving birth and they brought me back 🥲

I was 6 getting my tonsils out. Surgeon cut my artery in my neck and left a tonsil. Sent me home. Started vomiting blood in the back of my mom’s van. By the time I made it to the hospital I was in a coma and by the time a pediatric surgeon was called I needed 3 blood transfusions and had lost over 50% of my blood. Had to be in the hospital for a week. Was so weak I could barely lift my head for a couple days.

29, went to get my first tattoo. At the end I stood up and…hit the floor in a grand mal seizure. Hit just right/wrong that my breathing and heart stopped. Funnily enough the person I went with just completed CPR certification the week prior and the tattoo artists wife was epileptic so everyone knew what to do.

I almost died in an apartment fire because a resident on another floor was smoking while hooked up to oxygen. The cat I had back then woke me up at about 5am in a panic. There was smoke everywhere, and I grabbed her, put her in her carrier, and called the fire department to let them know we were still in the building. We were some of the last people to get out of the building. When we got out, I just sat on the road curb and sobbed.

This is the cat that saved my life.

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.

Yeah….. I was choking on a piece of beef roast and my dad had to give me the heimlic. The feeling of swallowing and trying to clear your airway and not being able to is terrifying.

I fell 60 feet out of a tree as a kid. Hitting branches on the way down saved me. Knocked the wind out of me so bad. My brother kept saying "please don't be dead" while climbing down to get to me haha

Accidentally drove up a mountain overlooking the sea with no space to turn around and the ocean on one side and a cliff on the other and had to slowly back down

A man I knew - as in, I’d met him twice - turned up at my house. Said he’d just moved to the area & thought he’d say hi. We chatted for an hour or so, when I said he needed to go so I could go to bed he tried to force himself on me then he attacked me in the neck with my own bread knife. The knife hit the junction of my sternum & clavicle. If it had been a cm higher, it would’ve gone into my throat.

at 15 i had a reaction to the suture used in my tonsillectomy. my throat was almost completely closed. i could just barely breathe but couldn’t drink water or anything. my mom took me to an ER and in eight hours they didn’t even triage me, though i was drifting in and out of consciousness and was visibly gray. eventually she took me to a different hospital where i was triaged immediately and they found my blood pressure to be 65/40. i was maybe an hour tops away from organ failure, they said

Germany, 1991 - I’m driving on the Autobahn in morning traffic to turn in Army gear ahead of my transfer back to the states. Stayed up too long. Dozed off behind the wheel. When I woke up I was drifting right at 80 miles an hour; I over correct and slam into the middle guardrail.
I end up backward with cars zooming at me at 90 miles an hour. I prepared for death, but it never came. Everyone else was wide awake, thank God.

Appendix burst. Drs kept fobbing off my pain for over a week as women’s issues. Ended up septic with appendix fused to my bowel & k**ling me. The only reason I didn’t die was because a Nurse convinced a General Surgeon to do a laparoscopy after he finished the day’s vasectomies. He opened me up & found a complete mess. Needed a bowel re-section on top of appendectomy. Woke up in Intensive Care.

broke my spine in a short fall. it’s true how your life flashes before your eyes before you hit the ground and i’m very lucky i’m not paralyzed or dead

My alarm went off one day and I was like ehhh i kinda want to sleep a little longer… then I’m like no, get up. Less than 1 minute later a giant tree fell right where my head was on my pillow.

My ex tried to k**l me, I needed over 30 stitches. He was within millimetres of hitting an artery. I have a disfiguring scar and permanent spinal damage that affects me everyday.

Standing in Circle K, after buying my stuff, I saw designs in front of my eyes. Two seconds later (at least to me), I was on the floor, with a scalp gash, freshly bleeding. Because I have AFib and it puts me at risk for stroke, I take Xarelto, an anticoagulant. Had to go to the ER for stitchup and x-rays to verify no brain bleeding.

However, because I have a pacemaker with defibrillator, they decided to check its memory. Turns out, I was hit with Ventricular Tachycardia, and ten seconds in the defibrillator fired, shocking my heart back into controlled sinus rhythm. The ER cardiologist told my wife and I that if it hadn't shocked me, I would've died before the EMTs would've arrived.

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 choked on food and couldn't breathe and vomited it out before i lost oxygen completely (No hospital needed)

"Literally got choked out by my ex. As my favorite m*rder podcasters say: F**K POLITENESS.
(Save yourself and be sorry later)"

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.