Have you ever had a near-death experience - being in a situation where you learned what the term "my life flashed before my eyes" really means?
Let me tell you about the one experience I had. Feel free to share yours.
About 17-18 years ago, I was watching TV and eating pizza with my son's father. I don't recall what we were watching, but at one point, I got extremely tickled while I still had pizza in my mouth. I started to choke on a piece of sausage from the pizza. My ex didn't realize it because {I think} he thought I was still laughing. I managed to grab him & he realized I was breathing in but not out. I also think he saw the fear in my eyes.
My life literally started to flash before my eyes & I panicked! I ran to the bathroom & luckily, he was right behind me. I had never been so scared in my life. He grabbed me around the waist and performed the Heimlich Maneuver. After a few seconds, the sausage came up & I could breathe!! I just sat on the bathroom floor and cried.
As a result of this incident, I now have a deep-rooted fear of asphyxiation/choking to death.
PS Does this mean I owe my baby's daddy my life? *eyeroll* & *lol
WOW.
ReplyDeleteI was on the highway in my mommy van with my son, who was a year old and we were hit from behind by someone who fell asleep at the wheel. I heard my son scream and turned my head and watched him the whole time we were spinning around and flipping. It happened on the day before I was moving into my house up here after I left my ex. This sounds corny, but starting our new life up their and surviving that crash made me feel like I was re-born into a new life.
No.. you dont owe him your life... but i'd never eat a piece of sausage again... But Im thankful everything turned out ok for you... cuz otherwise, who else would I bother on a daily basis... ;O)
ReplyDeleteAnd heck no, you gave his child life... that makes you still ahead of the game. LOL
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're still here. You two are even. You gave his child life.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't sound corny at all!
ReplyDeleteI couldn't give up sausage, but the fear is ever present.
ReplyDelete@ Rob & BHF - I'm in agreement!
ReplyDeleteWell, the one issue that really sticks with me and I've posted this and talked about it many times, so I wont take up much space, but I still remember it like it was yesterday... Some things you can move on, but you dont forget...
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I had one when I was in Aruba a few years ago. me & one of my friends were riding in those innertubes that get pulled by the speed boat. 20mph don't sound like much, but it is out in the water. we were in separate tubes...and hit a patch of rough waves...Out tubes collided & bounced off each other really hard which caused us flip pretty violently into the water at some ridiculous amount of speed. when mine turned over...i got thrown kinda deep into the water - mind you...we are pretty far out from the shore...i went under and got very disoriented & started to panic...all I could think of was not being able to rech the surface soon enuff...and I was struggling to keep going for the top while I was in panic mode.
ReplyDeleteI was so shaken up when I finally got to some air...that I had no strength to pull myself vback onto the tube...i was crying hysterically...and the dude driving just told me to hold on and he'd drive slow to get us back to shore (then all I cld think of was gettin my leg torn off by a shark)
my entire existance flashed before my eyes...and the worst part after the fact? we had been hittin those waves so hard that my enitre back side from my waist to the top of the back of my thighs were black & blus from bruises.
no more water sports in the ocean for me. no sir...
p.s. my friend had a totally different experience she though the shit was the funniest thing in the world...and here my ass though I was about to sleep wit da fishes.. *smdh*
ReplyDeleteI'm going to be nice today.
ReplyDeleteI was waiting on one y'all to say something along those lines! LOL
ReplyDeleteI tried not to Mo. I really did.
ReplyDeleteWhoooo lawd....I love me some open water, but that would've scared me shitless too!
ReplyDeleteGlad you made it out ok!
ok, I was driving down some dark, country two lane road in North Carolina when suddenly I realize I am in a curve and hadn't turned the wheel. So I brake to maneuver the curve and next thing I know, my ass is flipping over and over and over and over and I landed upside down. The last thought I remember having before finallly landing was "God help me" and it finally stopped. I unlocked the seat belt, fell on my head, climbed out the window and got the heck outta there. I was petrified that car was gonna blow.
ReplyDeleteThe scary part about it, is that as I was flipping I see cars go by (it was dark and I could see the lights pass by) and nobody stopped to help or make sure I was alive or even call the police.
Thank God I've never had a NEAR-DEATH experience.
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