Why are you alive?

[igor_kavinski]

I run, dog bites a big chunk of my 10yr old back leg out.

Did your leg recover fully?

 

[Muse]

Funny "Why are you alive" turned into a why aren't you dead thread. Or was the original title changed?

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Did your leg recover fully?

Mostly. The dog ate the chunk of meat he took. I was such a skinny little kid they could not do a graft. They called in a surgeon from Orlando to work on me. None of the Dr.s here had a strategy because of how much flesh was missing and how mangled the wound was. I was running so when he chomped down, So it tore my leg out of his mouth making for a nasty mess. I could feel a chunk of back thigh meat which was torn and dangling, bouncing off of my calf as I ran. Only flight or fight chemicals kept me from collapsing before I made it in the house.

100s of layered sutures working from the inside out. I think it took him 8hrs? Months before the scar tissue filled in the area where the flesh was missing. I was in a half cast a good while. My weird gate due to the injury was one of things that got me picked on and bullied. Karate and kickboxing rehabbed it and cured the muscle imbalances and weakness. In time I used that leg to kick bullies in the head. 💀

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Funny "Why are you alive" turned into a why aren't you dead thread. Or was the original title changed?

RIF = Reading is fundamental.

First line of the OP -

"Which near death experiences or accidents that could have gone horribly wrong have you experienced?"

Now STFU and GTFO! Kidding Kidding. It does come off like you didn't read the post though Homie.

 

[igor_kavinski]

In time I used that leg to kick bullies in the head. 💀

You remind me of Vin Diesel and how his windpipe was crushed, yet he overcame his circumstances and became the man he is today.

Then there was the three day coma of former AMD CEO Jerry Sanders: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/PROFILE-Jerry-Sanders-Silicon-Valley-s-tough-2873326.php

At 18, while at a college party, he came to the aid of a friend who was being beaten by several young thugs. The friend took off, and Sanders was kicked and punched and dumped into a garbage can. He was in a coma for three days and given Last Rites.

It really is true that "what doesn't kill you, only makes you stronger". Hasn't happened to me though. Everytime I almost died, I've come out of it feeling weaker, becoming less and less of what I formerly was. Maybe I need a coma

 

[Muse]

RIF = Reading is fundamental.

First line of the OP -

"Which near death experiences or accidents that could have gone horribly wrong have you experienced?"

Now STFU and GTFO! Kidding Kidding. It does come off like you didn't read the post though Homie.

Oh, I did read the OP but forgot it today. Pardon me. Anyway, I think you can understand my saying what I did if my idea of the thread is from the title (which IS kind of misleading).

PS I did relate my own near death experience about 2 pages in.

 

[Muse]

I had to have my appendix taken out when I was in high school.

That did kill a friend of mine.