Describe the most serious injury you've ever experienced.  What was that like?  Are you stronger now? do share
543011
Being hit by a car at age ten. It was scary....to me, that is. I was across the street, saw my cousin crying, went back over there to see why, then, got hit. I did look both ways. I was on the ground, and I was crying as soon as I saw my Nana. And, get this, no broken bones! Even if I did flew up all the way in the air. I am stronger, now. I think. Anyway, had to share.
932814
I was run over by a car when I was 11 years old.  I was completely pinned under the car.  I could not move at all.  I had my life go before my eyes as I watched the tire proceed to come towards my head.  The tire would have run over my head.  I had nothing left so I cried out for Jesus to save me.  Jesus did save me under that car.  I was moved even though I could not move.   All that I suffered were 3rd degree scrapes.  I nearly had a whole through my cheek.  At the hospital the doctor had to pick stones out of my face.  I walked away and my wounds healed in 3 months.  I barely have a scar today.  I have just enough of a scar to remind me that Jesus saved me.\n\nI have also seen the child of a family friend who fell out of a tree and got caught by his neck between two branches.  This kid died in that tree.  He was pronounced as being dead for more than 20 minutes at the scene.  He was dead when they took him out of the tree.  It was prayer by his mother (a Christian) to Jesus  that resurrected him.  This kid did have brain damage.  But the last that I heard he was learning how to walk again and he was getting high 90's in school.  I have talked with him about his miracle.  His name is Michael.\n\nDoctors say that if you are braindead for more than 12 minutes you will be a vegetable even if they can revive your body.
574344
I tried to go skiing. While getting on the chairlift, one of my skis stayed at the bottom of the hill and, because I had never regularly gotten off a chairlift, my friend tried to drag me off but we wound up on the ground and the lift had to stop so we could crawl out from under.\nThen, while going to the hill, I slipped and one of my skis went in-between a snowboarder's legs. THAT was extremely embarrassing because I was lying down underneath of her, one leg in-between hers, and I had knocked her backwards, though she managed to catch herself from falling on top of me.\nWhen I finally got out of that mess, it took me over an hour to go down the hill.\n\nAfter that escapade, I stayed in the resort all day and haven't gone skiing since.
1053256
Yes,  Once I fell off a cliff... well I sort of jumped but I had no choice.  I cracked my head pretty hard at the bottom.\n\nI think I died and went to hell... it was a boiling pit of blood, people were screaming in it all around me.  Any who tried to surface or reach out would get slashed by flying serpents that skimmed the surface.  This of course could have been a hallucination... I felt I deserved to be there for what I had done in my life, so I sunk to the bottom, resigned to my fate.  There I saw a baby that took my hand and said, "wake up, I still need you!"\n\nWhen I awoke, I was in that gulch with blood all over my face, matted in my hair and my head damaged.  I couldn't walk... I had to drag myself out, one foot at a time and the pain was terrible as my shock wore off. \n \nI prayed to God for the strength to make it out alive and swore to do all he asked of me if I survived... somehow I made it back up to the road and was delivered to the hospital by some motorists.\n\nI believe it was a miracle!
763710
I was walking along the street and I tripped over a broken paving slab...fell flat out into the road just as a long line of schoolchildren came round the corner.  I was so embarrassed that I staggered up and walked away. I didnt realise that I had broken my arm until about 10 minutes later :((
548148
Yes survived, don't really remember if it hurt.  Stray bullet in Iraq.  It was more of a scary feeling than a painful feeling.  Happy to be alive though.
508966
Yes.  My ex beat and tortured me for 4 long years.  He nearly killed me and I nearly lost our child when pregnant.  He cheated and mentally abused me so bad that I couldn't even hold my head up.  I finally escaped after nearly being killed.  In my agony I prayed for God for vengeance...not long after I got away from him, he suffered a nearly fatal accident.  He was 'huffing' the chemical freon when it caused him to pass out.  While passed out, the can rolled in front of his face and kept spraying.  After he was found, he died twice and was jumped with the paddles.  He was in a coma for 3 months and had 13 plastic surgeries for the 3rd degree burns on his face.  He lost an eye and suffered permanent scars.  Every surgery felt like a lit match on his skin.  Even though something so devastating would have been possible because of his lifestyle, I truly believe it was fate, God, karma, whatever that interviened because of how horrible he treated another human being who only was fool enough to love him.  I also try to live by the idea of what comes around goes around, it's a good believe that will keep you in check and helps to make you a better person.
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I was in junior high, went to my dates house, knocked on the door and woke up in the hospital.\nSeems that when I knocked on the door, I loosened the snow and ice above the door and it fell down putting me out cold.\n\nHad a concussion and 12 stitches, but the girl was there when I came to.
783342
I WAS hit by a car once, when I was crossing a sidestreet on my bike.\n\nIt was a Dodge Ram 250 too, but I was miraculously saved, as the bumper only hit the handlebar and even though I went flying off the bike to the ground, I only received minor bumps and bruises and a short stay in the local hospital.\n\nEven more amazing (or at least for me), I went to work a few hours after that at the catering business I worked at.\n\nI actually have had 4 such experiences that I can remember, and maybe even more that I don't remember, but I agree with you that they have truly changed me, by making me much more cautious and appreciative of all the small things in life, and now I take almost nothing for granted.
100745
Been there done that.. twice.  I dislocated my right knee 11 yrs ago.. but there was someone with me at the time. They are the one that dislocated it!!  So he helped me out. The second knee cap that dislocated.. I was alone, upstairs, and my newborn was downstairs.  There was no way I could get down a flight of stairs.  I called my boyfriend who was on the road about 2 hours away and had him call his mom for help, cuz I didn't know her phone number by heart.  Its amazing what you can do when you are injured, though.  I had managed to get my kneecap back in place, and hobble down a flight of stairs to be with my baby until help arrived.  Scary, but it makes you much stronger.  It's amazing.
132450
When I was nine, I broke my arm. I was jumping off a little tykes pic nic table and grabbing the top bar of my swing set. Swinging and then jumping off. Well, we moved it back a little to far for me (i am not very tall!! about 5 foot tall at 25) and I missed the top bar. I fell and tried to catch myself with my left arm. I them proceeded to land on top of my arm and broke both the bones in my arm with one coming through the skin. I had emergency surgery, 14 stitches and a heavy plaster cast from fingertips to shoulder for four months. The scar is a doozy too. I held the record for worst broken bone on a girl at the hospital for a while. Hurts just thinking about it.
957005
OMG the funny memory this question dragged up!\nThere was this obnoxious guy that kept groping at my ex-bosses grand-daughter in the bar.  He could not take a hint.  Anyways, we were out with some friends of ours, one of whom was an off duty cop.  We escorted the pig and his friend out of the bar and I must have been feeling invincible with my cop friend and swung at the guy hitting him square in the face.  I dont know who was more shocked, me, him or our friends.  Anyways, his friend was dragging him away as my friends were holding me back.  I can't imagine what on earth possessed me to hit the guy (rum maybe???) but I am glad everyone else had enough sense to let it stop there.
789248
3 scars. One on my chin, from falling out of a porch swing when I was 8, one on my leg, was opening a box with a box cutter (not operating it safely) and one on my forearm where a speaker fell on me at a party.
204007
Actually had no idea what it would feel like...I was hit by a tracer round from an AK-47. Felt like getting hit by a baseball bat.. watched it from about 150 yards to almost impact..was in SLOOO- motion. Cauterized itself (burned itself closed) Had just 1 drop of blood at both entry and exit Went numb almost immediately.Couldn't flex elbow either.
285242
about a year ago in school..... I was messing around with a couple of friends and it got crazy so i got chased around the halls. i was alot faster and the halls were very crowded but i can dodge people as im running. i had a good distance between me and my friends and for a second i looked back while i was running and BAM i tackled a girl, she went flying about 8 feet  skidding across the floor. i was in complete shock and people were looking at me. man that was horrible but there were no hard feelings
703415
you fell forward while riding your bicycle and rammed your crotch into the handle bars.. \nyou had a bad experience with a pony ride/ hard saddle horn at a carnival while little. \nyou were playing leap frog at a birthday party and missed jumping over and fell over the kids head wrong (landing on your xxxxx) \nyou were climbing over a fence and landed on the fence post crooked..\nbad experience testing out tampons while young..\nneed more?... haha!
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You will have the most pain you have ever known.\n\nCoach