Am I Going to Die?

[SquirrelPants]

Christmas Day 2008, I went four-wheeling with my dad and uncle. Well, we ended up getting stuck. It was a pretty simple dig-out, it seemed, until we realized not only were we stuck on all sides in 4 feet of snow and a foot of mud, but that we ended up hitting a pond, causing the Bronco to sink an extra foot.
I nearly froze, and had a minuscule amount of ice frozen onto my feet, and I think I was getting to hypothermia, because I was FREAKING THE FUCK OUT.
Anyway, we finally got my mom and aunt to come, and they brought me and the dog home, but my dad and uncle stayed. It took two trucks, a broken shovel, 5 hours, and a pretty much ruined Christmas to get the Bronco out.

Okay, I'm going to throw down my second smart ass card of the day.

Hypothermia is merely when your body temperature starts dropping below normal and it starts when you start shivering. Yes, you are going into hypothermia when you start shivering. When you really have to worry though, is when you stop shivering for no apparent reason. That's when your core temperature has dropped to the point where your body has given up trying to warm itself.

Your freaking out was just panic.

I'm just going off my first aid knowledge here, someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Really? Thank you very much for that, I recall being told that hypothermia makes you start freaking out and panicking more than you normally would after a certain point.
So yeah, thanks a lot for that. =D

 

[dekkarax]

I was almost killed at birth; had to be in intensive care for a couple of weeks, not that I remember it; I'm glad I don't.

 

[Ace of Spades]

The thread title reminds me so much of the Travelocity gnome.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLXV6gTD9GA&feature=related
I thought that I was going to die when my brother pushed me into a pool when I was 5 and didn't know how to swim.

 

[MurmurTwins]

Fahrenheit is more exact because it was designed for mercury rather than water and alcohol. That created a more accurate thermometer AND introduced a wider range of temperature values as well. The Fahrenheit scale is better for human living day-to-day than Celsius, which is small, messy and hilariously stupid with that -18 to +38 nonsense.

Come on. Zero is very, very cold. One hundred is very, very hot. That mid-range of 40 to 60 degrees is mild. How is that hard to get?

 

[abtrogdor]

i was swept out to sea in a rip once. it was scary as hell, but i just kept swimming and eventually made it back to the breaking waves, where i got swept back to shore.

and i almost killed my brother once. we were swordfighting with these fibreglass poles, and i accidentally stabbed him in the eye. we were both lucky, another centimetre deeper and it wouldve taken his eye out (it was pissing blood as it was) and another little bit more and i would have killed him.

 

[Bagaloo]

Hmm, nothing springs to mind for me.
However, half on topic, I did once manage to capsise a small two man boat, trapping my friend under it. For about 10 seconds, I thought he was trapped and done for. Then he popped up safely.

 

[Mega Moose]

Uuuh...
When I was a teenager, I got curious and smoked some pot. The entire time I actually thought I was going to die, because I thought my pulse had increased eraticly.
Never did drugs again.

 

[new_age_reject]

I had some condition called pericarditis, which meant the lining around my heart inflamed. It was the most pain I have ever experienced (they say it's worse than heart attacks), it took 3 shots of morphine for the pain to go away and apparently it can be fatal.

 

[CincoDeMayo]

I once had the worst chest pain of my life, the area around my heart hurt so much that I just collapsed to the floor, unable to move other than to grab the chest in pain.
It was the worst attack I've had and (as far as I remember) the last one serious enough to bring me to the floor.

 

[LoopyDood]

and i almost killed my brother once. we were swordfighting with these fibreglass poles, and i accidentally stabbed him in the eye. we were both lucky, another centimetre deeper and it wouldve taken his eye out (it was pissing blood as it was) and another little bit more and i would have killed him.

Whoa, was he blinded? If I blinded my brother like that the guilt would almost kill me.

 

[Fightgarr]

I was on a mountain called Edith Cavel (I think that's how you spell it) in Jasper National Park in Alberta. Me and my brother started climbing up a slope and onto a plateau which we didn't realize was part of the mountain's impressive "Angel Glacier". While we were on that part of the glacier an minor avalanche occurred sending large chunks of rocks and a new stream cascading out of the cliff face above us. My brother went back the way we came but was looking for an easier way down along the edge. I hit a loose rock and fell down the cliff. I slid down the side of the glacier for about 30-40 feet taking a rock the size of me down as well which cut my leg open. I miraculously landed on my feet and was rushed to the hospital to have my leg bandaged. I'm seriously lucky I am alive. I did not make this up.

 

[barryween]

I once went to the ER because I had a fever of 42C. That's pretty close to dying I suppose.

edit: That's 107F for those of you who use Fahrenheit... Down with Fahrenheit, it makes no sense.

Numbers make no sense to you? Once as a kid I had a simple condition that looks similar to lukimia and they thought i had cancer. i didnt learn this till later though.

 

[Seydaman]

i was riding my bike down a steep mountain went REALLY fast and i hit a car, i lived with no damage, was fucking scary though, i forgot my brakes

 

[Bobkat1252]

Nearly died after falling off a cliff in the Southwest, but due to the curvature of the slope below and some lovely cactus, I didn't break a bone, but I tore all the skin off my right arm, elbows, kness, and right shoulder though.

 

[darkless]

Once when someone pushed me off a 40 foot cliff i landed on the tiniest ledge you have ever seen about 10 feet down.

 

[JRCB]

I once went to the ER because I had a fever of 42C. That's pretty close to dying I suppose.

edit: That's 107F for those of you who use Fahrenheit... Down with Fahrenheit, it makes no sense.

Uh.
Not to get off topic but, Fahrenheit makes no sense?
Since when?

It makes more sense to say 0 Degrees is 0 Degrees and go from there, unlike Celcius which makes 100 degrees be like 40.

In celsius, 0 degrees is freezing, instead of 32 degrees for faharenheit.

 

[Looking For Alaska]

Once me and two of my friends got lost out in Florida hillbilly country. One of us happened to be black. I later learned that the Ku Klux Klan still had rallies and such out there. When we found a person to ask for directions (an older guy) he pointed a shotgun in my face and told us to leave.

So we did, I also pissed myself.

 

[Simriel]

Once I was incredibly out of my mind (that half awake, half asleep state) and I truly believed I was going to be killed by a monkey who had a Halo gun (don't ask me why). However it was the scariest experience of my life.

I had a similar experience. I had a fever, and was being sttood around by Ringwraiths, crosses with the pigs from Hogs Of War. It may sound funny and silly, but it was genuinly a horrific experience

 

[Keela]

I once went to the ER because I had a fever of 42C. That's pretty close to dying I suppose.

edit: That's 107.6F for those of you who use Fahrenheit... Down with Fahrenheit, it makes no sense.

I am American, and I hate my own systems. It woukd be so nuch simpler if we could be normal and use Celcius.... Anyways, I had a fever close to yours, but I was too young to remember the numbers. I had pneumonia, complicated by empyema (NOT emphysema). Later in life, when I was old enough to understand the odds, my mother told me that the doctor said I had about a one in ten chance for survival.

Also, I had major surgery where the doctor cut out two of my ribs and stuck a tube in my lung to clear out the... buildup. Thought I'd share that