Well, I guess. Getting struck by a train is pretty drastic. My friend's older brother died when his car was hit by a train. I don't know the specifics, just he was older and crazy.

We had train tracks without electronic safety gates, when we were 16 and beginning to drive. One night my girl friend was driving me home in her mom's Oldsmobile. The music was blaring, and she pretty much always ran the tracks. This night, I said, "I think I hear a train", so she stopped. Right about this time, a train came barreling down the tracks and we just looked at each other. I have great respect for trains, and keep my distance.


I got caught at 3am in bad weather while driving to my job at the Post Office. The smoke from the grove burning mixed with fog, causing zero visibility on the highway. Which pretty much means you should not stop on the road. However, as I was driving, I looked up to see lights on the top of what was a quarter ton truck.....stopped in the road. I held onto the wheel, and my Chrysler Laser slide under the truck, all the way up to and cracking the windshield. Then, the truck began to move pulling the hood forward like an accordion. I truly felt I was not alone and was being protected.

Very few know this, but I've been shot. It was a fatal gunshot, but I survived, I am alive, and with only a scar to show for it.

I've been in a plane crash where my friend lost his foot & was burned, I've been badly burned in a explosion,... i guess its true, only the good die young,, the explosion was the one where i actually thought i was gonna die

I for one have had so many "close" calls ,I know that I have an angel,I have been taken by the taliban and survived,I have stood eye to eye with a 900 pound grizzly,and have been charged by numerous black bears......and every time i have felt his comforting hand on my shoulder

me just deer and when ya can reach over the fairing and scrach their backs that tooo close, and sparows hitting ya in the shoulders dont feel good too.and hornets how fast can ya stop when your being stung 5 or 6 times and rip off all your cloths?

It's amazing how many people have had experiences that by all right should have found them dead. I know I have had a few myself. The worst strangely enough I can't remember . I always though people lied when they said they didn't remember. But it happens. I am just so grateful that my children and my mother and I all lived through it. Me having the most severe injuries but I am so grateful it was me and not them. It's bad enough they had the injuries they did.I only know the little pieces I remember here or there or it could be the stuff I've been told we aren't really sure. The doctors says it PTSD and that when you have something so horrific happen that your brain thinks you can't deal with it it sometimes blocks it out. So I guess I should be grateful I can't remember the accident.

Even worse was that my children have all been in circumstances where they could or even should have died on more than one occasion. My daughter had to have open heart surgery and they had to stop her heart to do it. I can hardly think about it without shaking sometimes.I've seen my children almost die and that is something I could never live with.I always tell them that we are the luckiest family in the world because we have survived it all and we have all had our share of crap. So from now on it should be smooth sailing.

I've been in a plane crash where my friend lost his foot & was burned, I've been badly burned in a explosion,... i guess its true, only the good die young,, the explosion was the one where i actually thought i was gonna die

I for one have had so many "close" calls ,I know that I have an angel,I have been taken by the taliban and survived,I have stood eye to eye with a 900 pound grizzly,and have been charged by numerous black bears......and every time i have felt his comforting hand on my shoulder

  QUOTE (newbie1011 @ May 2, 2012, 04:44)
Sorry to hear about your Suffering injuries,I think our experiences Make us who we are today,even tho some suck so bad One would like to skip over them.they are a big part of what makes us click...

Sorry I haven't been Free slammin too much lately, they're keeping me pretty busy here at the Mayo Clinic.


I'd kinda like to hear a bit more about that grizzly, Sybie.

holy smoke Sybian, that was intense, and someone was watching over you,

  QUOTE (NRG4U @ April 27, 2012, 22:09)



My life is better because you survived and I know many others feel that way too.