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#15 by jusbnme on 17 Apr, 2008 11:30
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About 10 years ago I got way too drunk and like an idiot got behind the wheel. Long story short I ended up wrapping my car around a tree. I blacked out for a minute or two and went off the road. The driver's side of the car slammed into a tree and the car was totaled. I climbed out without a scratch at all. Just sort of sore the next day. The rescue crew couldn't stop talking about how they couldn't believe I was still alive. Plus without a scratch for that matter. As did everyone else that saw the car until it was sent to the junk yard. I still count my lucky stars to this day. The main thing I thanked God for was that I didn't kill or injure anyone else. The best thing that came from it was that I cut back on drinking a whole lot. Definitely never got behind the wheel again even after a sip.
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#16 by Mikekoz13 on 17 Apr, 2008 11:38
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Lance's story reminded me that on April 24th of 2006 on a beautiful Spring morning I was in a pretty serious car accident. i accidentally ran a stop sign, realized it at the last second, and swerved to avoid an accident aith a car coming the other way thru the intersection. He clipped my back end and my SUV went up onto the two wheels on the drivers side. I couldn't get the other wheels back to the ground before the car rolled over onto the driver's side, slid about 30 feet and then flipped onto the roof before sliding another 50 feet.
i was hanging upside down by the seatbelt but couldn't get it unsnapped. i was on a side street in a neighborhood and yelled for help. A guy i actuall knew was working on a road crew where it happened and came running and said, "Is that you Mike?". he and another guy kind of lifted me up, i unsnapped the seatbelt, and crawled out thru the demolished and now very small window. The car was totalled.
Only mark on me was a small chemical burn on my bicep from where the airbag hit me. The paramedics were shocked that i wasn't hurt.
My pride was more hurt the next day when the photo of my demolished SUV, lying on it's roo,f appeared in the local paper with my name under the photo. -
#17 by jusbnme on 17 Apr, 2008 11:43
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Lance's story reminded me that on April 24th of 2006 on a beautiful Spring morning I was in a pretty serious car accident. i accidentally ran a stop sign, realized it at the last second, and swerved to avoid an accident aith a car coming the other way thru the intersection. He clipped my back end and my SUV went up onto the two wheels on the drivers side. I couldn't get the other wheels back to the ground before the car rolled over onto the driver's side, slid about 30 feet and then flipped onto the roof before sliding another 50 feet.
i was hanging upside down by the seatbelt but couldn't get it unsnapped. i was on a side street in a neighborhood and yelled for help. A guy i actuall knew was working on a road crew where it happened and came running and said, "Is that you Mike?". he and another guy kind of lifted me up, i unsnapped the seatbelt, and crawled out thru the demolished and now very small window. The car was totalled.
Only mark on me was a small chemical burn on my bicep from where the airbag hit me. The paramedics were shocked that i wasn't hurt.
My pride was more hurt the next day when the photo of my demolished SUV, lying on it's roo,f appeared in the local paper with my name under the photo.
Glad you made it through buddy.
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#18 by Mikekoz13 on 17 Apr, 2008 11:47
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Lance's story reminded me that on April 24th of 2006 on a beautiful Spring morning I was in a pretty serious car accident. i accidentally ran a stop sign, realized it at the last second, and swerved to avoid an accident aith a car coming the other way thru the intersection. He clipped my back end and my SUV went up onto the two wheels on the drivers side. I couldn't get the other wheels back to the ground before the car rolled over onto the driver's side, slid about 30 feet and then flipped onto the roof before sliding another 50 feet.
i was hanging upside down by the seatbelt but couldn't get it unsnapped. i was on a side street in a neighborhood and yelled for help. A guy i actuall knew was working on a road crew where it happened and came running and said, "Is that you Mike?". he and another guy kind of lifted me up, i unsnapped the seatbelt, and crawled out thru the demolished and now very small window. The car was totalled.
Only mark on me was a small chemical burn on my bicep from where the airbag hit me. The paramedics were shocked that i wasn't hurt.
My pride was more hurt the next day when the photo of my demolished SUV, lying on it's roo,f appeared in the local paper with my name under the photo.
Glad you made it through buddy.
Yeah.... you and I better never go out for a drive together.
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#19 by jusbnme on 17 Apr, 2008 11:49
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Yeah.... you and I better never go out for a drive together.
LOL
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#20 by herronm on 17 Apr, 2008 12:14
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Great stories. Keep them coming.
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#21 by andrew on 17 Apr, 2008 12:39
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My ex-wife had some serious infertility problems. She went through 5 years of excruciating treatments, involving my giving her big needles every day of hormone drugs. After 5 years of this (7 cycles of artificial insemination and 5 cycles of invetro fertilization) we were on our last try, and like several other attempts, a few embryos were taking briefly and then started dying off, like before. She went to the hospital and they confirmed that they'd all (I think we had 5 embryos put in) aborted.
A week later, she started having some discomfort, went to the infertility clinic and they couldn't figure out what was wrong. They decided to do a pregnancy test and she was pregnant. The doctors were in shock. After having told us it was over, and the doctor recommending that she not try again, given that it was stastically unlikely it would ever work, SHE WAS PREGNANT. 9 months later we had a healthy girl, and now 15 years later she continues to be our little miracle (although a wise ass at 15). The doctors said that given her conditions, it was a miracle.
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#22 by Bald_freak on 18 Apr, 2008 07:46
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it's a miracle that the Freak made it to 30!!!
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#23 by NAVRN on 23 Apr, 2008 19:39
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Congratulations
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#24 by RustyRuss on 23 Apr, 2008 20:54
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While on a local radio station promo trip to Cancun, after just having been certifed as an open water scuba diver, a friend of mine and I rented a jeep to drive down the coast. Made it through a small beach bar between Cancun and Xel HA, the snorkeling place, when we flipped the jeep. I was thrown an estimated 250 feet and landed in a patch of thorns that would have made Brer Rabbit a happy camper. My head hit the roll bar and have a pretty severe head wound. The jeep landed on top of my friend, pinning him between the jeep and, luckily, more thick patches of foliage with lots of thorns. We were cut up, bruise, no broken bones, and was afraid my friend might have internal injuries. The time in the Mexican Hospital was scary as hell. A little girl, who had come in for food poisoning, was given 10 times the medication prescribed by the doctor and the doctor told us she was going to die, a horribly painful death as they had no counter medications. At that point, regardless of how much pain we were in, we wouldn't let them administer any injections. We got a total of 400+ stitches between us and both still alive today 27 years later.
When it's your time, it's your time, or so I always figured.
Great thread, hope you guys all remain safe and, if need be, a miracle comes your way.
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#25 by shakf on 29 Apr, 2008 08:51
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Life and good health in itself is a miracle thank God that I have this blessing
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#26 by PBurke on 29 Apr, 2008 09:31
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my grandpa always said i was his miracle cause i am able to walk. being born with spina-bifida it could have easily been the other way around. i feel like the miracle was that the doctor had the ability to repaip my spine when i was six months old.
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#27 by Bald_freak on 22 May, 2008 11:50
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Still waiting on the Miracle Whip!
Get a bottle of Jergens and make your own Timmay!!!! (just don't share it with us when you do) -
#28 by TheTrucker on 22 May, 2008 13:47
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I've survived two head-on collisions in my life.
The first was back when I was in the Navy and a bunch of us were out partying and cruising the town in a '73 Impala. We wound up getting hit head-on by someone in another Impala who was drunker than we were.
I went through the windshield and was peeled off the hood. I got away with just a few sutures above my right eye.
The second one was the day after Christmas in '04. I hit a patch of black ice up north in my little Geo Tracker and then hit a Lincoln Navigator head-on. I spent two months in the hospital after they cut me out of the car.
The whole right side of my body was crushed and I still walk with a limp because my pelvis was shattered and they had to install three pounds of pins and screws to put everything back together. But I survived it and was even able to return to trucking after 14 months of recovery time despite the doctors saying I'd never work again.
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#29 by Jdogs Better Half on 22 May, 2008 15:50
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We hear about miracles all the time but have you ever had a miracle happen in your life? I'll start:
My son Kody is 11 years old now and just a regular boy. He was born with no problems and the first eight months of his life were as normal as could be. But at 8 months he started having seizures. He was diagnosed with a fairly rare condition called Infantile Spasms. The doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. diagnosed him and told us that his seizures would get worse and that he would begin to lose physical and mental capabilities. In a relatively short time he would wind up in a wheel chair and spend his life there with little quality of life.The diagnosis for 90% of kids with this condition was bleak. We were devastated.
Time went by and the seizures continued relentlessly for five years..... up to 24 seizures a day. But Kody never slid back physically or mentally. About a year into the whole thing i asked one of Kody's doctors why he hadn't wound up in that wheelchair and why he was "normal". The doctor looked me squarely in the eye and said, "I will not question a miracle..... you and your family have been blessed by one".
The seizures stopped just over six years ago and Kode-Man has some mild learning disabilities but he is no doubt our Miracle.
What an awesome thread! Just wondering if you ever found out what caused the seizures to start at 8 months?