Most terrifing moment

[Stan Carter]

This all took place very quickly, last night wifey and I were sitting watching TV, I was snacking on some Melba toast wafers, like a dry Rusk, being engrossed in the programme I swallowed a mouthful and right away realized it wasn't going down. I sat up and tried to cough it up only to realize I could not breath in. straight away knowing a serious situation was happening, not being able to cough or breath, I started working my throat muscles to try and dislodge the lump, some came up but not all, still couldn't breath fully, I was trying not to panic but wifey was, she asking over and over what to do, I managed to say 911. In the mean time I managed to get a little amount of air in through my nose before it closed off again. again I managed to bring up a little more. The ambulance and paramedics arrived within ten minutes and by that time while bending over the sink I managed bring more up and was able to breath more through my nose.... The medics suggested I sip on a coke, as the carbination would help dissolve and help move any further obstruction. After all the vitals were taken and further assessment done they asked if I wanted to go to the hospital for further assessment because of my age and such, I felt much better and more relaxed and didn't think I needed to go. after more checks they left, stating if anything changed to call or present myself at the hospital.....On reflection I must say that was the most scariest moment I have ever experienced, I had no overall control of my breathing and in the back of my mind I knew time was limited....Over the years I have been in some very scary and dangerous situations, but this was by far the worst...
regards, stan

[Chris Allman]

Glad you are OK Stan, must have been terrifying. Once had a scare, not as bad as yours, with a piece of bacon which was stuck halfway down, fortunately manged to reach it with my fingers and pull it out, scared the you know what out of me. Always very careful nowadays or try to be anyway.

[Doc Vernon]

Moments like that are really scary i am sure,as with me many Years back now when i was sitting as now on the Puter,suddenly a sharp pain starting right through my back and into the Front of my Chest,i too did not know what to do,i was alone as the Wife was at work.
Quick thinking i managed (dont ask me how) to get in the Car and down to the Medical Centre in Penrith (Those Days)
On entering the Centre the Nurse just took one look at me and rushed to my side,called out so loud to the other person behind te Counter to cakk the a Doctor fast!
Withij a few minutes i was in an Ambulance and being rushed to Nepean Hospital.at that time there was not much that i recalled.
I awoke with my Daughter by my side realle worried.
Not long after the Wife arrived.
Had many tests etc and two drips one in aech arm,on observatiojn for two days then off to Westmead Hospital,where i was Operated on for Heat Attack (Three Ateries to the Heart badly blocked} Had Stents inserted and spent next 7 days in Hospital.
Close call I was told but all worked out well.
That was my scariest moment.
Cheers

Hope all is now well with you Stan and do take it easy,its a very easy thing to get chocked and especially as we get older.
Good to see you back here anyway that does indicate that you are a lot better.
Cheers

[Des Taff Jenkins]

Hi Stan.
Glad to hear you got it right, panic is the last thing you need but when it is sudden like that you can't help it your poor wife would have been beside herself. Have had a few including heart attack in 62, but cross legs no problems since.
Des

[Charlie Hannah]

scary Moment for me happened on the morning of the 30th day of October. never will forget it. I had just woke up 5- 30 am sat on the edge of bed, when all of a sudden things started spinning around I remember saying to myself hang on Charlie & gripping on to the edge of the bed real scary. It looked like I was on the fo'c's'le head and everything was falling down around me Said to myself Hang on you will fall off the edge. When things went back to normal I got dressed and got in my car Foolish I know !
Any way they rushed me to a bed they kept me overnight then sent me to Newcastle kept me two days flew me to Port Macqarry they kept me over night then flew me back to
Newcastle, They again kept me overnight then back to Port Macqarry Over night stay again then flew me to Prince of Wales hospital Sydney. A couple days later they operated and put a Pace Maker in. Two or three days later flew me back to Port Macqarry After a couple of days they released me from hospital. All that flying as put me off flying for ever. !Had to go to Port Macqarry about 6weeks later saw two specialist. They both gave me appointments for end of May. Everything seems ok so far apart from pain were never been any pain before real heavy pain just started new medicine yesterday. . My Mate called Kempsey Hospital on the 5th day found out were I was paid a visit gave him my car keys and house keys he picked my car up for me. Very surprised it was still were I had parked it. Very lucky in Kempsey. Cheers Feel fine now!
Just one more Statement. The treatment and attention I received was Fantastic. The food they fed you was of the highest Quality. You would never get better any were.

[happy daze john in oz]

In the September of 2013 few months after my Prostatectomy we were walking along the beach front when a sudden need for the toilet took me.
I found one not far away and went in, what came out of me I have no idea but thought it would not stop.
Got up and almost fell down again. Sat there for a minute or so and managed to get back to the vehicle where I slumped across the wheel and passed out.
How long not sure, maybe 30 seconds.
Came to and had a very vigorous chat with huey out the vehicle door.
Then the wife screamed, on the mat below all manner of crap and blood.
Called the ambos and they said get me to the nature strip by the road side and keep still.
Ambos arrived, took one look and put me inside.
With the blues and twos going like mad I was rushed to the nearest hospital into emergency.
Put on a gurney, stripped of all clothing which was in a mess and seen by the doc.

Put on a drip, one of four I was to have in the next 6 hours to rehydrate me.
Taken to a ward and put to bed.
Next morning further examinations and told that I had suffered a ruptured polyp or two.
Kept in for two days and sent home.
Colonoscopy the following week where a further 4 polyps were burned off.

Since then have had another colonoscopy with a further 3 polyps removed.
Not the best way to spend a Sunday afternoon and evening.

[Colin Pook]

bloody 'ell guys--I wish I had never started reading those threads--put me right off my monjay.!!
My only claim to fame was waking up one night with my heart going berserk one minute, and seemingly stopping the next,
'er indoors phoned the ambulance that arrived pronto, and I heard one para. say to hic mate that my pulse was 42.
Kept me in dry dock for 10 days, that eventually led to having a pacemaker, (which was worse than useless) and finished up
in St. Thomas' London having A/V node ablation, which means I have no natural heart-beat and totally reliant on the box of tricks embedded in my
shoulder.
Hope there was a 50 year warranty with it!!!
Colin
R684420

[Captain Kong]

It was scary in 1974 when the ambulance took me to hospital in severe pain, the paper the doctor gave to the Ambo said suspected brain hemorrhage, I had a Lumber puncture and that was clear so felt better, Then the Doctor said it is Meningitis, so I felt bad, I said , what are my chances, he says , You will either die or end up as a vegetable. so felt bad again.in hospital for three months, could not speak, had to learn how to speak after , took me a year to recover,

Next scary one was in 2013 in Honolulu, Hawaii, in severe pain I walked off the cruise ship and got a taxi to the Queens Medical Centre, in the emergency room after mri and ct scans the Doctor said I would die in 3 to 4 days without treatment, He said, If you had sailed on that ship you would be buried at sea. That was scary.
I had two life saving operations and they saved my life.
I had severe Pancreatitis, a Gangrene gall bladder and cholecystitis, very lucky again.

The most scary one of all was when we were on a beach in Bonza Bay in South Africa in 1953,, I was 18 years old Ken was 20, my mate Ken was swept away by the currents, he could not swim, and I went after him, the tide took us a long way off shore in big waves which battered us, Ken died, and then I lost his body, and then I was so scared I was screaming to God to save me, before going unconscious, A South African lad, David Brinton, swam out with a line and life buoy and found me and towed me in and sent me to hospital. I recovered there. Ken`s body was washed up on the beach five days later. I met David for the 1st time on The Esther Rantzen Show on BBC TV, 48 years later to thank him.

Another one was when I was flying with Court Helicopters out of Cape Town servicing ships passing the Cape,
one very stormy night we went out to the Katrina Maersk, a 350,000 tanker in 60 knot winds,
We had three successive wave over the bow and over the helicopter as we sat on deck. Winchman, Tikki, was swept away, and the pilot Fritz and Stretch said lets go, full throttle. Up we went and then big vibrations as the engine was seizing up due to sea water in the twin turbines and we crashed into the sea, the Tanker made a lea for us, the Swells were up to 60 feet in height.we were lucky that the helicopter had a boat hull and that saved us as we floated after crashing, I was in between the two pilots and was helping in pumping the throttles, we eventually made it to shore after three hours, but not flying just motoring over the heavy sea, I went to hospital there with whiplash of the neck as we hit the sea, and had to wear a neck brace.
The following year the helicopter came down again and Fritz the Pilot was Killed.





There are a few more

[John F Collier]

One scary close call happened many years ago when I worked for BT, I had stopped at the shops for my morning paper and baccy, when I came out of the shop and walked around the back of my van to the drivers cab a delivery lorry crossed from the other side of the road to park outside the shop I'd came from. I just had time to flatten myself against the side of my van as the whole length of the lorry brushed my chest, my shirt was black with
dirt from the lorry, the driver got out and didn't realise how close he came to killing somebody, when I told him
and he saw my shirt and the marks on his lorry's side he was shocked and it scared him .

[Ken Norton]

Had transient global amnesia about 3 years back. Lost it all like a computer crash. Could not remember what I did 2 seconds ago but knew everyone, and had driven home like it. Blue light to hospital, brain scan (yes they found one) all ok (supected brain haemorage). Various other tests all ok. Was like it for about 14 hours, was apparently a very rare condition the A-E Cons. had not come across it before. T.G.A. abbreviated is total loss of short term memory, not sure of causes but can be severe shock, severe cold or extreme physical excersise?? Sexual intercourse was mentioned lol . The good news was that it passed as quick as it appeared with no real hangups afterwards. Disharged within 24 hours and allowed to drive. The consultant told me the chances of having again virtually zilch. Scary for the wife and family but I couldn't remember it. Wife said it was almost as if I was p###ed.lol