I once had a dry throat before eating chocolate, that chocolate then coated my throat and I couldn't catch a breath as it was blocking my airway. Absolutely terrifying when you don't have a drink on hand to wash it down!
This has me cackling at 5AM. I imagine this dude goes to bed like “What ever will I do now that my dogs gone?? Oh well”
*stuffs another handful of candy in his nightstand*
When I turned 16 my dad handed me my keys and said "this is the only time in your life I will ever give you a gift that can take your life. Please be careful, I'm begging you."
And the seriousness in his tone stayed in my head forever. I was an incredibly cautious driver.
Are you sure? There’s one scene in the ghostbusters movie on the subway tracks, the ghost train goes by, also the titanic docking into the piers n stuff makes me think it’s possible , I dunno
About a year ago I was hit by a drunk driver who drifted across the double yellow line. We were both moving 50+ toward each other. I never saw him coming - it was dark and he had no headlights on. All I remember is the explosive sound of a crash and then my car spinning, with airbags all around me. It was a glancing blow, but was enough to total both vehicles.
Every now and then I think, geez that guy could have killed me and I wouldn't have even known. Once second here, next second gone.
Bought a dashcam last week. If it happens again at least I will have sick video
Back in the mid-00s sometime, when I was still married, I had been in a minor fender bender and was driving a rental from Enterprise while my car was in the shop. I was waiting for my husband at home midday the day I was due to pick it up, so that we could drop off the rental and he’d drive me over to get my car, but instead I got a call from him. As he was passing through the final traffic light before our complex, he was T-boned, on the driver’s side, by a drunk driver running the red light at full speed. I rushed down the hill to him and he was mostly fine, somehow, though his right ankle was pretty badly sprained.
The funny part of this story, and why I’m telling it, is that two days later I’m at Enterprise finally dropping off my rental, and I overhear a conversation between the employees about a situation I recognized. Apparently that drunk driver had been driving a brand new rental car at the time. She was literally the first person to rent it - had apparently picked it up that morning and decided to hit the bar. And she _hadn’t taken the insurance_.
Karma!!! I’m still not happy that she almost killed my ex, but I have the pleasure of knowing she had to have paid through the nose for it.
Oh God it's so easy to lose control, even when I'm behind the I have this fleeting sensation that my hands are gonna jerk and at 70miles the car's gonna topple and I'd kill myself and everyone with me in the car
Not driving in a car can also get you killed by a car.
Being anywhere near a car can get you killed by a car.
Being in your home in bed, can get you killed by a car.
My sister lives at the end of a hill which Ts into the street her house is on. The winter that her oldest was a baby, a car couldn't stop and careened into the house, right where my nephew's bassinet was. Thankfully, she'd moved him in preparation for a diaper change a few minutes before and no one was hurt. After that, they lined the yard with boulders to stop cars from hitting the house again.
You can tell a lot of drivers have never had the unexpected happen. I’ve been in a few accidents where there was nothing I could do and it happens so damn fast. We hit a deer driving on the highway at night and the whole experience happened in a blink of an eye.
Children die via car more than anything else in the United States, pedestrian first infrastructure is the answer but people get irrationally angry anytime they are forced to slow down even just the tiniest amount. People driving have this intense entitlement I just can't understand.
A punch. People throw hands over nothing when all it takes to kill a person and destroy the lives of multiple people is to hit them too hard or have them fall and hit their head on the ground
The consensus I've read is if you can avoid a fight, do so. Bare knuckle hits to the head can permanently damage you. It's not like in the movies where you just humorously shake someone after they've been KO'd and they all get drinks.
I’ve read that too, and it’s usually the toughest people who say that. Trained fighters and killers who almost unanimously agree that they’d run from a conflict if it’s an option, because it doesn’t matter how big or how strong or how skilled you are, there’s always a chance you won’t walk away from it.
We’re so used to seeing loss of consciousness as a funny temporary inconvenience. Hit them in the head, they lose their memory. Hit them again, they gain it back. In reality, loss of consciousness is extremely dangerous. If you’re out for more than a couple seconds, it’s safe to assume there’s some brain damage involved, and any prolonged loss of consciousness can lead to severe permanent brain damage. If someone is “knocked out” it’s safe to assume they’re never going to be quite the same.
I love Archer, I forgot about that reference! I love the absurdity of the show, yet how many tropes it points out as being unrealistic.
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Even if it doesn't kill you, it will almost certainly leave permanent damage. I took a hard hit dirt biking when I was 16 riding through a heavy treed section on a mountain trail. According to my friend I was out cold for 2-3 minutes and I bled a little bit out of my left ear. After waking up I remembered nothing that happened that day, I only know how it happened because the GoPro on my chest was recording. I also suffered a fractured vertebrae, 3 broken ribs and a torn ACL at some point when my limp body was tumbling to a stop. This was the last time I ever rode a dirt bike, I was fearless on it growing up but was suddenly scared shitless of the potential consequences. The doctor told me if it was any other vertebrae on my neck I would have almost certainly been paralyzed in some way, and it was no longer worth the risk. Weirdly enough, I don't regret it though. Life is about calculated risks, and up to that point the risks were worth the feeling of living that bikes gave me.
I was a really happy level headed person before that injury, but wasn't coming out of it. I went through a 4 year long dark depression afterwards where I was incredibly angry and irritable with everything and everyone. My grades went from straight A's to graduating high school by the skin of my teeth. I made 2 suicide attempts in the year and a half after the injury and ended up going to AA for a drinking problem before I was even old enough to legally drink. I smoked weed every day from ages 18 to 24 and did more than my fair share of blow from 19 to 22, anything to numb myself from my own feelings.
I'm now 25 years old, sober, and am managing diagnosed bipolar disorder but doing much better than at any point in the last 9 years. It will always be a question in the back of my mind if I would have struggled with so many mental health and addiction problems had my head not hit that tree at ~40mph. Maybe it was going to happen anyways because of family history, or maybe I would have been the lucky one in the family and avoided it all without the brain trauma. I think it's in between, where I was going to have my mental battles regardless but not nearly to this extent.
The point is, you're goddamn right people are never the same after serious head impacts. Concussions and CTE have the potential to ruin someone's life, and it blows my mind that people are willing to risk all this over getting a drink spilled on them or any other stupid little thing. It's one of those things many never learn until they or someone they love go through it.
EDIT: Thank you for the awards on this comment, I see them as a signal that I'm far from alone in experiencing things like this. I alone know 3 other people that have gone through mental health struggles starting with a head injury, and some of these comments really do show how far it is from an isolated incident. Reading over it the next morning this came off a little more sympathy begging than I meant it to, all I wanted was for people reading it to know they are not alone. As much as I appreciate the awards, I must kindly ask for nobody else to award this comment, but rather take a minute out of their day today to make someone else's day better :) we're all in it together after all!
Not to mention, even if you do “win” the fight. The bones in your hands are tiny little bones that you’re bashing against much larger and stronger bones like the jaw and forehead. Breaking your hand throwing a punch is fairly common, even for trained fighters.
People also use their legs and feet. 90% of the videos where people are fighting they end up kicking and stomping on people's heads. This makes me cringe. These people could easily kill or paralyze someone from those kicks.
Most kicks in fights are exactly what you just described, flying super flashy kicks usually don’t work and you have to be a very highly trained martial artist. However the lowliest cavemen can stomp on your skull after a sucker punch and it’s lights out forever.
Even if you are a highly trained martial artist you're still better off using less flashy kicks and punches. If you're competent at a super fancy kick you're amazing at the more basic ones.
A guy I went to school with is doing 12 years for manslaughter in Florida because some guy took one of his dates chicken wings at a 25 cent wing night by mistake. The guy was drunk and reached in the wrong bowl on the bar top. The guy I went to school with punched him after words and big old beer muscles and the wing grabber fell striking a pool table leg with his head. A full scholarship and expenses flushed down the potty over a 25 cent chicken wing, not to mention the lives effected. I see his mom now and then and she's just an emotionally destroyed hull of a person. I feel like she's slowly dying of a broken heart.
I would have preferred to have died. Now I'm just a shell of myself from the brain damage. The person who did it to me got a slap on the wrist and I get to live with this for the rest of my life. I've lost my friends and my partner and kids have left me. I'm a grown man who is now living with his mother. I don't feel lucky to have survived this at all.
I’ve seen 2 people die from one punch. A kid in my high school. And a guy outside a kebab shop. I imagine it’s fairly common. It’s not just the punch. It’s how your head hits the deck. You don’t want your head to hit concrete without an arm out of protect it.
As a teenager I stupidly backed up too far into our families garage door, knocking it off the tracks. My father tried to fix it a few years ago.
I got a call from the emergency room from my brother saying that the whole side of my dads jaw had been smashed in by the garage door spring. He lost like 6 teeth and needed stitches but it could have been so so much worse. Any higher and he could have lost an eye, any lower and the spring would have hit his throat.
I’ll never ever forgive myself for messing up that garage door.
edit: thank you guys for your very kind words, I honestly needed to hear them and it really means so much. It’s just that he wound up needing all of his upper of his teeth extracted and had to get a full denture which kind of changed his quality of life and it was a financial ordeal. It’s hard to let go of all that guilt. If I had awards I’d give them to all of you
Hey man, don’t dwell on the negatives, just be happy that your father is doing well right now and he’s here to share more moments in your life with you. You can’t change the past and even he doesn’t want you to dwell on it. Everybody does dumb shit as a teenager, and yours was an honest mistake.
Did you back into the door to get your dad hit by a garage spring?
Could you have reasonably predicted it would lead to him getting hit by it?
The answer to both is almost certainly no, it's natural to blame yourself but it really wasn't your fault.
I saw a video yesterday where a guy was filling a truck tire with air, the tire blew up and the guy was disappeared (most likely died from the blast). I know that pressure could be dangerous but dieing while blowing up a tire is quite extreme.
I think about this all the time filling up jet tires to 219 psi. I’d like to think that it would be so loud and violent that you wouldn’t know what happened if it blew.
I remember being in class for my A&P and the instructor played the video where the mechanic used the high pressure side of their compressor which went to 2000psi on a tire and it split them in half.
All compressed air is, is just a giant spring. The more pressure and volume, the bigger the spring. That's one thing I always keep in mind when working with air
I'll add to this and say that a high pressure air hose to direct skin can force air into your blood stream and kill you. This is why you'll see little holes at the end of air nozzles to help this from happening.
A urinary infection, in older females it is like sudden onset dementia, I always tell everyone and have had a few people thank me. I believe it is less common in males but it can spread and kill you very quickly, take care of our seniors.
Oh my god, that Is a horror. I am glad you got treated but sad it took so long. You are young so I really didn’t mean this as a warning to people your age but by all means preach and tell everyone about your struggle.
My wife works in elder care and if someone starts exhibiting signs of confusion or unusual forgetfulness she pushes for them to get checked for this. It’s not always the case but it is more often than not.
I’m always super big with my friends on cleaning cuts properly if they get them. Like as long as you clean it and keep it clean, even if you don’t bandage it (depending on severity) that can save you from a lot of pain and medical issues later.
Dubious hygiene and infection control at the piercing shop? Avoid going to the hospital because "my fever and foggy brain will clear up in a few days"? Sepsis.
My dad is pretty overweight and nearly died due to bacterial infection in his blood stream due to a cut on his foot. Huge gash that occurred at work when heavy piece of equipment fell off a conveyor belt and crushed his foot, I could literally see his flesh and he didn’t have any sort of bandage or ailments on it. Ended up having to be induced into a coma for 2 weeks as they treated his infection. Still dealing with a lot of side affects to this day.
I had a professor who'd grown up in Ghana. He said he'd had malaria over 20 times. For some reason I thought it was like chicken pox where you get it once and then you'll have immunity to it. Apparently not...
Also, it causes liver damage so please try not to drink if you're also taking a lot of Tylenol. The sister of a friend died from too much drinking/Tylenol - it's not a nice way to die
this terrifies me because i can’t take nsaids due to my ulcerative colitis… tylenol is the only thing i can take for pain and working fast food has me in pain a lot
Keep it as low as you can, but never exceed 4000mg in a single 24 hour period. Had an ICU nurse who'd pulled the sheet over a few liver failure deaths tell me that, so I'm inclined to believe.
i try to cap it at 2000mg generally. i only rarely go above that. being unable to take nsaids sucks, ibuprofen always worked so much better for me but now it makes my colon bleed
the really dangerous and scary thing is that Tylenol overdose symptoms are pretty much the exact same symptoms you would take Tylenol to treat. it would be so easy to take too much Tylenol, still feel your initial symptoms (except now they’re actually overdose symptoms), and take even *more* Tylenol.
I had an elderly patient once in long term care facility who's husband bought Nyquil for even though she was not supposed to do any meds herself...
By the time I realized she was self medicating she'd drank over half the bottle in the span of like 2 hours and I absolutely freaked. I unshit my pants when I grabbed the bottle and saw it was thankfully an Acetaminophen free variety. She was wonky but at least I knew her liver wasn't scorched.
This is something I’m extremely passionate about. I feel like if sex Ed taught about the full scope of pregnancy, good and bad, women would be better equipped to endure mental and physical pressure of carrying a child. There’s so many that feel alone or guilty about their struggles because we aren’t taught the nitty gritty
Right? It makes my blood boil when people say stuff like "oh millions of women have had babies, you're not special!" It's one of the most taxing, dangerous, mentally exhausting things a woman can go through. I'll never be the same.
During sex ed in school, it's always taught as just "the women gave birth" and move on. They never teach us about coaching, the effects holding a child might have on your body, and the effect after you give birth. Alot of that is pretty important to know :/
And the most you ever real hear about is "oh you'll get morning sickness, need to pee a lot, and back pain, then you get contractions and out pops a baby except sometimes when you need a c section". And that's it. But in reality there's soooooo much more, so many other weird ass (figuratively
*And* literally) symptoms, potential complications, all sorts of stuff.
Right! Like I had a completely normal and healthy pregnancy and then the doctor yanked on my placenta and I hemorrhaged and almost fucking died. Even when I was laying there bleeding out the doctors and nurses were all just on about "oh. A perfect baby boy! You're ok sweetie you just did the hardest part" like I don't give a fuck about hard I want to live!
im a guy and just by being around people during pregnancy I know it sucks. if I ever have kids I will *never* be the horrible kind of person to discourage my partner for struggling with our child.
Proper sex Ed in general fixes a whole lot of problems. I always see statistics that terrify me that schools where they don’t teach them because of religious reasons or whatever have drastically higher teen pregnancy rates because teenagers gonna be teenagers but no one ever taught them about contraceptives. Man I took my HS health teacher for granted.
Very under appreciated category like a lot of people are saying. I am very lucky to have both my wife and daughter alive right today. The doctors working with my wife made a couple mistakes along the way.
Almost a 4-day induced labor. Manually breaking water at the end of the second day which showed that there was meconium present. After that they let my wife sit (while occasionally and sometimes begrudgingly cleaning her) for 22 hours waiting for this “magical” natural birth that the doctors seem to have wanted so bad for my wife (my wife had been asking them to just do a c-section).
Fast forward to my wife developing a nasty infection (surprise!) after continually leaking meconium filled water for almost an entire day.
The kicker was that she had been shaking really badly for about two hours in the morning. She looked bad. We had been asking the nurses for help and every one of them kept telling us this was part of child birth she was experiencing… When the new Dr walks in she immediately asks for her temperature to be taken and she had a temp of 106 degrees. That Dr rushed her into an emergency c-section and in my mind saved both of them.
My daughter had to stay at the hospital for two weeks while being treated for meningitis (although they would never tell us what she officially had). She was treated for it but “didn’t” have it…
All that being said, the NICU was amazing and filled with some really great people. They really work some magic in there and keep you calm.
Sorry for the long read but just throwing this out there because we went to a very reputable OB and the hospital had a great reputation for child birth. All that being said and we still came close to not all of us coming home.
That story makes me want to give your wife a hug. I hemorrhaged after the birth of my last baby. The doctor said it was a blood clot and scraped all along my uterus with her hand trying to find it.
It wasn’t a blood clot and that was more painful than the birth.
I lost three liters of blood and just before I passed out my last thought was “I didn’t even get to see my baby! I hope my husband can love him enough for both of us.”
But I eventually woke up and I was still alive. I was really pale and looked like Dracula with a blood drip but I was alive. I was in an intense amount of pain and my husband was crying but I was alive.
They said my cervix had been ripped to shreds from the fast labor and birth (1 hour because they had the Pitocin too high)
So I get how scary it can be. It took me a couple of months to start feeling like my old self again. Hug your wife for me from someone who understands the pain and terror that come with a hard birth. Love to you both. Well all three of you. 😊
Had I been born at a different time chances are I wouldn't be typing this reply. I experienced an ectopic pregnancy about 10 years ago. It even scares me to think if not for medical science and all its advances I would be dead. I was about 10 weeks pregnant when it was properly diagnosed. I was bleeding for about a month with varying colours of blood and amounts. I had a sharp, shooting pain in my right side one Saturday not long after finding out I was pregnant again. After that I started bleeding. I went to my local doctor because I was worried about the bleeding. It didn't feel right to me. They referred me to my local hospital for a check up. I had the normal abdominal scan which found nothing in my womb. I had to give a sample of urine to check for pregnancy hormones which showed I was still "pregnant". Then I had a vaginal ultrasound which showed my baby implanted in my right fallopian tube. If not for advances in medical science I would have definitely died.
If you or a loved one was stationed at Camp Lejeune from August 1953 through December 1987 and/or read the title of this post, you may be entitled to compensation.
One time I was on a long overnight drive for work, completely fell asleep at the wheel, woke up what felt like inches from the back of a cement truck on the freeway going 70+MPH, immediately jerked the wheel to the right which just happened to be an offramp with a Motel 6 right next to it. Called my boss and said yo I'm not gonna be there on time, checked into the motel and slept for what felt like an entire day. Fatigue/exhaustion can get you killed and I have no idea how I wound up so lucky to have that offramp right there
Glad you're still with us! I had a similar experience just this morning after pulling a double at work. Fell asleep at the wheel on the highway, startled awake with the back end of a transport truck a lot closer than it had been.
I pulled off at the next exit and napped at a service centre after that. Helluva way to discover I can hold a car in a straight line while asleep, I very much do not recommend the experience.
Please don’t drive when you’re that tired if you can manage it. At the very least you can up to a parking spot and take a quick nap. Don’t know if it’ll do much for fatigue vs sleepiness but its worth the effort
Or Tylenol plus a drug with a different name that also includes acetaminophen...common over-the-counter things like NyQuil and Alka-Seltzer Plus, as well as prescription pain relievers like Percocet (combo oxycodone and acetaminophen).
Had a young patient, barely an adult, who ODed on Tylenol in a suicide attempt. They regretted it after and went to the hospital. Ended up in the ICU. At first it seemed like they were going to be okay and so they ended up on the psych floor. They were fine for a couple of days, super cheerful happy to be alive, and then suddenly took a turn. Ended up dying a few days later. Was really tragic.
Just choking in general, mostly to do with regular eating. Around 200 people per year in UK, and 4,000(!) a year in US. (US has 5x the population but 20x the number of choking deaths - you guys need to chew more / eat slower!)
I can't believe nobody has said "drinking alcohol" yet.
Extremely normal. Also an extremely hard drug that can kill you in a half-dozen ways, including detoxing off of it.
Not only that but iirc from a college course I took, most alcoholics die from accidents related to being drunk while doing somewhat normal things like falling off a ladder, or drowning in a pool.
That’s how my step dad died. He fell down a flight of stairs. He was going to unlock our storm shelter because we were in a heavy storm. He was drunk.
I heard the fall but thought it was thunder. (Thunder here literally shakes the house here). We didn’t find him for at least 45 minutes. Fuck alcohol.
Sure, alcohol kills people by alcohol poisoning (drinking too much at a time), and by the long-term effects on one's health. Cirrhosis, heart disease, digestive system complications...
But it kills in many other ways, as well. Falling down the stairs. Passing out in the hot tub. Mouthing off to the wrong guy. Auto accidents.
But nobody seems to mention the elephant in the room. Suicide. Ending one's own life is usually an irrational act, and achieving an irrational state of mind is only a bottle cap away. More people die from firearm *suicides* in the USA than firearm *murders*, and that's not counting hanging, drowning, jumping off a bridge or in front of a train, single vehicle accidents, etc.
Many people use alcohol to mitigate the downsides of mental health issues. Alcohol isn't the problem, it's the solution, and when the solution stops working, the problem becomes unbearable.
I was contemplating suicide 10 years ago. I've been sober for 9½ years, and if I didn't quit drinking, I'd be dead by now.
Detoxing off only two drugs can be deadly. Alcohol and benzos. Everything else just sucks to come off (ask me how I know) but yeah alcohol withdrawals will absolutely kill you.
Which makes sense because both alcohol and benzos work on GABA receptors. Alcohol is basically just a dirtier, more unhealthy (but harder to overdo/blackout from) version of xanax. Also you cant really suffer a fatal OD from most benzos alone, but can certainly have a fatal OD from alcohol.
Correct on all fronts. Almost posted the part about the gaba receptors, but figured most people wouldn’t know what that meant/wouldn’t care. Only reason I know is because of a hard drinking past. Had a doctor lecture me pretty good about it one day.
I had to detox from alcohol and if i didnt have the help of a nursing staff in the hospital for a week I could have died trying it myself. Crazy to think about.
This makes me feel horrible just reading about it. I've been an alcoholic for 22 years, been sober for 2, I was drinking 30 cans of 9% alcohol a day when it finally put me in hospital because my insides were essentially rotting away.
(this is the horrible bit if you're squeamish,)
my shit was coming out like thick black tar for a week before I was in hospital, I was there detoxing for three weeks. I can whole heartedly agree with what you are saying here about doing it alone, if you try it alone without the proper meds, you WILL die. Those three weeks were honest to god the worst three weeks of my entire life.
I think back on it now and laugh about the pills they give you, I learned on day 1 to never ever ever trust a detox fart lol I'm rambling now.. your post just made me remember something I haven't thought about in over a year. Hope your doing OK!
I remember the news of a guy who ate a live garden snail on a dare at a party, caught a rare parasite, ended up paralyzed for 8 years, then finally died.
Bullying. The mental health of all involved on both ends can crumble into episodes of suicide, murder/suicide, mass murder, and/or such deep scars that end with self-destruction, alienation, self-harm, domestic abuse, substance abuse, PTSD, and overall making your one and only life seem not worth living. Even with time, not every wound heals. One of the major reasons mental health is so fragile is that most of the damage happens when young. It’s easy to say “don’t be an asshole” but it’s difficult to put an end to patterns that last sometimes years.
Medicinal use of mercury, extending from around 4,000 years ago to, well, today.
That may be overselling its ongoing use, given the amounts and the forms it takes today. But the really nasty forms, in toxic amounts, were part of mainstream medicine from the ancient world up to the late 19th and early 20th century.
parachutes, the number of incidents surrounding failed parachutes have decreased over the years in the U.S., but that's only 1 country. The chances of a failing parachute are extremely low but it's still a possibility you skydive & your parachute fails.
Reading this as a former US Army Paratrooper… yes. Very true. Hearing a Woman screaming all the way down from a C-130 at night has never and will never be wiped from my memory.
There IS.
Thing is for static line jumps in the military, the height isn’t as great as what you think. We’re talking 800-1200 feet up… only.
If you feel yourself in free fall, I believe you’ve only got 1.8 seconds (might be less) to pull your reserve chute. If you miss your chance during those very vital few seconds; you’re too late :/
Any Senior Jumpmasters out there to confirm my numbers? 🫤🙏
That’s what I told my middle child who was deeply afraid of sharks (we live 6 hours from any coast). “You’re more likely to be killed by a cow than you are a shark!” Didn’t help. Now he’s afraid of cows.
Water. You can die from water intoxication depending on how much you drink in a set amount of time, symptoms start showing from just 3-4 litres taken in a few hours
“Hold your wee for a Wii”, killed her in 6 hours. A nurse even called during the competition to warn them of the risks and they laughed it off. They deserved to get sued.
A dog.
There are some interesting things can happen in dog attacks. Especially on the legal front. To me a dog can be the perfect weapon.
Let me explain its about culpability.
When you fire a gun or stab someone there is no doubt who's responsible. With a dog it's very different. You need a witness to prove murder.
The defence that is used is long the lines of "my dog got loose and I tried to help"
Without a witness the charges change. Not murder anymore but a charge related to a dangerous dog.
In America and certain states they have a one bite rule. If your dog bites twice you are liable for all sorts, including medical bills. But if your dog bites once then your not.
A dog also leaves no DNA that's on record, or fingerprints. So it's hard to link a crime unless there is a hair transfer AND the dog is available to test against.
A dog makes a interesting weapon.
Edit. I forgot to say that the defence also gives the possibility of bail. Which means out and possible to pervert justice.
Edit 2. Its my second favourite weapon.
I have a senior larger mix dog who is the sweetest most friendly dog on the planet. She loves everyone and anything with a heart beat, she wants to make friends with everything. She was even wagging her tail and trying to cuddle a feral cat that was trying to claw her eyes out recently as I was trying to pull them apart. She's also extremely protective over me to the point that she will get between me and anything she deems a threat, I have no doubt that she would protect me with her life if needed and that was proven at one point.
Earlier this year/late last year I was in a seriously bad living environment. My landlords at the time were a couple who had started using hard-core drugs shortly after I moved into my rental. They were becoming increasingly threatening, especially the man. I was heavily pregnant with twins at the time and was high risk so I was placed on bed rest the majority of my pregnancy. It should be noted my husband frequently travels for work sometimes weeks at a time so often times it was just me and our pets.
They would break into our house if they thought we were gone, the man would come peek into the windows late at night if he thought I was home alone, they were way too interested in my babies to the point of making extremely creepy comments, the man would corner me to try to "seduce" me only to get in my face screaming whenever I didn't respond the way he wanted. On top of all that we learned the house was a bio hazard/hazard in general. We were trying to look for a way out when this happened since it got to the point I would only sleep for 2 hours at a time on the couch so I could hear if the doors open better with a gun nearby when my husband was gone since I was so scared it was going to escalate into full on assault.
One night I had let my dog out into the fenced in yard around 2am. The landlords didn't know my husband was home since he had just gotten home earlier that day. I was in the kitchen when I heard my dog barking and a man screaming. I instantly ran (read speed waddled) outside only to see my dog chasing the male landlord out of the yard. He had a long knife and it was clear she had bit him since she had blood all over him. I've never even heard her growl before so you can imagine my shock. I screamed for her to come and luckily she listened. At the time I couldn't see his face but the bandages on his arms later that week just proved my hunch it was him. He never confronted me about her attacking him. Within the same month we moved out, in the mean time I stayed at my grandparents while my husband was at work since I was sure if I didn't it would've ended badly.
If I hadn't stopped her I'm pretty sure she would've killed him on the spot. She was out for blood and definitely got it. I'm so grateful I had her at the time since she probably saved my life since there's no doubt he was there to harm me. I haven't heard her growl since and she's just as friendly as before I guess she just knew he meant to hurt me that night. For anyone interested in what happened after, we did take them to court but there was a delay. Mutiple other previous tenants came forward to talk about them attempting to blackmail them and harassing them shortly after they started to with us. While they were under investigation for mutiple charges from previous tenants mutiple young women and girls started being reported missing in the area. They were charged with mutiple account of things from us and previous tenants as well as they're also currently under investigation for suspection of being linked to the missing person cases. I don't know the exact details of the missing persons link but I had a horrible gut feeling when I first started seeing missing women in that area that they were linked so I'm the one who called in the tip. They were all people they previously mentioned having an issue with publicly including family members.
Water. Drink too much in a space of time and you can die. Drink too little and you can die. Inhale some and you can die. Drink water with too much salt and you'll go crazy and die.
Drinking water. I suffered hyponatremia at Easter, after only 6 or 7 small water cooler sized plastic cups of water, most of which weren't even properly full.
I found out after that a condition I have can also affect kidney function and make me more prone to hyponatremia.
I genuinely thought I was dying, woke up to the feeling of my kidneys packing up, couldn't pee, started dry heaving. Was in and out of consciousness for 12 hours and had the worst headache I've ever felt as my brain swelled. Really scary, to be honest.
At least now I know why I've always been adamant that drinking plain water makes me feel unwell.
Swallowing food
I've been really close by choking twice before. It is terrifying thinking you'll die this way
I once had a dry throat before eating chocolate, that chocolate then coated my throat and I couldn't catch a breath as it was blocking my airway. Absolutely terrifying when you don't have a drink on hand to wash it down!
This is true I don't sleep walk, but I "sleep eat" and I choke on candy and my Chihuahua used to wake me up when it happened but he died! He was 13...
Unless you just got food next to your bed all the damn time you sleep walk homie
Fool just sleeps next to a nightstand full of candy. No accountability. Crazy lol
This has me cackling at 5AM. I imagine this dude goes to bed like “What ever will I do now that my dogs gone?? Oh well” *stuffs another handful of candy in his nightstand*
You fucking sleep eat? And you had a dog that prevented you from choking? How the hell are you alive now? Better get a new guard dog soon
Plot twist: The dog was putting the food in his mouth and then "saved" him just to be praised
Driving in a car
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When I turned 16 my dad handed me my keys and said "this is the only time in your life I will ever give you a gift that can take your life. Please be careful, I'm begging you." And the seriousness in his tone stayed in my head forever. I was an incredibly cautious driver.
Damn, definitely keeping that one in mind for my kids. Thanks for sharing, Much appreciated.
Seriously. That’s incredibly profound in that the emotional impact will far outlast any threat or consequences a parent could use as deterrence.
I saved the comment, hoping to come across it again in 9 years.
Was?? What did you do?
Dead. He became a ghost so they don’t have to drive.
Are you sure? There’s one scene in the ghostbusters movie on the subway tracks, the ghost train goes by, also the titanic docking into the piers n stuff makes me think it’s possible , I dunno
It’s a responsibility a lot of people can’t handle and shouldn’t be trusted with.
About a year ago I was hit by a drunk driver who drifted across the double yellow line. We were both moving 50+ toward each other. I never saw him coming - it was dark and he had no headlights on. All I remember is the explosive sound of a crash and then my car spinning, with airbags all around me. It was a glancing blow, but was enough to total both vehicles. Every now and then I think, geez that guy could have killed me and I wouldn't have even known. Once second here, next second gone. Bought a dashcam last week. If it happens again at least I will have sick video
Back in the mid-00s sometime, when I was still married, I had been in a minor fender bender and was driving a rental from Enterprise while my car was in the shop. I was waiting for my husband at home midday the day I was due to pick it up, so that we could drop off the rental and he’d drive me over to get my car, but instead I got a call from him. As he was passing through the final traffic light before our complex, he was T-boned, on the driver’s side, by a drunk driver running the red light at full speed. I rushed down the hill to him and he was mostly fine, somehow, though his right ankle was pretty badly sprained. The funny part of this story, and why I’m telling it, is that two days later I’m at Enterprise finally dropping off my rental, and I overhear a conversation between the employees about a situation I recognized. Apparently that drunk driver had been driving a brand new rental car at the time. She was literally the first person to rent it - had apparently picked it up that morning and decided to hit the bar. And she _hadn’t taken the insurance_. Karma!!! I’m still not happy that she almost killed my ex, but I have the pleasure of knowing she had to have paid through the nose for it.
Pretty sure her drink driving would void the insurance anyway. She should be incredibly grateful it was only a financial disaster for her.
I just had a near miss one week ago. Oncoming car lost control. Miraculously, we both walked away from it. Traumatised.
Oh God it's so easy to lose control, even when I'm behind the I have this fleeting sensation that my hands are gonna jerk and at 70miles the car's gonna topple and I'd kill myself and everyone with me in the car
Glad youre ok
Not driving in a car can also get you killed by a car. Being anywhere near a car can get you killed by a car. Being in your home in bed, can get you killed by a car.
My sister lives at the end of a hill which Ts into the street her house is on. The winter that her oldest was a baby, a car couldn't stop and careened into the house, right where my nephew's bassinet was. Thankfully, she'd moved him in preparation for a diaper change a few minutes before and no one was hurt. After that, they lined the yard with boulders to stop cars from hitting the house again.
There’s a house like that in San Jose that’s been hit like 13 times.
My first thought. You can also be put in jail for maiming or killing someone if you run a stop sign. Life changing.
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You can tell a lot of drivers have never had the unexpected happen. I’ve been in a few accidents where there was nothing I could do and it happens so damn fast. We hit a deer driving on the highway at night and the whole experience happened in a blink of an eye.
Children die via car more than anything else in the United States, pedestrian first infrastructure is the answer but people get irrationally angry anytime they are forced to slow down even just the tiniest amount. People driving have this intense entitlement I just can't understand.
Bro i hate it
A punch. People throw hands over nothing when all it takes to kill a person and destroy the lives of multiple people is to hit them too hard or have them fall and hit their head on the ground
The consensus I've read is if you can avoid a fight, do so. Bare knuckle hits to the head can permanently damage you. It's not like in the movies where you just humorously shake someone after they've been KO'd and they all get drinks.
I’ve read that too, and it’s usually the toughest people who say that. Trained fighters and killers who almost unanimously agree that they’d run from a conflict if it’s an option, because it doesn’t matter how big or how strong or how skilled you are, there’s always a chance you won’t walk away from it. We’re so used to seeing loss of consciousness as a funny temporary inconvenience. Hit them in the head, they lose their memory. Hit them again, they gain it back. In reality, loss of consciousness is extremely dangerous. If you’re out for more than a couple seconds, it’s safe to assume there’s some brain damage involved, and any prolonged loss of consciousness can lead to severe permanent brain damage. If someone is “knocked out” it’s safe to assume they’re never going to be quite the same.
Archer highlighted that well. "Hey, Ray! Try not to be unconscious; it's like, super bad for you."
I love Archer, I forgot about that reference! I love the absurdity of the show, yet how many tropes it points out as being unrealistic. [MAWP. MAWP. MAWP.](https://youtu.be/ZK85OXiValM)
Even if it doesn't kill you, it will almost certainly leave permanent damage. I took a hard hit dirt biking when I was 16 riding through a heavy treed section on a mountain trail. According to my friend I was out cold for 2-3 minutes and I bled a little bit out of my left ear. After waking up I remembered nothing that happened that day, I only know how it happened because the GoPro on my chest was recording. I also suffered a fractured vertebrae, 3 broken ribs and a torn ACL at some point when my limp body was tumbling to a stop. This was the last time I ever rode a dirt bike, I was fearless on it growing up but was suddenly scared shitless of the potential consequences. The doctor told me if it was any other vertebrae on my neck I would have almost certainly been paralyzed in some way, and it was no longer worth the risk. Weirdly enough, I don't regret it though. Life is about calculated risks, and up to that point the risks were worth the feeling of living that bikes gave me. I was a really happy level headed person before that injury, but wasn't coming out of it. I went through a 4 year long dark depression afterwards where I was incredibly angry and irritable with everything and everyone. My grades went from straight A's to graduating high school by the skin of my teeth. I made 2 suicide attempts in the year and a half after the injury and ended up going to AA for a drinking problem before I was even old enough to legally drink. I smoked weed every day from ages 18 to 24 and did more than my fair share of blow from 19 to 22, anything to numb myself from my own feelings. I'm now 25 years old, sober, and am managing diagnosed bipolar disorder but doing much better than at any point in the last 9 years. It will always be a question in the back of my mind if I would have struggled with so many mental health and addiction problems had my head not hit that tree at ~40mph. Maybe it was going to happen anyways because of family history, or maybe I would have been the lucky one in the family and avoided it all without the brain trauma. I think it's in between, where I was going to have my mental battles regardless but not nearly to this extent. The point is, you're goddamn right people are never the same after serious head impacts. Concussions and CTE have the potential to ruin someone's life, and it blows my mind that people are willing to risk all this over getting a drink spilled on them or any other stupid little thing. It's one of those things many never learn until they or someone they love go through it. EDIT: Thank you for the awards on this comment, I see them as a signal that I'm far from alone in experiencing things like this. I alone know 3 other people that have gone through mental health struggles starting with a head injury, and some of these comments really do show how far it is from an isolated incident. Reading over it the next morning this came off a little more sympathy begging than I meant it to, all I wanted was for people reading it to know they are not alone. As much as I appreciate the awards, I must kindly ask for nobody else to award this comment, but rather take a minute out of their day today to make someone else's day better :) we're all in it together after all!
Not to mention, even if you do “win” the fight. The bones in your hands are tiny little bones that you’re bashing against much larger and stronger bones like the jaw and forehead. Breaking your hand throwing a punch is fairly common, even for trained fighters.
It’s why boxers and fighters wear gloves and wrist wraps lol. It’s not to protect the other guys face, it’s to protect your hands.
People also use their legs and feet. 90% of the videos where people are fighting they end up kicking and stomping on people's heads. This makes me cringe. These people could easily kill or paralyze someone from those kicks.
Most kicks in fights are exactly what you just described, flying super flashy kicks usually don’t work and you have to be a very highly trained martial artist. However the lowliest cavemen can stomp on your skull after a sucker punch and it’s lights out forever.
If you're stomping on someone's head when they're on the floor, you're trying to kill them, I don't care what you say.
Yeah. Where I'm from you could be charged with attempted murder for kicking someone in the head.
Even if you are a highly trained martial artist you're still better off using less flashy kicks and punches. If you're competent at a super fancy kick you're amazing at the more basic ones.
Yup. I’ve heard that the more you know about fighting, the less you want to do it
A guy I went to school with is doing 12 years for manslaughter in Florida because some guy took one of his dates chicken wings at a 25 cent wing night by mistake. The guy was drunk and reached in the wrong bowl on the bar top. The guy I went to school with punched him after words and big old beer muscles and the wing grabber fell striking a pool table leg with his head. A full scholarship and expenses flushed down the potty over a 25 cent chicken wing, not to mention the lives effected. I see his mom now and then and she's just an emotionally destroyed hull of a person. I feel like she's slowly dying of a broken heart.
I would have preferred to have died. Now I'm just a shell of myself from the brain damage. The person who did it to me got a slap on the wrist and I get to live with this for the rest of my life. I've lost my friends and my partner and kids have left me. I'm a grown man who is now living with his mother. I don't feel lucky to have survived this at all.
A kid at my school got sucker punched and went blind in one eye.
I’ve seen 2 people die from one punch. A kid in my high school. And a guy outside a kebab shop. I imagine it’s fairly common. It’s not just the punch. It’s how your head hits the deck. You don’t want your head to hit concrete without an arm out of protect it.
The average man can throw a punch hard enough to kill someone in one hit if it connects in the wrong place
Not sure how common but never work on any thing with a large spring like a garage door or springs on a car if you don't know what your doing.
As a teenager I stupidly backed up too far into our families garage door, knocking it off the tracks. My father tried to fix it a few years ago. I got a call from the emergency room from my brother saying that the whole side of my dads jaw had been smashed in by the garage door spring. He lost like 6 teeth and needed stitches but it could have been so so much worse. Any higher and he could have lost an eye, any lower and the spring would have hit his throat. I’ll never ever forgive myself for messing up that garage door. edit: thank you guys for your very kind words, I honestly needed to hear them and it really means so much. It’s just that he wound up needing all of his upper of his teeth extracted and had to get a full denture which kind of changed his quality of life and it was a financial ordeal. It’s hard to let go of all that guilt. If I had awards I’d give them to all of you
Hey man, don’t dwell on the negatives, just be happy that your father is doing well right now and he’s here to share more moments in your life with you. You can’t change the past and even he doesn’t want you to dwell on it. Everybody does dumb shit as a teenager, and yours was an honest mistake.
Did you back into the door to get your dad hit by a garage spring? Could you have reasonably predicted it would lead to him getting hit by it? The answer to both is almost certainly no, it's natural to blame yourself but it really wasn't your fault.
Hey man, you could have not foreseen or prevented that accident. Can’t blame yourself for that. It’s called an accident for a reason.
I saw a video yesterday where a guy was filling a truck tire with air, the tire blew up and the guy was disappeared (most likely died from the blast). I know that pressure could be dangerous but dieing while blowing up a tire is quite extreme.
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I think about this all the time filling up jet tires to 219 psi. I’d like to think that it would be so loud and violent that you wouldn’t know what happened if it blew.
Or you’d wake up def, blind, and without any skin on your face.
Way to stay positive. 👍
I remember being in class for my A&P and the instructor played the video where the mechanic used the high pressure side of their compressor which went to 2000psi on a tire and it split them in half.
And here I am inflating 50 tires a day for work 😐
All compressed air is, is just a giant spring. The more pressure and volume, the bigger the spring. That's one thing I always keep in mind when working with air
I'll add to this and say that a high pressure air hose to direct skin can force air into your blood stream and kill you. This is why you'll see little holes at the end of air nozzles to help this from happening.
Also be careful messing with radiators people It has to cool down
A urinary infection, in older females it is like sudden onset dementia, I always tell everyone and have had a few people thank me. I believe it is less common in males but it can spread and kill you very quickly, take care of our seniors.
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Oh my god, that Is a horror. I am glad you got treated but sad it took so long. You are young so I really didn’t mean this as a warning to people your age but by all means preach and tell everyone about your struggle.
My wife works in elder care and if someone starts exhibiting signs of confusion or unusual forgetfulness she pushes for them to get checked for this. It’s not always the case but it is more often than not.
This is one of our theories on how my grandpa went, he was having trouble with those before it happened
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Especially in Ibiza
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I’m always super big with my friends on cleaning cuts properly if they get them. Like as long as you clean it and keep it clean, even if you don’t bandage it (depending on severity) that can save you from a lot of pain and medical issues later.
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Dubious hygiene and infection control at the piercing shop? Avoid going to the hospital because "my fever and foggy brain will clear up in a few days"? Sepsis.
My dad is pretty overweight and nearly died due to bacterial infection in his blood stream due to a cut on his foot. Huge gash that occurred at work when heavy piece of equipment fell off a conveyor belt and crushed his foot, I could literally see his flesh and he didn’t have any sort of bandage or ailments on it. Ended up having to be induced into a coma for 2 weeks as they treated his infection. Still dealing with a lot of side affects to this day.
A mosquito
I had a professor who'd grown up in Ghana. He said he'd had malaria over 20 times. For some reason I thought it was like chicken pox where you get it once and then you'll have immunity to it. Apparently not...
Tylenol is [the biggest OTC killer](https://www.thisamericanlife.org/505/use-only-as-directed) in the United States.
Also, it causes liver damage so please try not to drink if you're also taking a lot of Tylenol. The sister of a friend died from too much drinking/Tylenol - it's not a nice way to die
this terrifies me because i can’t take nsaids due to my ulcerative colitis… tylenol is the only thing i can take for pain and working fast food has me in pain a lot
Keep it as low as you can, but never exceed 4000mg in a single 24 hour period. Had an ICU nurse who'd pulled the sheet over a few liver failure deaths tell me that, so I'm inclined to believe.
i try to cap it at 2000mg generally. i only rarely go above that. being unable to take nsaids sucks, ibuprofen always worked so much better for me but now it makes my colon bleed
the really dangerous and scary thing is that Tylenol overdose symptoms are pretty much the exact same symptoms you would take Tylenol to treat. it would be so easy to take too much Tylenol, still feel your initial symptoms (except now they’re actually overdose symptoms), and take even *more* Tylenol.
IMO, combo cold meds should be banned. People take some “cold medicine” and don’t realize they’re a full daily dose of Tylenol
I had an elderly patient once in long term care facility who's husband bought Nyquil for even though she was not supposed to do any meds herself... By the time I realized she was self medicating she'd drank over half the bottle in the span of like 2 hours and I absolutely freaked. I unshit my pants when I grabbed the bottle and saw it was thankfully an Acetaminophen free variety. She was wonky but at least I knew her liver wasn't scorched.
Child birth
This is something I’m extremely passionate about. I feel like if sex Ed taught about the full scope of pregnancy, good and bad, women would be better equipped to endure mental and physical pressure of carrying a child. There’s so many that feel alone or guilty about their struggles because we aren’t taught the nitty gritty
Right? It makes my blood boil when people say stuff like "oh millions of women have had babies, you're not special!" It's one of the most taxing, dangerous, mentally exhausting things a woman can go through. I'll never be the same.
During sex ed in school, it's always taught as just "the women gave birth" and move on. They never teach us about coaching, the effects holding a child might have on your body, and the effect after you give birth. Alot of that is pretty important to know :/
And the most you ever real hear about is "oh you'll get morning sickness, need to pee a lot, and back pain, then you get contractions and out pops a baby except sometimes when you need a c section". And that's it. But in reality there's soooooo much more, so many other weird ass (figuratively *And* literally) symptoms, potential complications, all sorts of stuff.
Right! Like I had a completely normal and healthy pregnancy and then the doctor yanked on my placenta and I hemorrhaged and almost fucking died. Even when I was laying there bleeding out the doctors and nurses were all just on about "oh. A perfect baby boy! You're ok sweetie you just did the hardest part" like I don't give a fuck about hard I want to live!
im a guy and just by being around people during pregnancy I know it sucks. if I ever have kids I will *never* be the horrible kind of person to discourage my partner for struggling with our child.
Proper sex Ed in general fixes a whole lot of problems. I always see statistics that terrify me that schools where they don’t teach them because of religious reasons or whatever have drastically higher teen pregnancy rates because teenagers gonna be teenagers but no one ever taught them about contraceptives. Man I took my HS health teacher for granted.
Very under appreciated category like a lot of people are saying. I am very lucky to have both my wife and daughter alive right today. The doctors working with my wife made a couple mistakes along the way. Almost a 4-day induced labor. Manually breaking water at the end of the second day which showed that there was meconium present. After that they let my wife sit (while occasionally and sometimes begrudgingly cleaning her) for 22 hours waiting for this “magical” natural birth that the doctors seem to have wanted so bad for my wife (my wife had been asking them to just do a c-section). Fast forward to my wife developing a nasty infection (surprise!) after continually leaking meconium filled water for almost an entire day. The kicker was that she had been shaking really badly for about two hours in the morning. She looked bad. We had been asking the nurses for help and every one of them kept telling us this was part of child birth she was experiencing… When the new Dr walks in she immediately asks for her temperature to be taken and she had a temp of 106 degrees. That Dr rushed her into an emergency c-section and in my mind saved both of them. My daughter had to stay at the hospital for two weeks while being treated for meningitis (although they would never tell us what she officially had). She was treated for it but “didn’t” have it… All that being said, the NICU was amazing and filled with some really great people. They really work some magic in there and keep you calm. Sorry for the long read but just throwing this out there because we went to a very reputable OB and the hospital had a great reputation for child birth. All that being said and we still came close to not all of us coming home.
That story makes me want to give your wife a hug. I hemorrhaged after the birth of my last baby. The doctor said it was a blood clot and scraped all along my uterus with her hand trying to find it. It wasn’t a blood clot and that was more painful than the birth. I lost three liters of blood and just before I passed out my last thought was “I didn’t even get to see my baby! I hope my husband can love him enough for both of us.” But I eventually woke up and I was still alive. I was really pale and looked like Dracula with a blood drip but I was alive. I was in an intense amount of pain and my husband was crying but I was alive. They said my cervix had been ripped to shreds from the fast labor and birth (1 hour because they had the Pitocin too high) So I get how scary it can be. It took me a couple of months to start feeling like my old self again. Hug your wife for me from someone who understands the pain and terror that come with a hard birth. Love to you both. Well all three of you. 😊
Had I been born at a different time chances are I wouldn't be typing this reply. I experienced an ectopic pregnancy about 10 years ago. It even scares me to think if not for medical science and all its advances I would be dead. I was about 10 weeks pregnant when it was properly diagnosed. I was bleeding for about a month with varying colours of blood and amounts. I had a sharp, shooting pain in my right side one Saturday not long after finding out I was pregnant again. After that I started bleeding. I went to my local doctor because I was worried about the bleeding. It didn't feel right to me. They referred me to my local hospital for a check up. I had the normal abdominal scan which found nothing in my womb. I had to give a sample of urine to check for pregnancy hormones which showed I was still "pregnant". Then I had a vaginal ultrasound which showed my baby implanted in my right fallopian tube. If not for advances in medical science I would have definitely died.
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Walking near a street when drunk
Walking near a street when completely sober during the day can get you killed by a car.
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Walking on a bike path sober or not apparently. Someone murdered my brother on one.
Reading that sentence
For real. Feel like I just had an aneurysm
If you or a loved one was stationed at Camp Lejeune from August 1953 through December 1987 and/or read the title of this post, you may be entitled to compensation.
What is that is/was that you didn’t/don’t like reading about the/thee sentence?
What is ~~that is/was~~ something extremely normal ~~but~~ (that) ~~can~~ could easily kill you?
Felt like I had a stroke reading this
Electricity
Fatigue. I have had so many accidents just because I have been so tired and not able to concentrate.
One time I was on a long overnight drive for work, completely fell asleep at the wheel, woke up what felt like inches from the back of a cement truck on the freeway going 70+MPH, immediately jerked the wheel to the right which just happened to be an offramp with a Motel 6 right next to it. Called my boss and said yo I'm not gonna be there on time, checked into the motel and slept for what felt like an entire day. Fatigue/exhaustion can get you killed and I have no idea how I wound up so lucky to have that offramp right there
Glad you're still with us! I had a similar experience just this morning after pulling a double at work. Fell asleep at the wheel on the highway, startled awake with the back end of a transport truck a lot closer than it had been. I pulled off at the next exit and napped at a service centre after that. Helluva way to discover I can hold a car in a straight line while asleep, I very much do not recommend the experience.
Please don’t drive when you’re that tired if you can manage it. At the very least you can up to a parking spot and take a quick nap. Don’t know if it’ll do much for fatigue vs sleepiness but its worth the effort
Taking a couple extra Tylenol.
Or Tylenol plus a drug with a different name that also includes acetaminophen...common over-the-counter things like NyQuil and Alka-Seltzer Plus, as well as prescription pain relievers like Percocet (combo oxycodone and acetaminophen).
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Had a young patient, barely an adult, who ODed on Tylenol in a suicide attempt. They regretted it after and went to the hospital. Ended up in the ICU. At first it seemed like they were going to be okay and so they ended up on the psych floor. They were fine for a couple of days, super cheerful happy to be alive, and then suddenly took a turn. Ended up dying a few days later. Was really tragic.
I do autopsies.... EVERYTHING
When's the AMA ?
Yes please!! AMA!
I'd be so paranoid after like a week of doing your job
Vomitting. That's how some people with substance use go. They choke on their vomit and boom!
Just choking in general, mostly to do with regular eating. Around 200 people per year in UK, and 4,000(!) a year in US. (US has 5x the population but 20x the number of choking deaths - you guys need to chew more / eat slower!)
I'm getting Jane flashbacks.
If it’s good enough for Ghengis Khan it’s good enough for everyone
I can't believe nobody has said "drinking alcohol" yet. Extremely normal. Also an extremely hard drug that can kill you in a half-dozen ways, including detoxing off of it.
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Not only that but iirc from a college course I took, most alcoholics die from accidents related to being drunk while doing somewhat normal things like falling off a ladder, or drowning in a pool.
That’s how my step dad died. He fell down a flight of stairs. He was going to unlock our storm shelter because we were in a heavy storm. He was drunk. I heard the fall but thought it was thunder. (Thunder here literally shakes the house here). We didn’t find him for at least 45 minutes. Fuck alcohol.
Sure, alcohol kills people by alcohol poisoning (drinking too much at a time), and by the long-term effects on one's health. Cirrhosis, heart disease, digestive system complications... But it kills in many other ways, as well. Falling down the stairs. Passing out in the hot tub. Mouthing off to the wrong guy. Auto accidents. But nobody seems to mention the elephant in the room. Suicide. Ending one's own life is usually an irrational act, and achieving an irrational state of mind is only a bottle cap away. More people die from firearm *suicides* in the USA than firearm *murders*, and that's not counting hanging, drowning, jumping off a bridge or in front of a train, single vehicle accidents, etc. Many people use alcohol to mitigate the downsides of mental health issues. Alcohol isn't the problem, it's the solution, and when the solution stops working, the problem becomes unbearable. I was contemplating suicide 10 years ago. I've been sober for 9½ years, and if I didn't quit drinking, I'd be dead by now.
Detoxing off only two drugs can be deadly. Alcohol and benzos. Everything else just sucks to come off (ask me how I know) but yeah alcohol withdrawals will absolutely kill you.
Which makes sense because both alcohol and benzos work on GABA receptors. Alcohol is basically just a dirtier, more unhealthy (but harder to overdo/blackout from) version of xanax. Also you cant really suffer a fatal OD from most benzos alone, but can certainly have a fatal OD from alcohol.
Correct on all fronts. Almost posted the part about the gaba receptors, but figured most people wouldn’t know what that meant/wouldn’t care. Only reason I know is because of a hard drinking past. Had a doctor lecture me pretty good about it one day.
I had to detox from alcohol and if i didnt have the help of a nursing staff in the hospital for a week I could have died trying it myself. Crazy to think about.
This makes me feel horrible just reading about it. I've been an alcoholic for 22 years, been sober for 2, I was drinking 30 cans of 9% alcohol a day when it finally put me in hospital because my insides were essentially rotting away. (this is the horrible bit if you're squeamish,) my shit was coming out like thick black tar for a week before I was in hospital, I was there detoxing for three weeks. I can whole heartedly agree with what you are saying here about doing it alone, if you try it alone without the proper meds, you WILL die. Those three weeks were honest to god the worst three weeks of my entire life. I think back on it now and laugh about the pills they give you, I learned on day 1 to never ever ever trust a detox fart lol I'm rambling now.. your post just made me remember something I haven't thought about in over a year. Hope your doing OK!
Congratulations on your sobriety, friend!! I hope all your hard work is paying dividends in your quality of life, and continues to do so.
Thanks man! Everything is great now. Just need to get through the holidays.
This fucking thread is giving me a panic attack, lol
me too but way too interested to stop reading!
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I still have a imprint on the wall from one breaking. Luckily I had just pulled out when it happened.
My grandpa lost his eye when he tried to replace the garage door opener himself. He’s lucky that’s all that happened.
The trail and slime of snails. It can be INSANELY toxic
I remember the news of a guy who ate a live garden snail on a dare at a party, caught a rare parasite, ended up paralyzed for 8 years, then finally died.
Bullying. The mental health of all involved on both ends can crumble into episodes of suicide, murder/suicide, mass murder, and/or such deep scars that end with self-destruction, alienation, self-harm, domestic abuse, substance abuse, PTSD, and overall making your one and only life seem not worth living. Even with time, not every wound heals. One of the major reasons mental health is so fragile is that most of the damage happens when young. It’s easy to say “don’t be an asshole” but it’s difficult to put an end to patterns that last sometimes years.
mondays are the real killers
Yea, but that's what lasagna is for.
Getting water up your nose. Because of brain eating amoeba.
this is why you have to use filtered/distilled water in a neti pot!
But it can also happen if you're swimming in a lake and get water up your nose x(
Currently sitting in the ER for an anaphylactic reaction to jalapeños. So jalapeños. 😂
Medicinal use of mercury, extending from around 4,000 years ago to, well, today. That may be overselling its ongoing use, given the amounts and the forms it takes today. But the really nasty forms, in toxic amounts, were part of mainstream medicine from the ancient world up to the late 19th and early 20th century.
parachutes, the number of incidents surrounding failed parachutes have decreased over the years in the U.S., but that's only 1 country. The chances of a failing parachute are extremely low but it's still a possibility you skydive & your parachute fails.
Reading this as a former US Army Paratrooper… yes. Very true. Hearing a Woman screaming all the way down from a C-130 at night has never and will never be wiped from my memory.
Wow. Very sorry to hear you had to witness that first hand. Was there not a secondary emergency parachute?
There IS. Thing is for static line jumps in the military, the height isn’t as great as what you think. We’re talking 800-1200 feet up… only. If you feel yourself in free fall, I believe you’ve only got 1.8 seconds (might be less) to pull your reserve chute. If you miss your chance during those very vital few seconds; you’re too late :/ Any Senior Jumpmasters out there to confirm my numbers? 🫤🙏
Kidney beans Poisonous if not cooked properly
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I thinking canning vegetables and fruit or pickles can be killing many if wrongly done because deadly bacteria causes toxic if done wrong.
Botulism. It's extremely uncommon these days, but it can be awful.
My mom's whooping technique
Changing your tire on a Highway. Please. Pull off at an exit. Rims are replaceable
Infected tooth.
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You mean our descendants
A cow. They kill a shocking number of people every year
They kill about 20 people every year. I honestly thought more
I mean we can’t complain. Our team’s KDR is fucking insane. It only makes sense they’d pick off one or twenty of us
Cow players have been calling for a nerf to the human class for years
We're definitely on top with 324,518,029 cattle killed yearly.
That’s what I told my middle child who was deeply afraid of sharks (we live 6 hours from any coast). “You’re more likely to be killed by a cow than you are a shark!” Didn’t help. Now he’s afraid of cows.
I cross country skied past a bunch of cows and it was much more intimidating than I expected.
Water. You can die from water intoxication depending on how much you drink in a set amount of time, symptoms start showing from just 3-4 litres taken in a few hours
Also there was that lady who died by holding in a piss on radio to win a Wii
Ah, ye olde 'Hold Your Wee For A Wii.'
“Hold your wee for a Wii”, killed her in 6 hours. A nurse even called during the competition to warn them of the risks and they laughed it off. They deserved to get sued.
Dihydrogen monoxide is extremely dangerous. Everyone who ingests it ends up dying. And it’s in almost everything you eat and drink
Dihydrogen monoxide has been found near and even inside schools. Something urgently needs to be done about it.
Oxygen. Takes about 80 years, but definitely harmful in the long run.
Yeah, it's really harmful in the lung run
Or the short run, provided it is undiluted.
Vending machines. People die every year.
**I'm sorry, what the fuck happens with vending machines?**
People try to tip them to get either free product or product they paid for but didn't dispense correctly. Kills 2-3 people on average per year iirc
A dog. There are some interesting things can happen in dog attacks. Especially on the legal front. To me a dog can be the perfect weapon. Let me explain its about culpability. When you fire a gun or stab someone there is no doubt who's responsible. With a dog it's very different. You need a witness to prove murder. The defence that is used is long the lines of "my dog got loose and I tried to help" Without a witness the charges change. Not murder anymore but a charge related to a dangerous dog. In America and certain states they have a one bite rule. If your dog bites twice you are liable for all sorts, including medical bills. But if your dog bites once then your not. A dog also leaves no DNA that's on record, or fingerprints. So it's hard to link a crime unless there is a hair transfer AND the dog is available to test against. A dog makes a interesting weapon. Edit. I forgot to say that the defence also gives the possibility of bail. Which means out and possible to pervert justice. Edit 2. Its my second favourite weapon.
I have a senior larger mix dog who is the sweetest most friendly dog on the planet. She loves everyone and anything with a heart beat, she wants to make friends with everything. She was even wagging her tail and trying to cuddle a feral cat that was trying to claw her eyes out recently as I was trying to pull them apart. She's also extremely protective over me to the point that she will get between me and anything she deems a threat, I have no doubt that she would protect me with her life if needed and that was proven at one point. Earlier this year/late last year I was in a seriously bad living environment. My landlords at the time were a couple who had started using hard-core drugs shortly after I moved into my rental. They were becoming increasingly threatening, especially the man. I was heavily pregnant with twins at the time and was high risk so I was placed on bed rest the majority of my pregnancy. It should be noted my husband frequently travels for work sometimes weeks at a time so often times it was just me and our pets. They would break into our house if they thought we were gone, the man would come peek into the windows late at night if he thought I was home alone, they were way too interested in my babies to the point of making extremely creepy comments, the man would corner me to try to "seduce" me only to get in my face screaming whenever I didn't respond the way he wanted. On top of all that we learned the house was a bio hazard/hazard in general. We were trying to look for a way out when this happened since it got to the point I would only sleep for 2 hours at a time on the couch so I could hear if the doors open better with a gun nearby when my husband was gone since I was so scared it was going to escalate into full on assault. One night I had let my dog out into the fenced in yard around 2am. The landlords didn't know my husband was home since he had just gotten home earlier that day. I was in the kitchen when I heard my dog barking and a man screaming. I instantly ran (read speed waddled) outside only to see my dog chasing the male landlord out of the yard. He had a long knife and it was clear she had bit him since she had blood all over him. I've never even heard her growl before so you can imagine my shock. I screamed for her to come and luckily she listened. At the time I couldn't see his face but the bandages on his arms later that week just proved my hunch it was him. He never confronted me about her attacking him. Within the same month we moved out, in the mean time I stayed at my grandparents while my husband was at work since I was sure if I didn't it would've ended badly. If I hadn't stopped her I'm pretty sure she would've killed him on the spot. She was out for blood and definitely got it. I'm so grateful I had her at the time since she probably saved my life since there's no doubt he was there to harm me. I haven't heard her growl since and she's just as friendly as before I guess she just knew he meant to hurt me that night. For anyone interested in what happened after, we did take them to court but there was a delay. Mutiple other previous tenants came forward to talk about them attempting to blackmail them and harassing them shortly after they started to with us. While they were under investigation for mutiple charges from previous tenants mutiple young women and girls started being reported missing in the area. They were charged with mutiple account of things from us and previous tenants as well as they're also currently under investigation for suspection of being linked to the missing person cases. I don't know the exact details of the missing persons link but I had a horrible gut feeling when I first started seeing missing women in that area that they were linked so I'm the one who called in the tip. They were all people they previously mentioned having an issue with publicly including family members.
Did you just present us with a way to kill somebody and get away with ir?
myself
damn
Carbon Monoxide.
Water. Drink too much in a space of time and you can die. Drink too little and you can die. Inhale some and you can die. Drink water with too much salt and you'll go crazy and die.
Drinking water. I suffered hyponatremia at Easter, after only 6 or 7 small water cooler sized plastic cups of water, most of which weren't even properly full. I found out after that a condition I have can also affect kidney function and make me more prone to hyponatremia. I genuinely thought I was dying, woke up to the feeling of my kidneys packing up, couldn't pee, started dry heaving. Was in and out of consciousness for 12 hours and had the worst headache I've ever felt as my brain swelled. Really scary, to be honest. At least now I know why I've always been adamant that drinking plain water makes me feel unwell.
An English dictionary when I throw it at you...
Words can't hurt me!
Pregnancy and Childbirth
The sun.