Dah, thanks guys. Iām not too worried about it. Iām getting it checked out annually.
Thatās too bad about the back problems Virginia!
Thanks. As long as I donāt work at McDonaldās or do a lot of lifting, I should be fine. And I hope Iām not complaining or anything, I donāt want to sound whiny. 
Oh itās fine, you donāt sound whiny at all!
Oh, good. Thanks. 
Nearest death for me: mercury poisoning.
Out of my own stupidity, I played with a bottle of mercury for quite a few weeks.
Thank goodness we got it cleaned up.
Nowadays (not directly related to the mercury) I only experience panic attacks (well. Not much now of courseā¦).
I forgot to post this hear, but I had a near death experience a few weeks ago.
I was about to make a left turn when in the other lane, there was a speeding car trying to hit the brakes. He couldnt, so he hopped off the car ahead of him and the roof of his car almost smushed me. Thankfully, the car landed on the road just past me.
Iām glad you two both survived!
Yeah.
Iām surprised more that I am not experiencing any neurologic effects after it.
(anxiety doesnāt count as they came two or three years after.)
Not really, but I was in a risky situation recently. My mom and I were going to go shopping, and I decided to go out and sit in the car to wait for her, and I turned the car on, but I forgot to put the garage door up. 
Thank goodness she came out and caught it in time.
I have an Anxiety Disorder, and I use to get pretty bad panic attacks, that almost resulted in suicide. But I have medications now, so I donāt have panic attacks. Also, Iām at a better place in my life, so my depression hasnāt acted up in years.
I donāt really know if this counts, because i wasnāt actually hospitalized or anything, but last October (2010) i developed Chrons (thats actually not mispelledā¦ according to Google) Disease (an aouto-immune disease that is NOT fun when its flaring upā¦) it took a month for the doctor to figure out what was wrong because there was no fever and thereās no real test for it, but i couldnāt leave the bathroom, my stomach always hurt (i couldnāt get much sleep), and i had no appetite whatsoever, i lost 10 lbs before they figured it out (im not big enough to loose 10 lbs) and had to have a colonoscopy (sp?) my mom took me to the ER because i stopped eating (she thought i was going to starveā¦ like i said, im not big enough to loose 10 lbs)
but now im on Meds and havenāt had a problem in 10 months! 
~knock on wood~
the only other near- death experiences would be car related:
~when i was a baby my parents and i where driving at night and hit a (apparently very large) deer, i donāt remember anything, but the carās roof needed replaced, and always leaked after thatā¦
~when i was maybe 10 years old, my dad and i where driving through a snowstorm on a ski trip, but the interstate was covered in black ice and we slid off the road into the median, needless to say it shook us up, we stopped at the next town and spent the night, then went home the next day (the interstate past where we where was closed because of the storm), on our way home i watched an SUV slip on possibly the same ice- patch and start bouncing and get a front wheel hooked on the guardrail, they where ok, but they where going to need help. The car we spun off the road in we still have, i drive it now, it was totally fine
and one last story, not something i was involved in, but my 20 yr old cousin was:
~Last summer my parents and i where visiting the house my dad grew up in (we still have the house, the land has been in my family since the Calistoga wagons, but thats off-topic) the house is on the inside of a sharp bend on a steep hill (there are always accidents there, they even put up yellow posts to keep cars out of the yards and housesā¦) it was raining that day and there had already been 2 accidents that day (its a small town and the police know when someone calls from our house there has probably been a crash). So about 5 PM my parents and adult cousin and i where watching TV and we heard a large boom, we rushed out into the rain and there was a small car sitting on top of the yellow posts and my 20 yr old cousin who lived up the hill got out of the passenger seat. Everyone was ok, but the Police had to total the car to get it off the posts. That has defiantly been the most spectacular crash there since they put in the posts. (Before the posts, the house just below the bend had to replace their front porchā¦ 3 timesā¦ and finally put in a boulder garden to try to stop the carsā¦)
Moral of the story: donāt go 40 MPH in a 15 MPH when its raining!
Not really, no. When I was an infant, I had a urinary tract infection so bad because of some kidney problem that put me in the hospital, possibly with some surgery done, and apparently put my life at risk. But thatās just what my mom has saidā¦ She could be overreacting since Iām her baby.
There was actually one strange experience I had with a friend in a carnival in Brasilia. We were both 10 and the carnival was nearly empty. Our moms let us run over to one ride, the kind that looks like a giant swinging hammer. The ride attendant paid little attention to us and simply took our tickets. We got into our seats and noticed there were no seat belts to hold us in. There was a foam-covered bar that went in front of part of our bodies, but because we were so young and small, it was several inches away from our body. The cage of the ride was made of thick bars that had very large spaces between, and when the ride started to go upside-down, my friend and I both had to press our hands against the seats in front of us because our bodies started slipping out of the bars. They should have measured us before we got on the ride! I honestly remember thinking I might die on that ride, and I donāt usually get scared on roller coasters.
You went to carnival in Brasilia! Iām super jealous.
An ordinary carnival with rides, not the event, haha. I realized how that might sound.
Thanks guys. After an experience like that, Iām very happy to be alive and have become more appreciative of life.
Soemone please get rid of the spammer.
Done.
Wish their was an easyer way to get rid of them.
We added a new moderator today, so now we have more staff to be able to quickly get rid of them.
Saw that. May stop them a little more.