People Who Cheated Death Are Sharing How They Actually Survived, And It’s So Freaking Wild

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People Who Cheated ****** Are Sharing How They Actually Survived, And It’s So Freaking Wild

Warning: This post includes descriptions of *********.

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asked, “How have you cheated ******?” and the responses were startling because each person’s survival from a life-threatening situation was so unique. Here are some of the responses:

Note: Some entries have been edited for length/clarity.

1.”I had a screening for something else, and my doctor found very early-stage ******* at age 34. It was removed painlessly and completely in the afternoon. It’s a ******* that usually affects people over 60 and doesn’t have symptoms until it’s too late. If I didn’t have this other screening, I likely would have ***** a painful ****** from it in 10-ish years. When the doctor first called to give me the results, he said it was divine intervention and never gave me the results of the test I came in for.”

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2.”I was on the waiting list for only six days before receiving a life-saving organ. The waiting time is usually more than six months, and I had less than a month to live. The doctors suggested to my wife that she say her goodbyes and prepare for the worst because I was obviously not going to make it. And now I’m writing this.”

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3.”Congenital heart defect (WPW) completely unknown until 35 years old. I was playing board games with a small group when my vision narrowed until I came to looking up at EMTs. They had taken turns doing CPR for 14 minutes until medical arrived and shocked me three times to bring me back. One surgery and defib install later, everything is pretty much normal with cheap meds. Had I been driving or at home alone, that would have been it. Those four guys don’t pay for beers ever when we go out.”

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4.”I was in the back seat of my friend’s car without a seatbelt on when he got t-boned by a dude blowing a red light. Got bounced around a bit, but otherwise okay. I have worn my seatbelt on every car ride since that day in 2005.”

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5.”I was a C-17 Loadmaster, and back in 2003, we flew a mission out of Baghdad, and our plane got hit by an SA-14 at about 1200 feet. I just happened to be sitting behind the pilot in the Left ACM seat, and I got to stare at a giant ***** torch erupting out of the top of our number two engine and flowing over the wing, where the fuel tanks were full. I fully expected the wing to explode any second until we were on the ground and the ***** trucks were spraying us down.”

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6.”When I was still a fetus, my mother suffered a heavy injury to her stomach, causing the ****** of my twin, but I survived somehow. The doctors basically told her she must stay bedridden for the rest of the pregnancy or else she would lose me, too. So my grandma got her an SNES [Super Nintendo Entertainment System], and she just played video games all day. I still have that SNES.”

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7.”I was hit by a ****** driver while I was riding my bike at 13. If I hadn’t been wearing my helmet, I would’ve *****. The helmet was cracked all the way through on the back. Safety equipment has never been a joke to me since. If any of my nieces or nephews call me, saying they need a new helmet, they’ll have one.”

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8.”I (unknowingly) had a UTI; never really had one before, but I was always told the symptoms were things like dark ******, ******** blood, and being itchy. I had NONE of them. I was trying to ‘tough guy’ it out, but I had pain in my stomach for at least five days, so I decided to go to Urgent Care because I couldn’t eat or walk anymore. They thought my appendix had ******** blown, so they sent me to the ER, but it was a UTI about ~24 hours away from going septic and infecting other organs. I felt pretty *******’ *******, but at the same time, I had no symptoms other than pain. ****** scary.”

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9.”I passed out while ******/high after going to the bathroom and broke a ******* with the back of my head. Woke up in a pool of blood and ended up with ~30 staples in the back of my head. I showed a doctor a picture of the bathroom scene once, and he looked visibly shook.”

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10.”I got pushed into the other side of the highway by an 18-wheeler that suddenly merged into my lane. I still have nightmares seeing the oncoming cars.”

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11.”Put in a CD at a stoplight, and the stereo kept spitting it back out. In my focus to get it to work, I didn’t see the light turn green. Just as the guy behind me honked, a car ran the red light at full speed and hit the cars that went beside me when the light turned green. The guy behind me didn’t move, even when the traffic cleared.”

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12.”I was in a brutal car accident. My son was 5 at the time in the back seat. Our vehicle was hit three times like a ping pong ball during rush hour and pushed over three lanes into oncoming traffic. When we finally stopped, we had narrowly evaded being sandwiched between two transport trucks. My right arm was crushed and is now all titanium, but otherwise, we made it out alive — my son without a scratch thanks to a properly installed car seat. Hours later, I went into another portal and hopped up on a ********* of ketamine, morphine, etc. I am convinced I entered the edge of life/****** as it was a surreal experience.”

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13.”My mum’s cat saved my life. I was sleeping on my mum’s couch after a

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. The cat got *****, and the vet determined it was carbon monoxide poisoning from the front room gas fireplace.”

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14.”My cousin and I were sitting on the back of a houseboat when we were little. All the adults were inside, as adults did in the ’80s. After a while, we stumbled inside instead of falling asleep at the back of the boat. We had carbon monoxide poisoning and had to be rushed to the hospital. Our grandpa bought a new boat motor the next day.”

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15.”My bio father punched my mom in the stomach nine weeks before I was due. A few days later, she was feeling just ‘a little’ off and called her doctor, who told her to go to the hospital. It turns out the placenta had ruptured, and the surgeon said we both would’ve ***** that day had she just decided to sleep it off instead. One very emergency C-section later, and we both made it, if not a little undercooked.”

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16.”Survived a bear *******, survived being lost at sea for four days (on a fishing boat, ran out of gas, no land in sight), walked away from falling out of a two-story window when I was like 4 or 5, walked away from crashing my motorcycle into a guardrail, walked away from my friend’s 300zx TT crashing through trees and splitting in half…think that’s about it.”

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A ****** bear is shown in close-up with its mouth wide open, displaying sharp teeth. The image captures the bear in a mid-roar or yawn

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Two people are on a small fishing boat in a calm body of water. One stands at the front, the other sits at the rear. The boat has equipment for fishing

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17.”5 years ago, I went tandem skydiving. After about 30 seconds, the dude pulled the parachute, but it wasn’t opening. After pulling on the ropes a bit, he got his ****** and cut the chute, then pulled the second one. By the time the second one was fully inflated, we were almost on the ground and landed somewhere in a field instead of the small airport we were supposed to land. They had to pick us up by car. Save to say, I’m never going skydiving again.”

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18.”No *****, there I was: Afghanistan. 15 minutes till midnight. Me and another guy were standing outside on guard duty. Every two hours, you’re supposed to get in the Humvee and run the engine so the battery didn’t **** due to the onboard computer that was always on. Two minutes after we get in, we are doing the radio checks, etc., and *****! RPG hits exactly where we were standing (I’m sure they were aiming for the Humvee). Oh what a night….”

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19.”I was riding a motorbike at 60mph (national speed limit road). An oncoming car overtook a car on a ****** bend and forced me off the road. The moment my bike hit the grass, I decided to jump off it as I was heading for a stone wall and knew that I would never be able to get control of the bike once it was off a tarmac road. The bike pummeled into the wall, and I hit the floor with force. My leathers and helmet saved me from a much worse fate, but I think if I’d hit the oncoming car or the wall, I’d have been ***** instantly. I was on my way to stay with friends, and my aerosol deodorant exploded in my rucksack, and my visor completely detached from my helmet.”

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20.And lastly, “My high school school resource officers (SRO) stopped a school ********* with literally less than seconds to spare. I was walking past the **** as he was at his locker, pulling the ****. I saw the student get tackled. If the SRO had not stopped the student, I would likely have been first since we were the only students in that hallway.”

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