Scariest Experience?

[Twisted Fairytale]

The last scariest experience thread died about a year ago, so I'm just gonna remake it!

Anyway, what's the scariest experience you've ever had?

 

[Elvira]

I'm gonna put a different one.

When I woke from surgery and couldn't move my left leg. I can now though, it took a few months of physical therapy.

 

[Wonko]

I have two, once when I was around 13-14 I had a blood infection from a cut on my knee, went to sleep and when I woke up I could not move my leg at all very scary, and the second time was when I was waiting to get married in the church at the alter not so much marrying, more the standing in front of so many people and having to speak that scared me silly.

 

[Twisted Fairytale]

My scariest moment came when I was attempting my first solo flight away from the home airport. I took off and immediately could not maintain my altitude. I called into the control tower and told them I was turning around and landing on an inactive runway. The tower cleared everyone off of the airport and cleared me for whatever I needed to do. I started my 360 degree turn, which in all actuality was about 400 degrees (because you have to correct for the course). In my turn, my wingtip was about 50 feet from the tree line. I put the plane down halfway down the runway, bounced the landing a few times, and drifted it onto the taxi-way.

Turns out the trim indicator was inop. When it read "take off" in the cockpit, the trim was actually full nose-down, forcing the nose straight down after takeoff... That's the closest I've ever been to actually dying.

 

[Jazzy]

Banged the back of my leg with a car door. Got a huge bruise and thought nothing more of it. About a week later, I had a pain in my chest. I went to the doctor and he took a chest x ray. He told me to sit still and he was calling the ambulance. When I asked what was happening, he told me I had a blood clot in my lung. He also told me if the blood clot moved to my brain, it would be fatal. To make a long story short: I was placed in the hospital and put on blood thinners to dissolve the clot. After three weeks, the clot was gone and they discharged me.

 

[Twisted Fairytale]

Banged the back of my leg with a car door. Got a huge bruise and thought nothing more of it. About a week later, I had a pain in my chest. I went to the doctor and he took a chest x ray. He told me to sit still and he was calling the ambulance. When I asked what was happening, he told me I had a blood clot in my lung. He also told me if the blood clot moved to my brain, it would be fatal. To make a long story short: I was placed in the hospital and put on blood thinners to dissolve the clot. After three weeks, the clot was gone and they discharged me.

That's absolutely terrifying!

I bet you're glad you went to the doctor's about that leg! Did he say that they were related?

 

[Jazzy]

That's absolutely terrifying!

I bet you're glad you went to the doctor's about that leg! Did he say that they were related?

Thank you. Yes, the bang to the leg caused the clot.