Guess I can’t go first...
When I was about 11 years old, I went swimming in a river a half a mile from my house. I was swiimming under the water and my trunks got caught on a branch underwater somehow. I was struggling for what seemed like the longest time to go free. The surface was just a foot from me also. Finally I ripped off my shorts and got out. I had to run home in my birthday suit!
1. 5 years old, I was running around the corner of the house chasing my sister when our dog jumped in front of me. I tripped over him and flew forehead first into a short concrete wall topped with slate. I lost a large percentage of my blood as I lay there waiting for the ambulance, maybe thirty or forty minutes. My parents told me the EMTs had said not to bother driving so fast to the hospital. My mother said otherwise.
2. In my early 20's I'd some root canal work done followed by a prescription of Darvon. I went out of town that weekend to party. Me, a couple of Darvon and a fifth of vodka, no mixer. Sometime that evening I just stopped cold, I wasn't feeling sick but really pretty good, but felt compelled to vomit everything out of my stomach. I finished puking in the hotel hallway, put the bottle on the floor and went to bed. Looking back I'm convinced had I not vomited I would have gone to sleep with a lethal dose.
3. maybe in another thread