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Most scared you've ever been
- Thread starter Hillian1
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7/7/2005 surrounded by diverted London Buses on Leadenhall Street.
Was on a boat in Thailand from Kho Phi Phi to Krabi. It was a flat bottomed boat with no keel. Sea was calm when we left Kho Phi Phi. Storm came a few miles out of port. The boat rocked back and forth and I was shitting my pants big time. All of a sudden the boat was hit by a big wave and was on its side in the water, I can remember looking through the green water that was starting to come through the window. By now the guy next to me, who was a helicopter pilot was talking me through how to get out. He told me to put my hand by the window and wait until the boat was full of water, hold my breath, follow my arm to the window and swim out. I remember the song I was listening to on my cd player "Smithers Jones" by The Jam. The boat somehow righted itself but was full of water up to our knees. The boat limped to port in the end but I have never been even remotely as scared as that before of since. Can remember it like it was yesterday and it was 15 years ago. I believe it was luck that we survived.
It will live with me forever. The cold fingers of fear that gripped my heart when the doctors said the words the OP heard. I heard those just over five years ago. We had twin boys, born at 28 weeks - premature, certainly, but in addition they had Inter Uterine Growth Restriction (IUGR), so when they were born, my little one was 14oz, my big boy was 1lb 15oz.
11 weeks later, having had my bigger boy home for two weeks, the doctors ran out of options with my little boy. He had got sick when two weeks old and they had worked bloody miracles to keep him alive, and I always had hope. Until then. Until that call. That was the hardest, longest, most painful day ever, holding him in my arms.
If you ever need a charity to support, please think of Bliss, the charity for babies born too soon.
11 weeks later, having had my bigger boy home for two weeks, the doctors ran out of options with my little boy. He had got sick when two weeks old and they had worked bloody miracles to keep him alive, and I always had hope. Until then. Until that call. That was the hardest, longest, most painful day ever, holding him in my arms.
If you ever need a charity to support, please think of Bliss, the charity for babies born too soon.
terryberry1
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back in my teens i had a gun pulled out on me up devils dyke late at night in a car park.......................................... what? 
Bevendean Hillbilly
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Emmerdale running late?
Emmerdale running late?
cjd
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There are no words I can say to give any comfort.
I do thankyou for having the courage to re-live and tell your story, at the same time supporting a clearly fantastic charity.
Thankyou also, for reminding all of us reading your story, how incredibly lucky most of us are.
Psychobilly freakout
HellBilly
Sorry to hear that Mr Igilla hope you and Mrs Igilla and young master Igilla are all well and healthy, all the best. That was hard to read I dont think I could cope with that.
rdigs24
Southampton seagull
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July 20th 2005 I was in Sharm el sheikh in a queue for a taxi when a suicide bomber set his bomb off in hard rock cafe opposite. never run so fast in my life
July 20th 2005 I was in Sharm el sheikh in a queue for a taxi when a suicide bomber set his bomb off in hard rock cafe opposite. never run so fast in my life
I wish!My left lung had collapsed (spontaneous tension pneumothorax), which kept me off work for two months thanks to various complications incurred in the treatment of said issue. Not fun, although a drop in the ocean by comparison to what the OP and @lgzilla had to go through.
el punal
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Having two daughters, and two lovely grandchildren who I adore, I can only imagine the pain and heartache you must be going through. I sincerely hope that everything turns out alright.
Saddest story I have ever heard, I have twin boys, both premature, now aged 4 but were in intensive care for 4 weeks. To have lost one would not bear thinking about, my heart goes out to you. How is the big boy now?
Since1982
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Three years ago this Saturday in the Sussex County - the surgeon stood at the end of my bed and said "we need to operate in the next 24 hours or you will be dead by the end of the week."
He's the most amazing little boy. Now five and a bit, at school and blossoming every day. Confident, bright and a Pythonesque sense of humour, he makes us laugh every day. That's not to say he doesn't have tantrums - he can be as obnoxious as the next, but so far, fingers crossed, shows no signs of trauma from his rocky start or from losing his identical twin. We are so very lucky.
Dalos
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- Mar 2, 2009
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Heartbreaking story Igzilla, can't imagine what that must feel like.Your little lad sounds like a great little boy though-has he been to the Amex for a game yet ?
SeagullSongs
And it's all gone quiet..
My 11th birthday, I did archery and orienteering at Lodge Hill that day. Crazy to think that at the same time you were having the scariest moment of your life.