...and You Lived to Tell About It

When I was about 8 my mom sister and I were driving home. We were all sitting in the front bench seat there were no seatbelts. Hit ice on the bridge once off the bridge we left the road hit a guide wire and flipped the car. Other than bumps and bruises we were all fine

I was born at 7 months, my mom had rheumatic fever, I was only 4 pounds, and it was in the 60's.

A huge chunk of ice fell off of a truck and hit the back wheel of my Camaro when I was 17. It made the car spin out, smashing my head into the door pillar. While unconscious my car did sideways donuts across 4 lanes, ramped up a bus stop sign, hit a tree, and wrapped around the telephone pole next to the tree all while suspended 8 feet up. I hit no other vehicles or people. The cops said it wasn't my fault.

I remember waking up with the engine running wondering why my windshield seemed to be smashed into a pile of oak leaves. I looked over sideways and the construction workers who saw it all were screaming OH MY GOD SHES ALIVE! I had a severe concussion and a seat belt burn. The guys used a ladder to get me out.

I had a green light and started to go through an intersection. Driver runs the red light and smashes my car going at least 50mph. Had I been a little bit further into the intersection I might have been killed. The entire front end of my car was gone, scattered in pieces down the highway. And the driver had the audacity to dash out of his car and blame ME for running the red. Um no, I had plenty of witnesses that said otherwise. Jerk.

I was in a major car accident in 1991. I had a head injury, a fracture in my cervical spine, and my thoracic spine, My face hit a steel dash board, and I had to have my face reconstructed, but here I am!!!

My car caught on fire.

During our 2009 ice storm we had no electricity for about a week. My neighbor had 22 horses thst needed fed & the ice broken up on their water. They lived an hour away & unable to travel. I had to hike across my field & climb over the gate, & then pull the hay put of the barn & make my way over the ice , throw the hay over the fence for all the horses. Then I had to climb back over the gate, & hike back across my field in all the slipery ice. By the time I got back into my freezing cold house I was sweating so bad. No hot water to take a shower because my propane had run out the 2nd day of the ice storm. I sat wrapped in a blanket shivvering so bad I could actually feel hypothermia setting in & even the bidy heat of my 6 dogs didn't help. All of a sudden my mind realized that 2 minutes of the cold house to change out of those wet cloths was the only way I was going to survive alone in my house with my dogs. It worked & I started to warm up. I had just moved there from Calif & this was only my 2nd winter on my farm. Had no idea how to survive a winter like that with no electricity.

I have since prepared so will never have an experience like that. They actually sent the national guard door to door to check on everyone in the county.

A woman in a big old tank of a car doing around 55 MPH broadsided my truck. Bent the truck into a U. I was knocked unconscious, hit my head on the steering wheel, the driver's side window and the rear window. Was temporarily paralyzed after the accident. Spent the night in the ER, but walked out under my own power.