LOL, well if you look at it that way then I am a polygamist.

Head on smash in my ford cortina with a double decker. No joke and while in hospital recovering from bruised ribs and kidneys, smashed nose[7 fractures] crushed left foot and broke right forearm. Had a thrombosis[blood clot] on my right lung and nearly died had OBE [out of body experience] and saw a being of light welcoming me. Chose to go back to my body and since then have had many bizzare and weird things happen in my life. I feel blessed.

Hey, cog! Your description made my palms sweaty (I'm afraid of hights). I know "the nerve test" you are talking about. Sheesh, but seriously, I'm getting vertigo just thinking about it!
You know the place where everyone gets their photo taken on the "outcrop" in the Grampians? There's a smaller one a few metres up from it that looks innocuous enough from above, but has a far worse drop under it. I sat on that for ages admiring the view, but when I looked at some photos after, I felt a little queazy to say the least.

Hey everyone. I am doing better, my hand hurts a bit (drugs help it not hurt) but as Rob said I am lucky to be alive. I lost a quart of blood be i made the hunter (he ran over to help us) tie a rag around my wrist to stop the bleeding. By this time I knew/had a feeling I was going to make it. I had my doubts as to wether I was or not (middle of the woods) but I was the most in control person there. I made everyone with two hands call 911 and made my friend turn Jess on her side to try and have the blood come out of her lungs. By this pointe her eyes were open and she was not talking anymore. Once I was in the ambulance (30mins later) I finally went into some sort of shock. Crying helped control the shok.

Anyways I am doing better

You are not alone, obviously. I don't know you, but I am glad you came out of there with your heart intact. Godspeed to your healing and putting it in the past.

I Die Daily...

Yeah I think I know the one... you can see Halls Gap below? Most of the Grampians good bits have huge drops below them.. The Balconies, Jaws of death etc. I have got the wobbly legs out on the balconies before.

I'm so sorry... we here will pray for all of you involved... this has been so traumatic, I'm sure few can really relate.

My friends son goes off walking down woods lanes in a dark grey sweatshirt after I took an extra blaze orange vest & hat and preached at him to wear it. After more preaching he finally wears a red windbreaker and hat. Blaze orange just looks silly, he says.

When I was a teen and first started hunting I stalked up on a deer looking animal. I was looking and looking and looking for antlers thank God. Because a man rose up and started walking off from behind a tree with his DOG. They never knew I was there... from then on I realized how careful you have to be and ask questions first. Because the bullet cannot be taken back when you pull the trigger.

Young people don't always exercise the best judgement. Vision can be tricky. I think it should be a required subject taught in junior high school, (or even elementary school) everybody wear blaze orange or chartreuse during deer seasons in areas deer may be running around. Care to join me at preaching?

I pray you recover well!

Eddie

Twice now.
As a teenager I went swimming in the cold North Sea with a friend and got carried out by the undertow. I couldn't get back into shore. My first thought was that I would be late home and get told off! Next I felt shock that it was happening. These things always happen to others... I tried swimming different directions - as I had been taught, but finally more or less just trod water to save energy. Still tiring though, continually going under the waves and getting tangled up in seaweed. Two people came out with a lifebelt just as I was giving up and then the three of us got stuck, but eventually made it back - though one of the couple was carried out unconscious. I certainly owe my life to them.
They put a red flag up at the spot but the following year half a dozen people were swept out in the same spot. A helicopter rescued them but a lifeguard who had swum out to them drowned on his way back just yards from the sea wall. I was there (just on the beach this time) and we all watched it happen. They had tried shooting lines out to him but the wind took them off course and eventually he just lay face down in the water. Ironically he would have been OK if he hadn't tried swimming back. It's given me a healthy respect for the sea.

The second time, I was taken ill and admitted to hospital. They thought it might be the appendix but the pain wasn't where it should be. I could literally feel myself ebbing away and frankly I felt so awful, I didn't much care. But I pretended the pain was where they expected it to be to get them to do something. They operated and yes it was a badly perforated appendix. It was very close!

You got caught in the riptide, been there done that off the Oregon Coast.

Glad to hear you are doing better Regis.
I seriously hope they will rethink that area as being a hunting zone. I agree with Eddie that hi vis gear is a good idea, but this situation seemed like the hunter was not paying attention to it being a public area.
There have been a number of similar 'accidents' here in NZ, even though the message of 'identify your target' is heavily promoted, the thought that they might miss out on a deer seems to overtake it.

glad you are better and doing great.
i am a little confused ; cause i just skimmed this thread, you and another person were shot? you were shot in the hand? by a hunter in the woods during hunting season?

My husband came close. He was hit on the head when in his early 20's while working on a farm digging post holes and putting in a fence.
There were two of them.....my husband (Jim) held the post and the other guy swung the big hammer. He hit my husband on the head.
Jim remembers floating above his body, looking down and seeing himself face down in the earth....the other guy was panicing and my husband said he remembers thinking, "look at that guy,he's so upset"....my husband said he felt very peaceful and was amused at the state of his co-worker.....he could also see the beautiful landscape and the cows grazing in the distance...he said it was all very beautiful and peaceful........then all of a sudden he remembers staggering and trying to get up ....
Jim died of cancer at 44 yrs old and he said because of that experience he wasn't afraid to die.