MANY NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES MAKE LIFE RICHER
As mentioned before, I have ADHD.
People who have this tend to be exposed to life-threatening situations, and I am certainly no exception.
I have had 27 near-death experiences:
1: It started when I was born as a twin, while the twin had died earlier in the pregnancy - I barely survived after exchanging blood, and was constantly ill for 2 years.
2: 3 years old I tripped, hit a sharp stone with my throat, and the blood gushed out. I narrowly avoided bleeding to death. Luckily, I was with my older brother and a friend of his, and they had to carry me as they ran down the forest several hundred meters while blood pumped out of my throat.
3: At the age of 4, I fell off a cliff, but managed to cling to a branch and avoid falling onto the cliffs 100 meters further down.
4: When I was 8, I was snowboarding down a steep frozen river, lost control, and ended up in a barbed wire fence in front of the main river, which wasn't frozen. I escaped with some nasty cuts.
5: At the age of 10, I was fishing in the middle of the fjord, when the little dinghy I was using started taking on a lot of water very quickly. I was about 30 minutes from shore, and rowed like crazy while scooping out water, and barely made it to shore before the boat sank. I couldn't swim.
6: At the age of 11, I was sledding down a steep hill right into an intersection, where I met a tanker truck. I drove under it between the wheels, and both barely managed to stop; I could have been crushed under the car.
I was never allowed to sled again, because the driver knew my father.
7: At the age of 12, I was cycling down a very steep hill with one person on the back at a very high speed, when the bike skidded, and we fell off and slid on our chests for many meters. We were both wearing suits, because this was my brother's confirmation. The suits were just bloody rags afterwards, but we didn't break any limbs.
I had to sell the bike afterwards.
8: At the age of 12, I fell from a roof, but landed on a patch of moss, seriously injuring my ankle. I walked on crutches for 3 years afterwards.
9: At the age of 15, I fell into a glacier crevasse, and had not been able to get up on my own - luckily I had someone with me, who barely managed to pull me up. I avoided injury.
10: At the age of 18, I fell over with a 6.5 ton forklift but avoided injury.
11: At the age of 18, I was play fighting with a large Husky, when it got serious and attacked me. I had to fight for my life, placing one hand in the dog's mouth and forcing its lower jaw down, while placing the other in its upper jaw.
I had 2 choices; to hold it like that until it gave up, or to kill it by breaking its neck.
It didn't give up, but only became more aggressive.
Fortunately, the dog's owner, who was my friend, came and managed to calm it down.
A short time later, the dog was alone with their baby in the kitchen, and they found the dog with the baby in its mouth.
The baby survived, but had to be stitched up and had ugly scars for the rest of its life.
12: At the age of 19, I had acute appendicitis, and was operated on at the last minute.
13-14: At the age of 20, I served in the Coast Guard, and twice we were in the middle of a hurricane in the Barents Sea.
This was in the winter, and we had to constantly go out on deck to chop ice - tie ourselves up, hit with a sledgehammer as we landed on deck after a wave. The water froze to ice immediately when it hit us or the boat, and the ice became 20 cm thick in no time.
The boat (about the size of a large trawler) listed twice 43 out of a possible 45 degrees and was about to capsize.
15: At the age of 20, I was riding my bike while intoxicated. I didn't understand anything when I woke up the next morning in a pile of stones in the lake to someone shouting something from the way over. The bike stood neatly against the wall of the road, while I had fallen 2 meters into the sea below and landed in a pile of stones. Luckily it was low tide so I didn't drown, but I was also lucky to only turn yellow and blue from the fall.
16: When I was 20, I traveled on a Twin Otter plane in a snowstorm. As the plane took off, it turned out that the crew had not locked the door properly, because it opened, and wind and hail blew into the plane, while the pilots lost control and people screamed hysterically. The crew barely managed to close the door, and the plane continued on its journey without further problems.
I have never flown on this type of plane again.
17: At the age of 22, I lost the brakes on a forklift going down a steep road, narrowly avoiding a crash by repeatedly sinking the forks into the asphalt.
18: At the age of 23, I drove drunk, almost collided with a car, crashed into a guardrail, crashed into a container on a dock and finally crashed into a stone staircase in front of the house I lived in.
19: At the age of 24, I overturned a van on a sharp bend, but neither the car nor I were hurt, because it rolled into a grassy hill. I unbuckled my seat belt (which I always wear..!), and climbed out the other door.
20: At the age of 29, I worked as a machine mechanic, cutting aluminum profiles for ribbon tweeters.
I had cut over 3000 profiles when I forgot where my hands were, but felt the air pressure of the saw blade as it came up against both hands, which were placed above the saw blade. The blade barely nipped my gloves, but I managed to pull my hands away before they were cut off. Never wear gloves when working with cutting tools!
21: 30 years old I fell over with a lift, but managed to stop the roll into the wall by maneuvering quickly.
22: At the age of 34, I was inspecting a 4-storey new building. The stairs had not been started, and the stairwells were secured with slabs without railings. I stepped on the slabs, they gave way, and I fell through the slabs on each floor as they fell around me. I finally ended up in the basement on a stack of styrofoam sheets, without being hit by the sheets - without injuring myself.
23: At the age of 35, I crashed my bike on a steep hill; I hit a car across and had a speed of 50 km/h. I managed to jump off the bike at speed, and hit the car with one shoulder - my head barely cleared the top of the car. The collarbone was broken lengthwise and I was temporarily paralyzed on the left side, but recovered completely after a few years.
24: When I was 35, I traveled on a large airliner, and as we landed at the airport (which had a runway that was too short; Norway's shortest) the plane hit the runway with one wheel due to strong gusts of wind, the plane twisted and almost went around. People screamed. The pilots barely managed to regain control before the runway ended.
25: At the age of 36, I was left hanging from a roof ridge by my hands, after the 13.5 meter ladder slipped and stopped on the ridge. Amazingly, I managed to get hold of the ladder with my feet, and let myself down onto the ladder. The trip back down was a nightmare, and I have since suffered from acute fear of heights.
26: At the age of 39, I had a heart attack, and was operated on at the last minute 2 years later.
27: At the age of 51, I suffered from severe acute sciatica, and had to use large amounts of Paralgin Forte for the pain.
This led to emergency admission to the hospital, where they found inflammation of the peritoneum, inflammation of the liver and inflammation of the gallbladder.
I barely managed to save my life, and they wanted to remove my gallbladder afterwards (it was full of gallstones). I ran away from the operation before it was done, and have never had any problems with it since. Never use Paralgin Forte..!
After this I have lived a quiet life; it's not worth challenging fate - I've learned to control my ADHD.
I have had many near-accidents besides the ones I have mentioned here, but in recent years I have been careful, and have avoided dangerous situations.
As mentioned before, I have ADHD.
People who have this tend to be exposed to life-threatening situations, and I am certainly no exception.
I have had 27 near-death experiences:
1: It started when I was born as a twin, while the twin had died earlier in the pregnancy - I barely survived after exchanging blood, and was constantly ill for 2 years.
2: 3 years old I tripped, hit a sharp stone with my throat, and the blood gushed out. I narrowly avoided bleeding to death. Luckily, I was with my older brother and a friend of his, and they had to carry me as they ran down the forest several hundred meters while blood pumped out of my throat.
3: At the age of 4, I fell off a cliff, but managed to cling to a branch and avoid falling onto the cliffs 100 meters further down.
4: When I was 8, I was snowboarding down a steep frozen river, lost control, and ended up in a barbed wire fence in front of the main river, which wasn't frozen. I escaped with some nasty cuts.
5: At the age of 10, I was fishing in the middle of the fjord, when the little dinghy I was using started taking on a lot of water very quickly. I was about 30 minutes from shore, and rowed like crazy while scooping out water, and barely made it to shore before the boat sank. I couldn't swim.
6: At the age of 11, I was sledding down a steep hill right into an intersection, where I met a tanker truck. I drove under it between the wheels, and both barely managed to stop; I could have been crushed under the car.
I was never allowed to sled again, because the driver knew my father.
7: At the age of 12, I was cycling down a very steep hill with one person on the back at a very high speed, when the bike skidded, and we fell off and slid on our chests for many meters. We were both wearing suits, because this was my brother's confirmation. The suits were just bloody rags afterwards, but we didn't break any limbs.
I had to sell the bike afterwards.
8: At the age of 12, I fell from a roof, but landed on a patch of moss, seriously injuring my ankle. I walked on crutches for 3 years afterwards.
9: At the age of 15, I fell into a glacier crevasse, and had not been able to get up on my own - luckily I had someone with me, who barely managed to pull me up. I avoided injury.
10: At the age of 18, I fell over with a 6.5 ton forklift but avoided injury.
11: At the age of 18, I was play fighting with a large Husky, when it got serious and attacked me. I had to fight for my life, placing one hand in the dog's mouth and forcing its lower jaw down, while placing the other in its upper jaw.
I had 2 choices; to hold it like that until it gave up, or to kill it by breaking its neck.
It didn't give up, but only became more aggressive.
Fortunately, the dog's owner, who was my friend, came and managed to calm it down.
A short time later, the dog was alone with their baby in the kitchen, and they found the dog with the baby in its mouth.
The baby survived, but had to be stitched up and had ugly scars for the rest of its life.
12: At the age of 19, I had acute appendicitis, and was operated on at the last minute.
13-14: At the age of 20, I served in the Coast Guard, and twice we were in the middle of a hurricane in the Barents Sea.
This was in the winter, and we had to constantly go out on deck to chop ice - tie ourselves up, hit with a sledgehammer as we landed on deck after a wave. The water froze to ice immediately when it hit us or the boat, and the ice became 20 cm thick in no time.
The boat (about the size of a large trawler) listed twice 43 out of a possible 45 degrees and was about to capsize.
15: At the age of 20, I was riding my bike while intoxicated. I didn't understand anything when I woke up the next morning in a pile of stones in the lake to someone shouting something from the way over. The bike stood neatly against the wall of the road, while I had fallen 2 meters into the sea below and landed in a pile of stones. Luckily it was low tide so I didn't drown, but I was also lucky to only turn yellow and blue from the fall.
16: When I was 20, I traveled on a Twin Otter plane in a snowstorm. As the plane took off, it turned out that the crew had not locked the door properly, because it opened, and wind and hail blew into the plane, while the pilots lost control and people screamed hysterically. The crew barely managed to close the door, and the plane continued on its journey without further problems.
I have never flown on this type of plane again.
17: At the age of 22, I lost the brakes on a forklift going down a steep road, narrowly avoiding a crash by repeatedly sinking the forks into the asphalt.
18: At the age of 23, I drove drunk, almost collided with a car, crashed into a guardrail, crashed into a container on a dock and finally crashed into a stone staircase in front of the house I lived in.
19: At the age of 24, I overturned a van on a sharp bend, but neither the car nor I were hurt, because it rolled into a grassy hill. I unbuckled my seat belt (which I always wear..!), and climbed out the other door.
20: At the age of 29, I worked as a machine mechanic, cutting aluminum profiles for ribbon tweeters.
I had cut over 3000 profiles when I forgot where my hands were, but felt the air pressure of the saw blade as it came up against both hands, which were placed above the saw blade. The blade barely nipped my gloves, but I managed to pull my hands away before they were cut off. Never wear gloves when working with cutting tools!
21: 30 years old I fell over with a lift, but managed to stop the roll into the wall by maneuvering quickly.
22: At the age of 34, I was inspecting a 4-storey new building. The stairs had not been started, and the stairwells were secured with slabs without railings. I stepped on the slabs, they gave way, and I fell through the slabs on each floor as they fell around me. I finally ended up in the basement on a stack of styrofoam sheets, without being hit by the sheets - without injuring myself.
23: At the age of 35, I crashed my bike on a steep hill; I hit a car across and had a speed of 50 km/h. I managed to jump off the bike at speed, and hit the car with one shoulder - my head barely cleared the top of the car. The collarbone was broken lengthwise and I was temporarily paralyzed on the left side, but recovered completely after a few years.
24: When I was 35, I traveled on a large airliner, and as we landed at the airport (which had a runway that was too short; Norway's shortest) the plane hit the runway with one wheel due to strong gusts of wind, the plane twisted and almost went around. People screamed. The pilots barely managed to regain control before the runway ended.
25: At the age of 36, I was left hanging from a roof ridge by my hands, after the 13.5 meter ladder slipped and stopped on the ridge. Amazingly, I managed to get hold of the ladder with my feet, and let myself down onto the ladder. The trip back down was a nightmare, and I have since suffered from acute fear of heights.
26: At the age of 39, I had a heart attack, and was operated on at the last minute 2 years later.
27: At the age of 51, I suffered from severe acute sciatica, and had to use large amounts of Paralgin Forte for the pain.
This led to emergency admission to the hospital, where they found inflammation of the peritoneum, inflammation of the liver and inflammation of the gallbladder.
I barely managed to save my life, and they wanted to remove my gallbladder afterwards (it was full of gallstones). I ran away from the operation before it was done, and have never had any problems with it since. Never use Paralgin Forte..!
After this I have lived a quiet life; it's not worth challenging fate - I've learned to control my ADHD.
I have had many near-accidents besides the ones I have mentioned here, but in recent years I have been careful, and have avoided dangerous situations.
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KEYBOARDS, SYNTHS & MODULES I HAVE HAD AND HAVE
Casio CTK 811-ex ||| Roland EXR-7 76 ||| Yamaha DGX-620 ||| Yamaha PSR-550 ||| Yamaha PSR-S700 ||| Korg Pa800 ||| Korg Pa3X 61 ||| Deebach XMS-Pro ||| Ketron Ajamsonic ||| Casio WK-7500 ||| Yamaha Tyros5 61 ||| Ketron Audya5 61 ||| Yamaha PSR S950 ||| Solton X8 Chromatic ||| Yamaha Tyros4 10th Anniversary ||| Korg Pa4X 61 ||| Roland BK-7m ||| Technics KN-6000 ||| Technics KN-7000 ||| Roli Seaboard RISE 49 ||| Deebach MAX Plus ||| Yamaha Genos ||| Korg Pa700 ||| Korg Kronos2 73 ||| Tyros4 61 ||| Deebach BlackBox ||| Korg Pa2X Pro ||| Yamaha A3000 ||| Ghenos Plus ||| Medeli AKX10 ||| Korg Nautilus 73 ||| Yamaha DGX-670 ||| Korg Krome EX-88 ||| Korg OASYS 76 ||| Korg PaBugX 76 (OS 1.4 (mandatory)) ||| Yamaha Tyros1 ||| Ketron Audya 76 (Own developed OS) ||| Yamaha PSR-3000 ||| Yamaha 9000 Pro
MY PA EQUIPMENT NON-ACTIVE AND ACTIVE
All USB equipment connected to USB Isolator ||| Aune S6 32 bit DAC ||| MOTU 32 bit Audio Interface ||| FM Acoustics FM 300A Power amp (Clone) ||| MBL 6010 Pre Amp (Clone) ||| STAX SR-L300 (Lambda) electrostatic headphones with STAX SRM-252S Amplifier ||| beyerdynamic T70 headphones (without pads) ||| Baffle horns equipped with Seas Exotic 8" fullrange units (MeloDavid clones) ||| JBL horns with Planar membranes ||| Fountek NeoPro 5i ribbon tweeters with Planar membranes ||| Hexagonal subwoofer with 12 pieces Push&Pull coupled Seas Prestige 8" units, 1 item 10" slave unit and built-in XTZ power amplifiers & Cambridge Azur 640A as pre amplifier ||| Yamaha HS-5 active monitors connected to all keyboards
If we all share everything we have, we all have everything
KEYBOARDS, SYNTHS & MODULES I HAVE HAD AND HAVE
Casio CTK 811-ex ||| Roland EXR-7 76 ||| Yamaha DGX-620 ||| Yamaha PSR-550 ||| Yamaha PSR-S700 ||| Korg Pa800 ||| Korg Pa3X 61 ||| Deebach XMS-Pro ||| Ketron Ajamsonic ||| Casio WK-7500 ||| Yamaha Tyros5 61 ||| Ketron Audya5 61 ||| Yamaha PSR S950 ||| Solton X8 Chromatic ||| Yamaha Tyros4 10th Anniversary ||| Korg Pa4X 61 ||| Roland BK-7m ||| Technics KN-6000 ||| Technics KN-7000 ||| Roli Seaboard RISE 49 ||| Deebach MAX Plus ||| Yamaha Genos ||| Korg Pa700 ||| Korg Kronos2 73 ||| Tyros4 61 ||| Deebach BlackBox ||| Korg Pa2X Pro ||| Yamaha A3000 ||| Ghenos Plus ||| Medeli AKX10 ||| Korg Nautilus 73 ||| Yamaha DGX-670 ||| Korg Krome EX-88 ||| Korg OASYS 76 ||| Korg PaBugX 76 (OS 1.4 (mandatory)) ||| Yamaha Tyros1 ||| Ketron Audya 76 (Own developed OS) ||| Yamaha PSR-3000 ||| Yamaha 9000 Pro
MY PA EQUIPMENT NON-ACTIVE AND ACTIVE
All USB equipment connected to USB Isolator ||| Aune S6 32 bit DAC ||| MOTU 32 bit Audio Interface ||| FM Acoustics FM 300A Power amp (Clone) ||| MBL 6010 Pre Amp (Clone) ||| STAX SR-L300 (Lambda) electrostatic headphones with STAX SRM-252S Amplifier ||| beyerdynamic T70 headphones (without pads) ||| Baffle horns equipped with Seas Exotic 8" fullrange units (MeloDavid clones) ||| JBL horns with Planar membranes ||| Fountek NeoPro 5i ribbon tweeters with Planar membranes ||| Hexagonal subwoofer with 12 pieces Push&Pull coupled Seas Prestige 8" units, 1 item 10" slave unit and built-in XTZ power amplifiers & Cambridge Azur 640A as pre amplifier ||| Yamaha HS-5 active monitors connected to all keyboards
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