Have you ever been scared?

borolad259 said:
A couple of years ago I woke up, went downstairs and made breakfast. Got a bowl of muesli. Put a spoonful of mesli in my mouth and it all fell out. Tried agin, same thing. I thought something felt weird. Went to look in the mirror and one side of my face was sagging. At that point I was scared. Feck, I'm having a stroke. But I feel OK. I tried all sorts of movement tests on the right side of my body and all was fine, but I couldn't smile, move my mouth, close my eye. I was still scared though. I was working away from home and staying with a mate. "I don't wanna be in hospital so far from my wife and kids" I thought. So I googled facial paralysis. Up popped "Bell's palsy". Symptoms fitted. So I went to work in the Countryfile office, where I was met with all kinds of stares and concern. "Go to hospital to be checked out". "No, I'll be fine". I wasn't scared any more. I actually went on location to film and, during those few days it did get worse, especially when tired and cold. Helen Skelton later told me she thought I was dying. But I wasn't. Anyway, that moment I looked in the mirror, yes, I babbed myself.
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Helen Skelton 🤩
Have you shook hands with her? If you have I’ll give you five quid to lick your hand?
 
Medically - When I caught covid whilst working in Egypt. Went from normal to burning up 41C temperature and sweat just running out of every pore on my body. Energy level just vanished.
Ended up being tested and then admitted into the Egyptian Health system for 37 days. My company didn’t know where i’d been taken by their health system. The British Embassy found my location a few days later.

For 4 days my lungs felt like they were ripping apart with every breath and immense pain. It took 10 more days to feel normal. I just had no idea what was going to happen. Nobody spoke good English in the Hospitals.

When I managed to be discharged the world had shutdown and it took another 6-7 weeks to get on a charter flight. I managed to shutdown an $2Billion project and 2 Hilton Hotels.

9 months later my lungs worked fully again

The thread will be on here somewhere.
 
I’ve been scared a lot of times considering I’m never been in the services; and also been pretty calm a few times when I should have been terrified - I’ve been through several cat’s worth of lives. Held up at gun point in Cape Town. Car jacked in the middle of day in Belsize Park (just one week later!!) by two doped-up nutters. Confronted a burglar in the middle of the night who was armed with a crowbar (also London). Been threatened with a spade to my face (no kidding) by a deranged stranger on Stockton high street. Seen a man beaten half (or completely?) to death with a claw hammer (also Stockton high street). Been chased half way across London by a gang of Chelsea thugs - included running through underground stations, swapping trains etc - for about 20 minutes. Being surrounded at a road block in the middle of the night in the Algerian Sahara by 5 guys with AK47’s and a strong disbelief that we were merely lost travellers. Been chased and quite badly beaten up at Upton Park too. Been chased by a ‘bakkie’ full of armed gangsters after getting lost driving in a township near Cape Town. Going off-route once on Sharp Edge (Blencathra) and then having to free-climb up a crumbling section (the most scared I’ve ever been). Having an Indian python placed around my neck in Panama by a snake charmer (the 2nd most scared I’ve ever been - I am terrified of big snakes). Trying to rescue someone from a blazing car on the A1 (one of the occasions when I was surprisingly calm). Falling off a cliff in South Africa whilst observing the sharks in the water below eating a seal!!! Ridiculous, but true. I managed to swim and climb out (chimneying, for what it’s worth) before getting chomped myself. Walking into the ‘wrong bar’ in Portadown at the height of the troubles, to be met with instant silence and a rumbling of menace - I apologised, turned and legged it! I also once tried to take my training top off over my head whilst driving on the M1 - it got stuck - I was thundering along at 80 mph with as much visual acuity as Stevie Wonder. There’s a few more I could mention - as I say, a few cat’s worth of lives. Been scared a lot!
 
I was in Vegas and had gone to look at the Strat sky pod. Was with the Mrs and we took a wrong turn ended up in a really dodgy area.There were people sitting in the gutter doing drugs and others just laying there. We were getting followed by 2 men in hoodies.
A man in a uniform was walking towards us and I asked him if he knew a short cut to the Strat. He looked at me and said " Mr I have a gun and a night stick and wouldn't take a short cut around here". We ran back the way we had come and so did the 2 men. They only stopped when we jumped on to the sky train that took us back to the MGM grand. My bottle had totally gone.
 
Blf said:
I was in Vegas and had gone to look at the Strat sky pod. Was with the Mrs and we took a wrong turn ended up in a really dodgy area.There were people sitting in the gutter doing drugs and others just laying there. We were getting followed by 2 men in hoodies.
A man in a uniform was walking towards us and I asked him if he knew a short cut to the Strat. He looked at me and said " Mr I have a gun and a night stick and wouldn't take a short cut around here". We ran back the way we had come and so did the 2 men. They only stopped when we jumped on to the sky train that took us back to the MGM grand. My bottle had totally gone.
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I took a wrong turn in Vegas too (in the car) and was amazed at how squalid and run down it was - really hairy place.
 
Blf said:
I was in Vegas and had gone to look at the Strat sky pod. Was with the Mrs and we took a wrong turn ended up in a really dodgy area.There were people sitting in the gutter doing drugs and others just laying there. We were getting followed by 2 men in hoodies.
A man in a uniform was walking towards us and I asked him if he knew a short cut to the Strat. He looked at me and said " Mr I have a gun and a night stick and wouldn't take a short cut around here". We ran back the way we had come and so did the 2 men. They only stopped when we jumped on to the sky train that took us back to the MGM grand. My bottle had totally gone.
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We were on the Deuce bus in Vegas and a bodybuilder tried to get off round there as he was going to a convention. A local stopped him and said not this stop big man, It’s victim city round here. Remember it vividly.
 
I was in South Africa with the Navy.

The ship jacked up a day off for 'adventure' so decided to go surfing (well more paddle boarding😂).

We arrived at the beach that was covered in shark warning signs. I mean that alone made me question my need for a free day off.

I'd been out on the water around 20 mins and my only concern was how cold the south Atlantic is in winter.

I was sat aside of my surf board. I couldn't surf for sh*t and now officially a paddle board. I genuinely felt something bang against my right leg. I've told this story many times. It was sea weed or a bit of wood. It proper bumped me. I probably turned ghostly white and sh*t myself with fear I've never felt before.

The longest 20-30 meters of my life getting to shore. Trying to paddle fast without making any commotion (clearly impossible lol). I told New Zealand surf dude instructor. He just laughed and said 'it could have been mate' or 'maybe a seal'

I never went back in. Proper fear 😕
 
Once.

Just after my daughter was born, my wife was rushed into emergency surgery as she had lost a lot of blood and had turned grey in seconds. Everybody rushed her off, and I was sat there with a newborn in my arms, conflicting emotions. Scared and having absolutely no idea what to do if I lost my wife.

Not an experience I wish to repeat.
 
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In 2019 I had an inconclusive result on a thyroid biopsy and ended up having half of it removed to see if it was thyroid cancer. When i came out of anaesthetic i was moved into a single room and i was told the operation had taken twice as long as it was supposed to and they had put me in a single room for a precaution. The nurses did their rounds and then moved out into the corridor and proceeded to discuss things they didn't want to discuss in the room with me... like how the surgeon wanted them to keep an eye on me because he was worried about me something to do with a vein and my lung amongst other things. it you're ever in this situation NEVER google "thyroid cancer vein lung"... you'll diagnose yourself with the worst type of thyroid cancer with a pretty poor outcome. The nurses didn't seem to want to talk to me about it and said i had to wait to speak to the surgeon.
I didn't sleep much that night... i thought i had a type of cancer with a very low survivability (<5%).

Next morning when the doctor did his rounds i asked him what was going on and he said it was all fine, just a large goiter and that when he had removed it he could see the top of my lung and he was worried about how close he had got to some veins.

Having surgery can be pretty stressful when you're on your own and you only have yourself to look after you.
 
BaronSmoggie said:
Once.

Just after my daughter was born, my wife was rushed into emergency surgery as she had lost a lot of blood and had turned grey in seconds. Everybody rushed her off, and I was sat there with a newborn in my arms, conflicting emotions. Scared and having absolutely no idea what to do if I lost my wife.

Not an experience I wish to repeat.
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Similar experience when my youngest daughter was born. She came out barely breathing. I knew something was wrong as during the labour more and more staff kept coming into the room. She was born and put immediately into an incubator thing with a horde of staff surrounding her and then a horde of staff surrounded by missus as she had also turned grey.
Scary times.
 
Randy said:
Similar experience when my youngest daughter was born. She came out barely breathing. I knew something was wrong as during the labour more and more staff kept coming into the room. She was born and put immediately into an incubator thing with a horde of staff surrounding her and then a horde of staff surrounded by missus as she had also turned grey.
Scary times.
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Similar to this, during the Labour they had that machine hooked up that shows the baby’s heartbeat and during the very contraction my daughters heartbeat would plummet. It must have been 20 minutes of this repeatedly happening, I was panicking like crazy. The midwife went away and came back with around 15 other members of staff as they’d decided an emergency cesarean was needed.
The cesarean seemed to go fine, but that wait between my Daugherty coming out and her crying felt like an eternity.
 
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