Reply #1: Yes, three times

[MorningGlow]

The first time I was a passenger in a car that came damned close to tumbling into a ravine. It was hellish not being able to control anything.

The second time I was driving (thank goodness I was alone in my car) and a minivan came barreling down a hill and blew through a stop sign at an intersection where I had the right of way. I remember being "slow" to react (although everything happened in only a few seconds), because I just could NOT believe that this dark green minivan was suddenly in my space! I wrenched the steering wheel to the left and only glanced off the minivan's driver's side door. I was almost in the clear--headed for the sidestreet, where the van was headed, essentially in front of it, but I was off by a couple of feet. Hit the street sign head on--totalled my car, blew out my knee, whacked my head on the windshield, and split my lip on the steering wheel. But I took all that woman's insurance--and her daycare license, as she had her daycare kids in the car in violation of Mass. state law--and I wasn't sorry!

The third time I didn't realize I had come close to dying--of a sinus infection, of all things. It was my first, and I didn't know what the problem was--I thought it was just a bad cold. I kept taking medicine but nothing was helping. I was visiting my brother and his family in California at the time, and when my SIL saw me lying on the guest room bed, crying from the pain, she took me to their family doctor. He said, "Good thing you came to see me now. A couple more days and this infection would have reached your brain and you would have been dead." (I was 23.)
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