What was the biggest bullet you dodged?

This will be anti-climatic, but 3 years ago I felt suddenly really bad. I live in the middle of nowhere, Scottish Highlands. I called the off hours doctor line, described my symptoms, got asked a bunch of questions, and suddenly the person on the line said “we’re sending the ambulance and airlift team.” I had about 6 minutes to freak out, ambulance arrived, and they checked me over....now, they SHOULD have taken me instantly to the hospital, because of the pain I was in, but they both knew instantly I wasn’t having an aortic aneurysm. Which is what the off hours doctor diagnosed me with. But clearly I wasn’t dying, I was just in excruciating pain. They actually agreed to leave me at home. But that’s because where I live is a tiny village, and they knew I couldn’t leave, because kids. But the very next night, they had to take me for real. Luckily my friend came over ASAP the previous night while I was in agony, and she decided to take my kids that night, just in case. It was then that the ambulance staff told me I’d been diagnosed over the phone as having an aortic aneurysm. Stan, the paramedic in back of ambulance explained how they made that mistake, and how that’s exactly how his father died. Which is why they called in the air ambulance. Apparently a cold neck is very bad. But even if I’d been airlifted, I’d have died if that’s what happened.

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