[skinsguy]

Scariest day of my wife's life. A couple weeks ago, I got up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. I started feeling dizzy and sick. The next thing I remember, I was waking up in the floor in front of the bathroom with my wife, frantic, over me screaming and crying. I didn't know what happened, but I knew my head was killing me, I was bleeding over my right eye, both eyes were swollen shut, and I was freezing to death. She called 9-1-1- and took me to the ER. I didn't realize that I had blacked out twice in the bathroom, hitting my head the second time and leaving a baseball size goose egg on the back of my head. Suffered a nice mild concussion which kept me out of work and off the road for a couple of weeks. Still having some symptoms from it although I'm feeling better. It's scary when you can't stand on your own, having major headaches, and not able to concentrate or speak in coherent sentences (and it not being from alcohol, lol!)

But, I can also back up to about 1995. My friends and I used to hang out in a Pizza Hut parking lot every weekend. This street gang came up to us and started causing trouble. I was the smallest one there, so they surrounded me and started talking smack to me. I did notice they all had guns in the back of their pants, so I didn't know if I was just going to get beaten to death or shot or both. By the grace of God, I got up enough courage to walk away, got into my car, and left. Very surprised they let me go. A couple weeks later, they all got arrested across the street and we never had to deal with them again.