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I also did that and had never heard of getting the wind knocked out of you. I thought I had collapsed my lungs and was going to die. I tried to tell a friend bu

• pluijzer 3y ago
  That is very interesting. I had a similar experience when I was I child. I had a toy electronics set and thought of using an outlet instead of the weak battery. Of course I got a nasty shock. I was sure I would die know. I wasn't really scared or upset about that. More about how my parents would feel. It wouldn't be fair that my father had to carry his dead son out of the house so I sat outside against the wall of the house waiting to die. Reading your report makes me wonder if this is just the state of mind of a child.
• rwoerz 3y ago
  +1 although it was a climbing tree in my case from which I wanted to abseil (with a very thin rope)
• omnibrain 3y ago
  I fell from one of those long balancing logs straight onto my back.