I have had a similar experience when I was much younger, scared the hell out of me. When we are young we seldom run into things that really scare us and we don't understand how terribly fragile that life is.If we are lucky enough to get through one hopefully it brings us a little more knowledge to deal with the next crisis in life. I fell timber for 15 years without incident, taking chances every day until one day a log got me. Again I was lucky I lived. We often take things for granted and forget the possible outcome.