Which Life Incident Strongly Impacted You?

jdc · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 9:18 pm Post subject:

Our first born was delivered premature and needed Intensive Care. Needless to say it was a very stressful time. After a week we were told by the nurses to take some time off, go out have a meal and try and take our minds off the situation for a few hours.

That night we got a phone call to say things had turned for the worse and get to the hospital as soon as possible. We were told he would probably not make it through the night. Rosemary arranged for her cousin to give the last rites.

Jack made it through the night and made slow but steady progress and came out of hospital 6 weeks later. Jack was twenty on Saturday.
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Lion · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 10:10 pm Post subject:

Dave, Frans and Martin, Thank you for sharing your stories with us. I feel for each one of you in your time of need. Life is a journey of the unknown and all we can do is put forth our best efforts and learn as we go. There are no guarantees or instructions manuals but life is worth living and experiencing the good with the bad. I know it can still hurt but there is only one alternative so all you can do is your best and live with the results.....
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BigBird · Super poster Status: Joined: 11 Nov 2008 Posts: 1460

Dave, all I can say from your post is that it touched me.

JimSnyder · Old hand Status: Joined: 14 Aug 2009 Posts: 418

Enjoy each day and never go to bed mad. You just never know.
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away36 · Posted: Sun Nov 01, 2009 11:25 pm Post subject:

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Lion · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 12:52 am Post subject:

ABS · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 5:57 am Post subject:

Lots of powerful stories guys. Thank you for sharing, my heart is with you all.

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uncle aj · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 6:40 am Post subject:

I think with me it was the terrorist attack on the Oasis Compound in Saudi Arabia. We had breakfast in the restaurant that was attacked the previous morning. We also were on nodding terms with a lot of the people who were killed. On the day of the attacks I was running a guy to pick his car up from a local garage and we were only minutes ahead of the terrorists and on the same route that they took. It makes you think and take stock of things when you are so close to being involved. I have never told Brenda about being on the same route as the terrorists, some things are best kept quiet.
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Jimbits76 · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 9:05 am Post subject:

Dave I knew the story but it still doesn't lessen the emotional impact. Heartbreaking, I'm sure every single person who read it experienced a moment of complete selfishness and thought "How would I deal with it if..."

The fact that you are here and able to tell us about the hurt is a testament to your strength, character and love.

I'm proud you consider me a friend!

Jim
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Taffi Abernathy · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 1:50 pm Post subject:

This took place many years ago approproximately 10 days prior to Christmas . . . I was leaving my apartment in early morning to catch a train to work, a mental health center on the periphery of Penn's campus. As I was walking out the door, I realized that I was seeing some recovering heroin addicts on my caseload that day and came back inside to exchange my Rolex for a less expensive (and less tempting) watch.

After being at work for only a couple of hours, I began to feel physicially ill as though I were coming down with the same flu that had hit many of my colleagues. I headed home on the train, got to my apartment, put the key in the door, but the door wouldn't budge. "Not to worry," I told myself as the door had become stuck before. I went to the rental office, and was told as soon as the maintainence man was finished with his currently chore, he would assist me. After a twenty minutes wait, I returned to the office and jokingly said, "For all I know I am being robbed, please send someone soon."

This time as I was walking back to my building, I noticed my bedroom screen was on the ground, also not unusual as it had fallen from my window before. However, what I saw when I looked up to that window was fear which struck like lightening - my bedroom shades were fully drawn and window was wide open (I would have never left them like that!). Then and there I knew - serious trouble was ahead.

When two maintenence men finally arrived, they had to break into my apartment. When they swung open the door, there on my living room floor were two huge burlap bags - empty inside. Virtually everything in my apartment had been rifled through - drawers, briefcase, and even foods. When I went in my bedroom I noticed my sunglasses were on my bed, but the spring-loaded case which held them was gone - along with my Rolex, 2 TAG Heuers and diamond earrings. I was particularly heart sick that the earrings which had been in my family for so long, lovingly passed from generation to generation were missing.

The police were notified and a detective arrived shortly thereafter. They combed the place for evidence and dusted for prints, but the thief was never caught. They also informed me that the robbery was in process when I arrived home, leaving the thief no choice but to lock me out and jump from my third floor window to avoid a confrontation.

The next day when I arrived at work, a colleague suggested that I had never been sick at all, but rather my intuition was telling me something was wrong and impelling me to return home. As I look back on this incident she may be right, since once off the train and heading home, the symptoms disappated.

I have since moved, installed a burglar alarm in addition to my canine burglar alarm system. The sense of being violated by having my place entered illegally and my dearest and most private possessions rifled through has also greatly improved over time. Still, the most valuable lesson learned was to pay rapt attention to my intuition regardless of how it attempts to seek expression.
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jdc · Posted: Mon Nov 02, 2009 4:42 pm Post subject:

Dave I don't know what to say, a very powerful story. Adrian shows how easily events could have changed, really scary. Faith thank your luck stars you did not get in the apartment earlier.
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PaulG · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:28 pm Post subject:

In 1986 me and my new bride were involved in a serious car crash and the saying is true that time slows to a halt. The five seconds that it took for the speeding Lorry to push our car into the wall seemed to take five minutes. It was surreal, real "slow motion" at 50mph.

In 2001 an incident which occurred during a project I was working on left me with impaired hearing in my left ear and my colleague without his life, sadly.

Got out of that line of work as a result, sold my hifi for obvious reasons and bought a bunch of watches with the proceeds.

Now I have a gloriously boring life and spend a lot of time on watch sites.

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Jimbits76 · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:29 pm Post subject:

Paul...we miss you!

J
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PaulG · Posted: Wed Nov 04, 2009 4:31 pm Post subject: