Stuff you've survived?

Roman Catholic father

Pentecostal mother

Growing up poor

Nicotine addiction

Auto accident resulting in 27 facial fractures

Leaving home at 15

Quitting school at 16

Lightning strike

An 8 year abusive marriage

Drug addiction

Rape

My own stupidity :P

:hug:

Actually that's the short list.

You could add -

My mother's death when I was 14

The subsequent desertion of my father

Motherhood at 19

The death of at least 20 friends before I was 25

Poverty

Hitchhiking across the country twice - and alone




But really, I tend to look at it all as a learning experience. I'm in a very good place now, my kids are all doing great and grew up amazingly sane and I've had some intersting adventures. What more can a person ask for? :hi:

:)

I was just a step from a heart transplant list

Do you have a link to the original thread? I saw a spin-off thread today but couldn't figure out the back story.

Ask that fuckface Rabrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Unemployment

Losing best childhood friend to an unsolved kidnapping/murder

Growing up a Michigan fan in East Lansing

The Reagan administration

Flashdance craze

Hepatitis A

Hepatitis A again

Hepatitis B

Doctoral dissertation defense

Bullying

subsequent remarriages

incest

molestation

a marijuana addiction (dont say that it doesnt happen. because it does)

coming out to my parents

a bipolar father ( though he has a heart of gold)

immigrating to a new country and adjusting to a new culture

Catholic school

Parents' divorce in the early '70s, when it was nearly unheard of and therefore more traumatizing to a little kid raised on the Brady Bunch

Several "what was I thinking" relationships

A couple of car crashes

Dehydration to the point of hospitalization (through my own teenage stupidity)

Severe sinus infection that crept perilously close to my brain (love it when a doctor says "Glad you came to see me--in a couple of days you would've been dead")

:woohoo:

Endocarditis

Spinal surgery

An emotionally abusive marriage

Divorce

Job loss

Parental deaths

You know, the usual. :rofl: (Crazed)

... which gave me a concussion when I was < 2 years old, and which is probably responsible for a myriad of health problems I've had as an adult.

I've survived a year of inner-city high-school teaching, the friendliest divorce on the planet, and as of yesterday, my first year of law school.

Three c-sections

Motherhood (so far :P )

Survived

a divorce

death of a parent

the military

parenthood

From Staircase to Lake Quinault, Feb 2000.

I literally thought I was going to die.

Sexual molestation (by two different individuals, at two different times in my life)

Psychological Misdiagnoses

Sexual assault

Peer rejection (different incidents, different times)

Credit card debt (I'm using it wisely now)

Loneliness

Quackery from a chiropractor that, if unchecked, would have led to paralysis. (And my symptoms were constantly pawned off as being psychiatric... I was told to sue by no less than 14 people, 2 of which had observed my counselor in action. I did not pursue the various misdiagnoses, as issues other than the physical one were afoot. She later resigned, claiming 'family reasons'. For some reason, I doubt that was the truth)

College in a degree I couldn't fully relate to

Brutal supervisor

Myself

Failed relationships that never were from the start...

Employment for an agency that discourages personal growth - aka 'like it or leave' in a time that everything else is leaving (though this scenario is frequently common for people in general, so I try not to take this one too seriously)

If I bother to think about it, I could find more examples

The question is, do I hope and have faith for a better future, or keep remaining depressed so if there is a crash that puts all in the same dire situation, I won't get angry for being wrong in having faith and hope in what amounted to nothing. (Like relationships) That seems to be the worst insult anybody could fathom.

posted in wrong location.

a car wreck in which I broke the window with my head.

Or at least so they tell me, 'cause I have no memory of the event.

Marriage to an alcoholic

Divorce

Single parenthood

Nicotine addiction

a 20 mile trek through the Atacama Desert of Northern Chile on 0.5 liters of water and a small bag of M&M's.

I was a day away from a probably fatal heart attack, and discovered
it by pure luck (2 stents of the kind they now say might fail at any
second, but hey, I'm still here 3 years later).

German, French, Belgian, and Italian drivers (scarier than the cardiac
thing).

Losing parents before their time.

Other than that, I've been VERY lucky.

gallbladder surgery
5 brothers
multiple car wrecks (not driving in any of them)
abusive psycho ex
childbirth with drugs
multiple armed robberies
face plant into a tree while sledding
falling down the steps when pregnant
drug addiction
and a tendancy to hit my head on stuff with scary regularity (see car wrecks, tree wreck, 5 brothers, among other things)