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re: What is the most emotional event you've been part of or witnessed?
Posted on 4/20/17 at 11:39 am to Sody Cracker
Posted on 4/20/17 at 11:39 am to Sody Cracker
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Posted on 4/20/17 at 11:42 am to RedPants
Doctors telling me and my wife I had ALS. I walked in the doc office 1 year ago today a normal 35 year old. Walked out a permanently changed person... never been and never will be the same....
This post was edited on 4/20/17 at 11:48 am
Posted on 4/20/17 at 11:44 am to Darth_Vader
I was called around 3am on a weeknight by my aunt who lives out of state. She told me my grandfather (who had just had a routine surgery and was released from the hospital earlier that week) had collapsed in the trailer him and my grandmother were staying (house was flooded out in the August floods). She was calling me because my grandmother couldn't get in touch with my parents who live in town.
I had to drive all the way across town and bang on my parents door in the middle of the night only to tell them that they needed to get up and get over to my grand parents because I thought paw paw was dead.
The look of just sheer sadness on my mom's face and helplessness on my dad's face was unforgettable. I told them that they needed to start sleeping with at least one of their phones next to the bed on loud, instead of keeping them on the other side of the house.
I had to drive all the way across town and bang on my parents door in the middle of the night only to tell them that they needed to get up and get over to my grand parents because I thought paw paw was dead.
The look of just sheer sadness on my mom's face and helplessness on my dad's face was unforgettable. I told them that they needed to start sleeping with at least one of their phones next to the bed on loud, instead of keeping them on the other side of the house.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 11:48 am to CharlesLSU
Another incident that sticks out to me happened this past November while I was in the CICU unit at Grandview Hospital. In the room right behind mine there was a 70something year old man who'd just had open heart surgery. Needless to say he was in terrible shape.
One of his daughters was about he same age as me and my wife (40ish) and had cerebral palsy. She became friends with my wife and would frequently pop in our room to chit chat. Over the course of a couple weeks, a real friendship formed between her and my wife due to sharing the same sort of stress and worry. Turns out (from what my wife found out from her sister) the daughter had lived with her father her entire life. And for the past 10 years or so he'd cared for her alone because her mother had died.
One evening I heard the usual commotion and call over the intercom about a "Code Blue". Turns out it was the room right behind mine. They tried to revive him, but he was just too weak. The daughter was there alone (her sister allowed her to spend the night because "she didn't like to be away from daddy at night".) So when her dad passed, she didn't have anyone else to turn to other than my wife. She sat on the foot of my bed crying on her shoulder for what seemed forever until the sister got there. The thing that struck me was how she was crushed and terrified like a child would be if they'd just lost their parent(s). It broke my heart for her.
My wife has stayed in touch with her since and even took her out to lunch once (she can't drive herself). She's living with her sister now and seems to be adjusting from what my wife says.
In an another ironic twist, it turns out they'd requested Dr. Casterline do their father's open-heart surgery but he wasn't available because he was already busy doing the procedure on another patient. Turns out I was that patient.
One of his daughters was about he same age as me and my wife (40ish) and had cerebral palsy. She became friends with my wife and would frequently pop in our room to chit chat. Over the course of a couple weeks, a real friendship formed between her and my wife due to sharing the same sort of stress and worry. Turns out (from what my wife found out from her sister) the daughter had lived with her father her entire life. And for the past 10 years or so he'd cared for her alone because her mother had died.
One evening I heard the usual commotion and call over the intercom about a "Code Blue". Turns out it was the room right behind mine. They tried to revive him, but he was just too weak. The daughter was there alone (her sister allowed her to spend the night because "she didn't like to be away from daddy at night".) So when her dad passed, she didn't have anyone else to turn to other than my wife. She sat on the foot of my bed crying on her shoulder for what seemed forever until the sister got there. The thing that struck me was how she was crushed and terrified like a child would be if they'd just lost their parent(s). It broke my heart for her.
My wife has stayed in touch with her since and even took her out to lunch once (she can't drive herself). She's living with her sister now and seems to be adjusting from what my wife says.
In an another ironic twist, it turns out they'd requested Dr. Casterline do their father's open-heart surgery but he wasn't available because he was already busy doing the procedure on another patient. Turns out I was that patient.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 11:49 am to Loungefly85
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I bet you have a special kind of disdain in your heart for "truthers". I know I would.
I do.
I probably shouldn't but I also have come to really hate Islam. Kinda like the old ww2 pacific veterans who would never buy Japanese products.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 11:51 am to Sody Cracker
Former LSU players funeral. Entire NFL team was there including their HOF running back, maybe best ever. Huge men, all sobbing over the loss of their friend and team leader. Great guy, massive impact on a lot of people.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 11:51 am to keeton350
Damn.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 11:58 am to okietiger
Best friend collapsed on the opening kickoff of a high school football game. He was never touched. Collapsed, got back up, collapsed again immediately. He died on the field. Aneurism.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 11:59 am to keeton350
wow! God bless
Posted on 4/20/17 at 12:01 pm to SidewalkDawg
Probably the day after my high school gym teacher died. Guy had a heart attack at 61. He was the face of the school and everyone loved him. I just remember how surreal it was walking to the church and all 800 of us at an all-boys school were dead silent. A lot of people were crying.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 3:59 pm to Sody Cracker
the last night my grandfather was alive... hit me hard, even though i was only 15 at the time...
Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:01 pm to Sody Cracker
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What is the most emotional event you've been part of or witnessed?
Having to tell my best friends fiance that he was shot and killed in the line of duty.
That damn near killed me.
Second would be my divorce. I loved her more than anything. I simply couldn't watch her slowly kill herself anymore. It was taking me down with her. I had to save my sanity at that point.
This post was edited on 4/20/17 at 4:04 pm
Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:03 pm to Sody Cracker
When my friend's 3 year old daughter drowned in the pool. At the funeral she dragged me to the coffin to see how beautiful the baby looked. Saddest fricking thing on the planet.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:04 pm to ChenierauTigre
quote:Nobody should ever have to go thru that...
Saddest fricking thing on the planet
Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:06 pm to SG_Geaux
A friends funeral. I was supposed to speak, couldn't pull myself together
Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:07 pm to Sody Cracker
The birth of my son.
He was lucky baby #7 after 6 miscarriages. My wife and I had started the adoption process for a 1 and 2 year old just 8 months earlier. The whole pregnancy we were on pins and needles waiting for something bad to happen. When he was born, he had the cord wrapped around his neck twice and the needed the forceps but he made it out just fine. My wife just kept repeating "I can't believe this is real.". We were both in awe that our son was actually here.
He was lucky baby #7 after 6 miscarriages. My wife and I had started the adoption process for a 1 and 2 year old just 8 months earlier. The whole pregnancy we were on pins and needles waiting for something bad to happen. When he was born, he had the cord wrapped around his neck twice and the needed the forceps but he made it out just fine. My wife just kept repeating "I can't believe this is real.". We were both in awe that our son was actually here.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:16 pm to mark65mc
This scene gets me everytime. Bud And Sissy Hitting it off.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:29 pm to mark65mc
Over the course of a year I had the highest of the highs followed by the lowest of the lows and then back to highest of the highs.
My wife and I had trouble conceiving (5+ years) and ended up doing IVF. After we did the procedure you have to wait a couple of weeks then start taking some tests to see if certain readings start going up. Those few times we went to the hospital to take those tests and the markers doubled each time showing that the procedure had worked were amazing. Probably the most exciting time in my life, I would run around screaming and hollering like a child after looking at the results. a couple of months later my wife started bleeding and we went to the emergency room. We thought she was having a miscarriage, but ended up finding out that we were having twins. what we thought was a crushing blow ended up being an exciting joyous time.
Eventually the bleeding stopped and we got to the point that we were seeing both twins active in the womb on the ultrasound. We went in for a routine ultrasound one day and I saw right away on the techs face that something was wrong. She brought the obgyn in and he told us that one of the twins had passed. Obviously, this was the lowest of the lows. We couldn't lose hope, as we still had a healthy baby girl in the womb.
My now soon to be 4 year old daughter was born healthy and is the best thing that ever happened to me.
I don't think that there is anything harder on a couple than not being able to conceive, outside of losing a child. Our experience included all of that and more. That year was definitely a part of my life that involved emotions unlike any other event of my life.
My wife and I had trouble conceiving (5+ years) and ended up doing IVF. After we did the procedure you have to wait a couple of weeks then start taking some tests to see if certain readings start going up. Those few times we went to the hospital to take those tests and the markers doubled each time showing that the procedure had worked were amazing. Probably the most exciting time in my life, I would run around screaming and hollering like a child after looking at the results. a couple of months later my wife started bleeding and we went to the emergency room. We thought she was having a miscarriage, but ended up finding out that we were having twins. what we thought was a crushing blow ended up being an exciting joyous time.
Eventually the bleeding stopped and we got to the point that we were seeing both twins active in the womb on the ultrasound. We went in for a routine ultrasound one day and I saw right away on the techs face that something was wrong. She brought the obgyn in and he told us that one of the twins had passed. Obviously, this was the lowest of the lows. We couldn't lose hope, as we still had a healthy baby girl in the womb.
My now soon to be 4 year old daughter was born healthy and is the best thing that ever happened to me.
I don't think that there is anything harder on a couple than not being able to conceive, outside of losing a child. Our experience included all of that and more. That year was definitely a part of my life that involved emotions unlike any other event of my life.
Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:33 pm to logjamming
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A white male held a door open for me at work this morning.
I. Was. Literally. Shaking.
He was basically saying "you can go in here, but only because I am letting you." I felt so ashamed, naked, and vulnerable.
:lol:
Posted on 4/20/17 at 4:34 pm to keeton350
Omg
I'm so sorry.
God bless!
I'm so sorry.
God bless!
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