What is the unluckiest thing?

[Lizskid]

that you've done in your life? Did it change your life? why was it unlucky?




Mine....12 1/2 years ago, my mom wanted to meet me for dinner when she was out on a shopping day. I had a school meeting and I told her I couldn't. The next day, shopping day, she went to another town to shop instead, and had a car accident that, ultimately, in 10 weeks caused her death. Now, I know it was chance, I know she was probably having a stroke at the time....but I have to wonder IF she hadn't been on THAT road at THAT time, IF I had been able to meet her, she would have been sitting in a restaurant at the time and I might have seen her stroke....

[Booko]

Here's the unluckiest thing in my life:

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Thanks to this, I've been chronically sick for years and so far I've spent, hm, about $100,000 out of pocket to get as "healthy" as I am at this point. At least I'm semi-functional, so I'm happy about that.

The silver lining is I always wanted to go back to school for my Ph.D., but wasn't sure in what area, and because of this I'm now studying naturopathic medicine. I'm glad my brain has gotten unfuzzy enough after getting off the corn that I can actually study anything. huzzah! I imagine once the heavy metals are out it will be that much easier.

I'm currently working on a cancer prevention course, and one of the book is written by two Indian doctors -- one an M.D. and one G.A.M.S. (that Ayurvedic medicine), and it's a very practical work.

(It's in part a result of reading this work that we've taken up our current falafel craze. Eliminating animal foods...good. Turmeric...good. And it's cheap and tasty. How can we miss?)

[jamaesi]

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That.

[Lizskid]

UGH.....You both have my prayers.....so those aren't things you ACTUALLY did, but something that happened to you!!!

[Booko]

Pretty much. The things that I had no control over are the worst things.

Still, you can learn from those things that you do have a choice in what you make of the experience.

[standing_alone]

I can't think of the absolute "unluckiest" thing to happen in my life (my life seems to be a series of unlucky things, lol), but one of the more recent unlucky things was when my cousin and I decided to buy Brewer tickets and we were deciding between two different Saturday games (one Saturday game against the Rockies and another one against the Giants) and we decided on the Giants one (we thought, hey the Brewers owned the Giants last time and booing Barry Bonds is an oppurtunity too good to pass up), so we went with the Giants game (except we ended up going on Friday because the Saturday game sold out--information overload yet?) and the Brewers ended up losing the game we went to (well, at least we got an awesome Gorman Thomas bobblehead--woo Retro Fridays) and the game against the Rockies we would've went to ended up being won in a walk-off (think it was a Geoff Jenkins base hit, if my memory serves me).

[jamaesi]

Well, I did consent to the surgeries... that is something I "did." ;) It was sort of like a gun held to my head though. "Have this surgery or you'll never walk again! We're not sure how you're walking right now! Oh, if you have surgery you may never walk again!"


Well, the recent most unluckiest thing I did was last night. I was starting around a turn, swerved to avoid God only knows what that furry creature I saw in the road, and found myself coming around the turn in the other lane with two headlights right in front of me. I overcorrected and went off the side of the road into a ditch... and the Jeep was shaking and going so fast and almost flipped. I managed to gas it out of the ditch and back on the road and it was just so stupid and so scary and I could have died, I could have killed someone. I made it maybe half a mile down the road, shaking like crazy, before I had to pull over and throw up on the side of the road.

Maybe it counts as lucky I didn't die...


I really need to learn that creatures in the road are not worth dying for trying to avoid them. One time, I braked going downhill on a gravely road in the rain to avoid two raccoons once. I spun down the hill out of control until I noticed I was about to go into a ditch and into the side of a hill. Then I just closed my eyes and jerked down on the steering wheel... when I opened them again I was dead center in the middle of the road, facing the direction I was coming from.

[Lizskid]

Oh my gosh! Maesi, I'm SO glad you weren't hurt, nor anyone else....