“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience

We tend to have a bad idea about what is a real risk and what just stands out as a danger. Most of us know that heart disease is a major killer, but few people are as afraid of it as being hit by lightning (you have a 1 in 15,300 chance of being struck at least once in your life,) even though a heart attack is really an unfortunately common way to go.
Someone asked “What's the one thing you thought could never happen to you, but did?” and netizens shared their stories. From poignant to funny, get comfortable as you scroll through, upvote your favorites and be sure to comment your thoughts and experiences below.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience I made it past the age of 18.

I was severely bullied in middle school and was very s***idal. My parents celebrate every birthday as a huge accomplishment because it didn't seem like I'd make it.

I MADE IT TO 28 YALL.

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Wren 2 months ago

Made it to 14, never thought I would !!

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience I’ve made it to 1 year and 29 days selfharm free!! I have never been clean for this long so I’m really proud of myself. My mom and I celebrated my year clean time at Dave and Busters.

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Huddo's sister 2 months ago

My sister hit 5 years self harm free a couple of years ago! Being out of certain situations made a lot of difference, as did counselling and meds.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Lost myself and my life to alcoholism before hitting 30. Somehow survived rock bottom and looking at 4 years sober on Independence Day!

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YakFactory 2 months ago

Well done!

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I never thought I would be 56 years old and raising my grandchildren. Surprise! I am now adopting a 13, 8, and 7 year old. They all have complex ptsd. The youngest has autism. All positive vibes, energy, and juju appreciated!

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Judy Reynolds 2 months ago

Sending love, and hugs, because you really need them!

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Suffering with anorexia. And recovering from anorexia.

We watched an eating disorder documentary in school and I remember seeing footage of people in hospital crying over having to eat chips and thinking wtf is wrong with them?

A few years later being in and out of eating disorder units was the next 15 years of my life.

I was so entrenched I thought I’d never recover. Hell, I had consultants tell me I’d be a revolving door patient for the rest of my life. As I was leaving my last hospital admission the consultant told me he’d see me back in a month.

That was 5 years ago.

It’s not be smooth sailing but I’m in full recovery now, with a full time job I love, able to enjoy life and eat freely. The life of hospitals is a distant memory.

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Hmmm hmmmm 2 months ago

That's such an awful thing to say to a young child.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Getting MS (multiple sclerosis).

I've always been the healthiest, strongest, fittest, most athletic one of all my friends and family.

This can all change overnight. It can happen to anyone.
Please be kind to those with disabilities, it could be you tomorrow.

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Huddo's sister 2 months ago

I wholeheartedly agree with the last sentence. Disability hits all types of people, there's nothing you can do about it either.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Bird's s**t hit me in the mouth while driving once. I pulled over and insta-vom’d. Called my boss and told her I would be late… I was interning at a bank at the time. She told me to take the day off, but also to get a lottery ticket. Apparently, getting s**t on by a bird is good luck? Anyhoo… I bought two, $1 scratch offs.—-Won $50 on both. My grandma lived close by, so I showered there. I scratched the tickets while smoking a cigarette with her in her kitchen. Good memory.

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Julia Mckinney 2 months ago

Wow, what a bad/good day.

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I have a few big T's like being SA'd as a kid, teen, adult... Abusive parents. Being homeless for a time. Being in a DV relationship. Lost two babies. Lots of trauma. But truly the one thing that's happened that I never thought would? Finding my husband and the happiness we have together.

There's some cheese for ya.

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Jess Smith 2 months ago

I'm sorry for you OP

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience I was diagnosed with premature ovarian failure. And I grieved over the loss of never being a mother. My heart would melt (and break) every time one of my students would accidentally call me mom.

Fast forward 4 years from that point, and thanks to donor egg IVF I am currently 11 weeks pregnant. I'm so grateful for this possibility and for going on this journey.

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Huddo's sister 2 months ago

My stepsister has donated eggs a few times- I think three live births and one still birth. It started with wanting to help a friend, then she felt it was important to help as many people as possible. She knew she didn't want more kids so it made it easier I think, though her husband (now ex for unrelated reasons) found her mood swings from the hormones difficult though.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Got cancer. Wish me luck!

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Skogsrået 2 months ago

I hope OP beats the shît out of that cancer and recovers completely. ❤️

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Becoming homeless.

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Dragon mama 2 months ago

This should be higher. It's so easy for it to happen and so so hard to come out of.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience A tornado damaged my roof while I was trying to sell my house. Two years later, the next house burned down. Six months after that, a massive ice storm dropped four trees and completely crushed the next house. In that same year, I took an antibiotic that destroyed my connective tissue, my husband got third-degree burns in the house fire, and my son got bit by a copper head snake, my grandfather died of covid, and my car caught fire. I've learned to never, ever assume that something won't happen to you.

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AtMostAFabulist Premium 2 months ago

Good lord! Best of luck going forward.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience I was 51. I had the day off and was feeling great. Decided to take an afternoon nap. As soon as my head hit the pillow I had a massive heart attack that destroyed 40% of my heart. I woke up 3 days later on a ventilator and had no idea what the heck happened.

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 months ago

Oh wow, that must have been scary.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience I got fat, lol.

When you’re slim/fit pretty much your whole life, you take it for granted in many ways. It was very easy (at least it was for me) to fall into a rut of bad habits for a variety of reasons and now I’m in a place where I’ve got a decent amount of weight to lose and I feel like I’m back at square one when it comes to fitness.

If you don’t use it, you can in fact, lose it.

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Huddo's sister 2 months ago

When I was a teenager I was told, 'just wait until you hit your 20s' and I thought my genetics made that unlikely, plus I was never a big eater. Then I started antidepressants when I was 20 and it's been downhill (or up weight) from there.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Got attacked by an entire swarm of k*ller bees on top of a mountain. Almost fell off the mountain running down the trail and nearly considered jumping in my panic. Was raking bees out of my hair as they tried to get to my scalp and had to cover my face with my shirt to prevent them from climbing into my face holes. Thought I was gonna die. Got pretty scraped up and stung as I clawed my way down the trail without stopping. I never knew the sound of a swarm could be so loud and terrifying. I had nightmares for weeks after!

Another hiker in the same area had been attacked by k*ller bees a few years prior and they stayed on his body for 8 hours, preventing rescuers from recovering his body.

I now have an extreme fear of flying insects lol.

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Javelina Poppers 2 months ago (edited)

An old man two blocks over was stung to death by a swarm that took residence inside his barbecue. I've now become quite adept at eliminating swarms in mine and my neighbors yards with a 99.99% kill ratio. I have young children and aren't taking any chances.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience I had leukemia as a child and was told I'd never be able to have kids due to radiation and chemo therapy. I have 2 healthy kids who graduated from high school. So to the doctors at mc master in hamilton thank you.

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Wren 2 months ago

My brother lived because of McMaster. He was very premature, on ventilators, hooked up to all sorts of stuff, and had holes in his heart. He's almost a teenager now.

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Never would have thought that I would be disabled. I had a stroke from a massive brain bleed in 2020, it caused me to be hemiplegic, and wheelchair bound and unable to take care of myself. It f*****g sucks. I’m living in a nursing home in my mid thirties surrounded by elderly people who are completely unaware of their surroundings but it’s better now than it was last year and getting better because I’m moving into a house where I will receive direct support services from my state’s Choices program-10 more days, almost to single digits!

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Huddo's sister 2 months ago

It is crazy to me, the number of young people with disabilities who have to go into 'aged care' nursing homes because there is no one else for them to go. They usually end up so lonely, not having friends their own age or being able to connect with the older residents. One man, in his 40s who had had multiple strokes, was in my pop's nursing home in the mid 2000s. My pop became friendly with him, he came to church with us when we picked my pop up, and ended up coming to a lot of our family meals and celebrations. We lost contact with him when my pop died and I am sure his world would have been a lot smaller and lonelier after that.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Losing my mom.

Like yeah it’s expected to outlive your parents, it’s “the natural way”.

But losing my mom last year before I even turned 21 from s***ide…destroyed me. I thought she would always be here. I thought she would grow old, be there when I get married and have kids…

It still doesn’t feel real…hug your mom and tell her you love her. You’ll miss those “annoying” calls and texts.

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Judy Reynolds 2 months ago

Hugs!

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I never thought I would lose a child, but I did. My son died unexpectedly 9-1/2 months ago. I will never get over it.

UPDATE: Many thanks to all of you who offered your condolences.

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Liz The Biz 2 months ago

So sorry for your loss.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience My husband of almost 20 years left because I was sick and needed surgery.

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Skogsrået 2 months ago

Wow, so much for wedding vows.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Getting a really serious case of pneumonia as an active healthy 40 year old.
I went from feeling a bit ill , developing a cough to a coma in intensive care on life support in just 3 days!
Spent 5 weeks in a coma with full lung and then kidney failure, and another 3 doing physio and recovering.

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Judy Reynolds 2 months ago

That is scary!

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience I won a full oven and top unit in a kitchen sale lottery. I was 8.

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TribbleThinking 2 months ago

😄😄😄

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#23

In 1996 or so, I went to my wife's company Christmas party. While there, a candle got close to some of the table decorations, and I put out the small fire with 2-3 napkins dipped in a water glass.

I never expected to do this at least two more times, each at a formal banquet, each with a candle igniting decorations. The most recent (2018), I put out the small fire with iced tea, not water, and did not break the discussion.

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TribbleThinking 2 months ago (edited)

Your expertise and smoothness of execution are improving. 😄

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience I slipped on a banana skin, no joke.

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Javelina Poppers 2 months ago

Were you measuring something?

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Getting laid off unexpectedly after years of loyalty to my company. It was a wake-up call about job security and the need to always be prepared.

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Javelina Poppers 2 months ago

You're already in shock and then you meet the HR witch from hell handling the paperwork and then she looks you dead in eye and asks, "So are you gonna cry now?" Yes it actually happened to me.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Bad stuff: mass shooting.

Good stuff: I never thought I would get married, but we're coming up on five years in the fall.

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 months ago

Congratulations! Wish you many more happy years.

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#27

Bitten on the face by a wild python while trying to take a shower.

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TribbleThinking 2 months ago

Wow. I think yours is winning the "That's wild!" award so far (and the pun is incidental. 😄)

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Achieve my biggest dreams and still struggle with depression.

For the longest time I told myself if I got a well paying job, if a had a great partner, if I lived in that trendy neighborhood, if I had cool friends that actually liked going out.

I have all that now and still struggle sometimes.

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Skogsrået 2 months ago

Sometimes reaching your goals is not enough, please seek professional help.

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House fire. All the things you are “sure” that you’ll grab? Nope. Outside at 2 am in February, in my pjs. I had my phone and my husband, and that’s it. No one was hurt, which is the most important factor. Neighbor's house caught our house on fire--inner city, 100+ year old wooden houses.

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A Jones 2 months ago

It's terrifying. Years ago, I can kind of relate as I had to leave my home early morning once due to my apartment neighbor had left the stove on and there was a fire. People were knocking on doors and that was scary and surreal. I only grabbed my keys and phone that were on the table next to the front door.

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience I was shot, also winning a 1000$ in the lottery 3 times from the same kind of ticket.

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Huddo's sister 2 months ago

Noth would be fairly unlikely for me- I don't gamble at all and don't think I know anyone who has a gun and we have good laws here

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#31

Three human botfly eggs were deposited into my shoulder by a mosquito in Belize. Six weeks later, the newly formed maggots burrowed their way out of my flesh. The entire time, i thought it was spider bites. Nope.

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Judy Reynolds 2 months ago

Eeewwwwww!

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#32

I got old.

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Judy Reynolds 2 months ago

Happens to the best of us, if we live long enough. But it beats the heck out of the alternatives!

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#33

My ex husband of 12 years got court summons because he was being convicted of internet child s*x crimes, then my 24 year old sister died in the same week.

I trusted him, everyone trusted him. He got 7 years. He turned out to be an actual sociopath, using my naivety and trauma from growing up in a narcissistic family dynamic to manipulate me my entire life.
My sister had down syndrome, she was amazing and I expected her to at least live until she was 50. I miss her so much.

I still struggle with both and have severe loss trauma. I can't fully feel happy because I'm so afraid of everything going so wrong again.

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meeeeeeeeeeee 2 months ago

Been there with the stopping yourself from being happy...as if that would change things somehow, it won't. Life will still take what ever it wants from you whenever it wants, you may as well enjoy those things while you can.

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#34

I witnessed a car fly off the railings onto the freeway on ramp I was on. The guy was stuck inside his vehicle upside down and I broke him out of it with a log splitting maul I had in my truck at the time.

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Judy Reynolds 2 months ago

Brave of you!! And bonus points for having the maul with you!

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#35

Staying married to someone after they did things that I shouldn’t have tolerated and stuck around after.
It’s easy to judge other people’s relationships from the outside and have your whole perspective change when it happens to you.

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Judy Reynolds 2 months ago

Yup!

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Brain tumor at 21. I’ve had six brain surgeries so far and I’m 50 now.

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Huddo's sister 2 months ago

My friend's husband died last year from a brain tumour. He was only 30 when diagnosed and had only been married for about 6 months. He died less than a year after diagnosis.

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Traveling overseas for vacation. For the longest time growing up I thought my only option for going overseas was to get into military service. Never thought I’d be able to afford to do it otherwise. But I did and have done it several times. .

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Huddo's sister 2 months ago

I did my one and most likely only trip overseas at the end of 2019- start of 2020. I doubt I could ever afford it again.

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SA. I admire those that tell me about their stories. Some days just feels like I’m trying to survive other days are lighter and more manageable. I lose my appetite and sex drive a lot. And intimacy is harder in relationships for me.

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Judy Reynolds 2 months ago

Hugs!

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My gf tried to k*ll me by locking the door and setting an apartment on fire. Didn't expect that, but I managed to find an extra key in the drawer blinded by smoke while I couldn't breathe. She's my ex now, wouldn't recommend, 4/10.

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Elle Lian 2 months ago

I feel like 4/10 is a really high score.

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I turned my mental health around. I thought I would commit s***ide by 23.. I just couldn't see a light at the end of the tunnel despite medication, therapy, a great partner, exercise and diet.
I had a huge mental breakdown, was hospitalised, diagnosed with BPD. I ended up moving states and starting over. Now I'm 25 and have the best friends anyone could ask for. I haven't been s***idal in a year now.. I'm even back working fulltime like a normal adult. I actually smile now.

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Skogsrået 2 months ago

I'm happy for OP. ❤️

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“I Slipped On A Banana Skin”: 30 Moments People Never Thought They’d Experience Being in a domestically violent relationship.

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Huddo's sister 2 months ago

This, unfortunately, is something that could happen to anyone in a relationship. You never know how people could change or whether they are hiding their true personalities. Makes it hard to see it from the outside too. I never thought my best friend's husband would be abusive and I missed it even though I was living with them when it started.

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#42

My baby being one of the unlucky babies with trisomy 13. My Angel in heaven will always be missed and loved.

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Sandella 2 months ago

I can't even imagine..I'm so so sorry for your loss 😞

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#43

I got robbed at gun point while working in a bakery at 3am on Christmas eve of 2012.

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DennyS (denzoren) 2 months ago

Got robbed walking to campus at night back in the day. Not nice.

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#44

Getting pregnant. There was a problem on my partner's end.

Somehow, two weeks after my mom died, we conceived and I'm now 31 weeks pregnant.

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AtMostAFabulist Premium 2 months ago

Divine intervention from Mom.

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#45

Depression.

Thought it was a joke, thought it was an excuse. God depressed and diagnosed with treatment resistant MDD. I am fortunate to be in a place where I no longer need meds but, damn. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.

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TribbleThinking 2 months ago

I am sorry you were depressed and am glad you got better. But I sometimes think people don't have very good enemies!

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#46

I met the most perfect man for me who is so gentle with me. I was in an abusive relationship for six years, it ended ten years ago and I KNEW I'd never get married. He proposed eight months in. We hjust celebrated our first wedding anniversary. We literally have the perfect marriage. We NEVER fight. It's the best. He is the best.

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Judy Reynolds 2 months ago

I'm hoping you never fight because you are both mature enough to talk out your problems.

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#47

Having a kid with a serious health condition. I had two who were perfectly healthy and it never occurred to me that my third would be any different.

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Kari Panda 2 months ago

Honestly, that’s a big part of why I don’t want a second one, although I‘d love to. I was already worried sick during my first pregnancy, and I‘ll not test my luck again.

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#48

Addiction.

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Kangaroo 2 months ago

Yep. I remember joking with my friends in high school like, “alcohol tastes so gross, I don’t understand how people become alcoholics.” Then I became an alcoholic. Addiction is serious.

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#49

I never thought i’d lose my best friend so soon, but it happened, my lifelong best friend died 3 months ago

so many people responded and i thank you all for your well wishes and kind words, and to all who shared their stories of losing a loved one, im deeply sorry and we will get through this together! thank you all for the kind responses! so many comments to go through and reply to!

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Huddo's sister 2 months ago

Unfortunately (though it also has some benefits) I became used to loss from an early age, so it doesn't shock me though who and when can still surprise me. I lost my nan when I was 6, older brother when I was 12, friend from suicide on my first day of year 12, younger brother at 20 and numerous others after that. There are ones you anticipate (like grandparents and my brothers who had degenerative disabilities) which are easier to handle, though of course you still grieve (sometimes before it even happens). The ones that are unexpected can leave you stunned for days/weeks.

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#50

Cancer at 19, losing my mom at 24, losing my aunt at 21, the list goes on. It's rough man.

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Wendy Hamilton 2 months ago

Hang in there buddy.

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#51

Have a special needs child.

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Skogsrået 2 months ago

Yeah, never even thought that i could have a child with special needs until it happend. I love him with all my heart and soul. ❤️

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#52

I never thought I'd be in an abusive relationship, I was always a strong person that didn't take any s**t but this man completely changed who I was. Worst year of my life!

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Liz The Biz 2 months ago

It can happen to anybody from any walk of life, even the most confident people.

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#53

I never thought I could get any uglier... but nature finds a way 😭.

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wowbagger 2 months ago

Yup! I figured aging wouldn't be too hard for me because I never looked good to begin with and I had learned not to care about that fact too much. Now I'm learning the hard way that things can always get worse, and that I *do* actually care.

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I got manipulated by someone who stole everything from me. My child, my home, my cars, my possessions, everything. And now just trying to get my child back seems impossible, and I'll be in debt till the day I die, maybe even after.

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Find somebody to love.

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Wendy Hamilton 2 months ago

Me too.

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Sky Render 2 months ago (edited)

One day I got sick of always feeling exhausted and decided to see if I could track down why. That day I had been doing alright, so I had a bag of mini Oreos and within half an hour I was exhausted seemingly out of nowhere again. Within 2 days of that I had narrowed down the cause of my perpetual exhaustion: a lifelong undiagnosed allergy to corn. I've now been corn-free 2 weeks and I am still in shock that 1. I actually don't feel like death warmed over on a daily basis, and 2. I was basically being poisoned and poisoning myself for the last 43 years. I can't believe I had a food allergy my entire life when I spent all those years thinking I would never have one!

Myoviridae 2 months ago

Oh man, corn is in a ton of things! I only figured out the new gluten intolerance by being super sick after eating a bagel. I am currently going through all the FODMAP challenges. So far, fresh artichokes and snap peas are OUT.

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Trisec Tebeakesse 2 months ago

Got cancer. NBD, it runs in the family - no male has lived past 75 in my line. But I had it at age 46. It would have killed me, except in manifested as a tumor atop my appendix, which caused appendicitis, which is how it was found. Twelve years cancer-free now.

Jennifer Smith 2 months ago

I hit a boat while driving. Was behind a car when it swerved into a lane that was ending. I thought that was weird then bam, hit a kayak that was in the road. I sat there stunned for a moment then got out and moved the kayak out of the way and continued on my way.

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