Life Changing Experience
 

I'm sure somewhere there is already a thread like this (I know there is a 'loss of innocence' one, but this is different....), but in light of the joy, happiness and all around RELIEF we are all feeling knowing Damasa/Blaine is going to be fine, I'm curious to know if anyone has ever had a life changing experince. Once in which they truly realized how precious a specific person or life in general, is.

I Missed something, what is going on with Damasa? Please fill me in asap!:confused:

Have had many experiences totalled out or been in 5 car wrecks, 3 police cars, dog bit at the eye, shot by Herbie my thingy, kicked out of a college and a Fraternity, saw slugs taken out of a fellow officer, had to do a 6 man body pick up to get him in a body bag, melted a coat while getting a guy our of a car, see a guy blow up in a car as could not get to him to get him out,well the list goes on!

I guess, I am one of the few who say what the F&*^ and go on living!

I wake up tomarrow and go on with life! What else is there to do!

Remember FRAB spelled backwards is BARF!

Damn, I just went back and reread this and wow, why am I still among the living!?

Just normal I guess!:D

Here's a long one!

My sister, real one was sick last year. She had gotten ecoli from a hamburger...

I was at Convention and had to leave early, long story I got sick......but thank God I did. I got home and that night I went to my sister's b/c she said she was going to bed early. Well, I'm the only one with a key to her house.


So my parents come over and get my 4 year old niece calmed down and go with my sister to the hospital while I wait at home with an upset 4 year old.

Well, cutting to the good stuff. The doctor's want to wait to see how she does overnight. I go to yell at someone, b/c I have a degree in Hospitality...many food borne illness courses, enough to know what is happening....not the freaking flu like they think!

I call a doctor that we know, he comes and sees her. They too want to wait...she starts losing her Blood Pressure.....pumped her full of fluids....wait.....wait...her belly looks like shes 8 months pregant....still they refuse to do surgery.

She developed a blood issue, her blood cells were exploding...no oxygen to her organs....they begin to shut down...kindeys....and so on....Guess what ecoli!

Fly her to Duke, where we had to sign papers that said it was too risky to move her but had no choice....sat in Duke SICU for 7 days....no changes....checked for brain actvity, had 2 doctor's from the CDC working with her....gave her less than 20%.

Eighth day, she woke up. Like that. Nothing wrong. She wanted some food, was hungry from not eating!

Let me tell you...my whole family has changed and for the better. We all live in the same town and see each other all the time!

Moral of the story, don't eat burgers meduim well!

Not totally life changing but this definitely made me rethink the way I drive.
Just this past March, the day before we got back from Spring Break, one of my sisters died in a car accident. It was a side impact on the drivers side door. She died almost immediately.
It was so hard on all of us because she had been taken from us so suddenly. There were no goodbyes. It made us realize that any of us in the chapter could die tomorrow. Life is very fragile.
When I drive, I watch out for the other cars a little more and I take my time. No more speeding or traffic weaving. It's better to arrive somewhere late than not at all.

I didn't have any finals this semester, and only one project due during finals week. So, I was at home for most of the week, only went up to school twice - once to talk to the teacher, and then on thurs of that week to turn in the paper, and stay the night and finish moving out the next day.

After I was all packed up, but still had some errands to run, it began to rain. The boyfriend and I got some lunch, sold back some books, and took pictures of my empty apartment.
Finally, I decided to leave. The rain had slacked up a bit. As I drove, the rain was off and on. I was about 15 miles from home when the rain started suddenly. I was going down the downslope of a small overpass, where cars would be merging in at the bottom on the right. As I braked to slow down, my back wheels spun out and I began to hydroplane. I went from the right lane to the left, thought "I'm going to flip in the median" then spun towards the right lane again and thought "i'm going to flip onto the grass by the onramp" and then spun around with the car perpindicular to the traffic, and all i could think was "please god save me." Finally the car stopped, and I saw cars were going around me to avoid hitting me. I still don't know how I was that lucky.

I really appreciate each day a lot more now.

My little sister in the sorority had been dating a guy for four years. She had taken him out for his 21st birthday and then a week later his friends wanted to take him out...a guys night out. She went out to the bar with us and we all had an awesome time. She was really drunk but I knew she had a safe ride home so I left. The guys that her boyfriend went out with had taken him home and I guess what happened was that he decided he wanted to go see my little sister so he got in his car and tried to drive to her apartment. He never made it...he got in an accident less than a mile from her apartment and died.

I had stayed at my boyfriends fraternity house...when I woke up in the morning one of his brothers asked if I knew where my little sister was at, I asked why, and he said because her boyfriend died in an accident last night. I just about threw up right then and there. I got on the phone and started making phone calls to see who she had stayed with. Nobody had gotten a hold of her and when she got up in the morning she drove home to her apartment where her roommate (another sorority sister) was waiting to tell her the bad news. I guess my little started vomiting blood. I can only imagine how bad it was. I drove past the accident site and it was awful. The following days were even worse. Our whole entire sorority spent endless hours at her parents house and all of our sisters attended the funeral services.

From that point on my sisters have taken DD responsibilites even more seriously than before. You don't ever think that something will happen to one of your close friends.