Page 1 of The Single Life Changing Event In Your Life?

In light of the "Which part of history has shocked you the most?" thread, I thought what SINGLE event in your life changed it completely? Difficult, I know.
For me it was a visit to Dachau Concentration Camp with my partner. In an instant my life, and my view of life changed forever.

Hurtling towards (at a 50 degree angle from the road) a Bedford camper van Boxing day 1980.

Correcting my angle at the very last minute (loosing my wing mirror, directly above my hand in the process a VERY small price to pay) & riding along side it at 359 degrees.

Over compensating as I cleared it & coming down in the middle of the road & then got a feather nudge to my tyres from the car behind.

Laying in the middle of the road wondering when the traffic (that would be coming towards me) on a blind bend would come along & mush my head into the tarmac.

I am afraid thats a single life changing event in the space of one minute & in four parts.

On the plus side, which really puts into perspective (for me) as the result of the above, the birth of each of my kids, 3 life changing experiences over the space of 7 years.



I quite like the Helpdesk people in a benevolent (as opposed to malevolent) way as they do some valuable work in preventing us being inundated by every halfwit who can work a phone.

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March 3rd this year. Woke up with a very fast pulse and phoned for a Doctor`s appointment. Within an hour I was in A&E having a chest x-ray. At least it wasn`t a heart problem, but it took nearly a month of tests to confirm it. :(

J Mark Oates

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The only good politician is an ex politician
(In the parrot sense of ex-)
Vote for someone who`s not in politics for their own end.
You never know, there might be one.

August 11th, 1995 - a diving accident on a French beach left me with a broken neck, completely paralysed, face down in the Med. and wondering if anyone was coming to get me out of the sea before I ran out of oxygen and died. I was rescued, died but `recovered` to carry on with my life.

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"Never trust a man who, when left alone in a room with a tea cosy, doesn`t try it on."
Billy Connolly

My Top 20 Horror Movies ---- My DVD Collection

Was the best thing that could possible happen to me - although I didn't think it at the time!!! …My boyfriend cheating on me and now I am young free and very single. 8) :D 8)

Finding cannabis...............it helped me relax better,killed all thoughts of racism and stopped me stealing dvds/cds from shops. Made me realise all these things were really wrong. So, for me, it changed my life! For the better.

Same as Stantz for me.

Getting married on 2.10.98 to the missus (Louise) and the birth of our daughter (Rachel) on 9.1.04 :D

Gordy

They say a picture is worth a thousand words... I never realised just how much this little angel would change my life.

I had just started nursing in 1988 and was on my way to work when I witnessed a cardiac arrest. I stopped and gave CPR and brought him around, monitored the chap until another car came along so I could get them to phone for an ambulance.

Felt crap at the time as I was on my own and used to doing this in a team, but had a wonderful feeling of elation.

Visited the chap the next day in CCU and met his wife, children and several grand children which was a bit emotional. Still keep in touch with him.

That was one of many life changing events....

On a lighter note .. finding student nurses (female), the nurses home, chocolate spread and me were spending three years together mmmmmm pervy

mmm chocolate