to ask whats the bravest thing you’ve ever done?

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as the title says

I worked in the financial services for 10yrs, never do that again @MrsRyanGosling15, your life would never have been worth losing for what he would have got from the tellers. I'm glad it turned out ok. Weird for you to have to treat him.

wow edwinbear that mist have been tough

I don't think I've ever done anything 'brave'. I've done plenty things that scared me; like moving away from home to go to uni when I'd never stayed a night away from my parents (I'm autistic). But that isn't brave...that's just doing something that you have to do. I've never done anything actually brave.

to so many on here

to congratulate others who faced fears about more fun stuff, skydiving, traveling, changing career

All of you are inspirational. I'm going to name change for mine.

Tame compared to a lot of people's...

Played Mozart's Clarinet Concerto at my grandad's funeral, and held it together while feeling heartbroken, with my mum, sister and aunts sobbing around me. I then had to drive 3 hours home and accompany a child in his primary school Leavers' Concert the same evening. Guess which performance I messed up?

Mumsnetter are giving awesome

@darumafan

Testifying against my rapist. Twice. It was horrible. He was found guilty though.

Or maybe fucking awesome!! Sorry typos

Beat an eating disorder and a drinking problem that I developed after having to leave my nursing degree due to ill health. I got a job, went to college and am now in the first year of my law degree

I keep walking past the open windows.

Darkriver that is incredibly brave. It is probably little consolation but when I work with children in similar situations it is always made very clear as part of their life story how much their birth parent loved them in order to make this decision.

Deciding to have a non invasive surgery knowing it meant it would lead to more operations and then brain surgery.

Lots of people think it was the actual brain surgery but the real choice was much earlier for an operation that medically was much safer and easier.

Throwing myself in front of my 14 month old Ds who was being mauled by a dog.I fought the dog and put my hands in her mouth to stop her biting him.
Not brave just anything to protect my baby

Remembered another one. Jumped into cold river to save my drowning friend at age 12 and not being the best swimmer myself. She still thanks me for that many years later

Doing CPR and using a defib on a guy that collapsed in front of me. I carried on compressions while the rapid response paramedic shocked him twice more and he was breathing when the ambulance arrived, and well enough to go straight to the heart centre for emergency treatment (massive heart attack)

Or having emergency spinal surgery, they told me 48hrs to operate before I risked paralysis and loss of bladder function. I did the 5hr surgery, post op, and recovery alone

Some of these stories are incredible. You’re all ruddy amazing.

Mine.... Kept my shit together when the consultant said ‘I’m very sorry, but it’s cancer’ and then kept it together again when I had to ring my parents to tell them it was cancer. There’s nothing like the guilt of knowing how crushed your parents are.

Ending an emotionally abusive relationship and the strength to be a single parent - rebuild a career - manage financially whilst being left with lots of debt - restore my self confidence

@Eveforever your sentence nearly brought me to tears. You are one brave woman. You keep walking on.

Being pregnant and giving birth after my firstborn had passed away during labour. I knew pregnancy and birth after a loss were going to be hard but oh my word I had no idea.

And I scared off two robbers in Buenos Aires while my husband (then boyfriend) was hiding behind me. He said that after that heroic performance he knew he wanted to marry me. :)

and yes agree with wrenika. I've helped deliver over 50 babies over the phone, given countless CPR instructions, heard parents trying to resuscitate babies, dealt with amputations, been the last voice to speak to someone dying, heard a babies first cry and a persons last breath and felt utterly powerless hearing someone's screams

But it is just doing what you have to do. Weirdly I never ever panic in a crisis, I'm the calmest person around. But a small thing like missing an appointment will have me irrationally angry/upset

Ran away from the pimp who beat me with a crow bar, and went to the police.

Having further children after genetic counselling where we were told there was a 1 in 4 chance of further children suffering from the same extremely rare and serious genetic disability.
Telling my beautiful anorexic DD2 that she either ate or died and needed to decide quickly which she was most afraid of as she had just been given a maximum of two weeks to live. [She ate and survived.]
Nursing my darling DH through Non -Hodgkins Lymphoma.

Not quite in the same league as some of these....

Walking into an operating theatre for an EMCS took every ounce of courage I possessed at the time.

Backpacking alone around the former Soviet Union in my early twenties.

Confronting lots of demons and laying some ghosts to rest in therapy.

Left my marriage
Took on the mortgage myself
Got a cat
Changed my job after 13 years
Resat maths and English exams and passed.
Travelled to London on a train to visit family.