To wonder what the moment was when you felt incredibly lucky?

Yupbutnobut · 17/10/2022 10:07

There's always something worse going on in the world, doesn't mean you can't sit and feel your own emotions about your own seemingly lesser issues. Put a happy film on and relax, nows not the time to be deep diving into depressing news.

squashyhat · 17/10/2022 10:22

Out for a family walk many years ago when I wasa child. We were in woodland and had to cross a railway line at a designated crossing point. We were very careful to listen and look for trains but one still came barrelling round a bend just as we were on the crossing. It probably wasn't as close a shave as I remember, but I still feel lucky to this day.

PaisleyP · 17/10/2022 10:26

My husband found out he had testicular cancer and he was waiting on a date to do sperm banking as we wanted a 4th and final child.

I was on contraception and was going to come off it so we could try. A week before his sperm banking day, he gets a call to tell him his surgery needs to be brought forward and there's no time to do the banking.

We was really upset but thought we'll that's that then as the chemo would damage his sperm and he'd be one testicle down also.! 4 weeks later we was having lunch and my food came out and I thought that doesn't taste right. Nothing did. Turns out I'd got pregnant literally the night before his OP and I'm now due New Year's Eve with our daughter. Crazy time and feel incredibly lucky.

culipa · 17/10/2022 10:27

I have told this story to many friends so I will be vague while telling the story.

I worked abroad is a specific building on reception. One of my colleagues was harassing me my mum called me and told me she had a terrible gut feeling and that I need to come home. I refused but I agreed to see if I could be transferred. I was transferred to another branch just a day later. Two days later the reception area of the building was bombed and many people including many staff on reception died.

I have changed slight details for anonymity but I would have been on shift.

badassbaby · 17/10/2022 10:31

FattyAirways · 17/10/2022 10:04

I have Covid at the moment so feeling sorry for myself, but I stumbled on an article about the situation in Afghanistan and the huge drugs problem they have. Even children are addicted. It has put things into perspective hugely.

I was pregnant with twins.
I miscarried but the doctor wasn't sure if I'd lost both babies.
It was very early in the pregnancy so I had to have a blood test then wait for the phone call...it came the next day. And I was told I was still pregnant.
I remember the complete euphoria and relief like it was yesterday.
Dd is 18 soon 🥰

TheYearOfSmallThings · 17/10/2022 10:39

I was driving on the motorway in the right hand lane, and the bottom started dropping out of the car in front and they must have either slammed on the brakes at 75mph or it just happened in one second. All I could do was swing left into the middle lane or go smash into the car in front, so I went left, regardless what was there. Luckily I slotted in between two vehicles but others behind were not so fortunate and I could see cars swerving and bouncing off each other like pinballs behind me.

I could just as easily have died or been very injured but I was very, very lucky that day. Whenever I am feeling unlucky about something trivial I think of that day and get a grip.

Awumminnscotland · 17/10/2022 10:44

Yes. I feel lucky and grateful on different levels every day really, for all the basic human needs that are met daily and for bigger things. Sometimes the feeling or the expression of it is more conscious than other times.
Our family have all been sick for a while now so the feeling comes up more often I think because it needs to

Cinders88 · 17/10/2022 10:47

I came off contraception in 2015 when DH and I got married because we wanted to start our family. After years of piling on weight and irregular periods (both symptoms of PCOS) I got diagnosed. It took two years to lose enough weight and reestablish regular periods, then I finally qualified for Clomid, a fertility medication. I got pregnant first time, although unfortunately miscarried. Then I luckily got pregnant the second time too .. and now have a one-year-old DS 😊

It took five years from the decision to stop contraception, getting diagnosed and then getting help. I’m very lucky that it worked!

cultkid · 17/10/2022 10:54

PaisleyP · 17/10/2022 10:26

My husband found out he had testicular cancer and he was waiting on a date to do sperm banking as we wanted a 4th and final child.

I was on contraception and was going to come off it so we could try. A week before his sperm banking day, he gets a call to tell him his surgery needs to be brought forward and there's no time to do the banking.

We was really upset but thought we'll that's that then as the chemo would damage his sperm and he'd be one testicle down also.! 4 weeks later we was having lunch and my food came out and I thought that doesn't taste right. Nothing did. Turns out I'd got pregnant literally the night before his OP and I'm now due New Year's Eve with our daughter. Crazy time and feel incredibly lucky.

This is gorgeous

How is your husband doing?

Sending you a lot of love I really love this post

PaisleyP · 17/10/2022 10:57

@cultkid Thank you! He is doing great chemo is finished now. And he will just have scans and bloods I think for the next 5 years but he's doing fantastic!

CrotchetyQuaver · 17/10/2022 11:00

Sat in my garden spring 2020 in lockdown and thinking about those people cooped up in their flats in the cities only supposed to be out for their hour exercise once a day. I realised how lucky I was compared to them.

Saracen · 17/10/2022 14:05

My baby went into a constant seizure state the day after birth, and didn't respond to medication. I was sure that even if the seizures stopped, she would be severely affected for life.

A few weeks later they found a drug which stopped the seizures and led to a diagnosis. I was able to take her home, but she did have ongoing issues. It was predicted that she would not learn to talk. I realised she was blind when she was three months old, and she could only walk a few steps until she was over seven years old (and had little stamina even then). No one knew what the issue was: other children with her rare genetic disorder didn't have either of those problems.

But her vision developed, she was saying words before her second birthday and eventually tested in the normal range for verbal skills. She walked and then ran and then rode a bike. Now she is 16 and is perfectly well aside from a few rare seizures, slightly poor coordination, and a moderate learning disability. Also, she has always been a ray of sunshine, the most cheerful child you can imagine.

Often now I remember how hopeless I felt watching my baby in the incubator. She has done so well!

DesMoulinsRouge · 17/10/2022 14:10

Went home 3 days before the Boxing day Tsunami. The resort we stayed in was devastated.

cultkid · 17/10/2022 14:18

DesMoulinsRouge · 17/10/2022 14:10

Went home 3 days before the Boxing day Tsunami. The resort we stayed in was devastated.

Was that the outrigger in PhiPhi?

Fuwari · 17/10/2022 14:27

I've had a couple of near death scrapes. But honestly, what makes me feel lucky is having a nice secure home, enough to eat and pay my bills, with a bit left over. Doesn't sound particularly exciting, but looking back at other times in my life, and seeing so many people worried about losing their homes, or having to use food banks, it makes me feel lucky.

DesMoulinsRouge · 17/10/2022 14:31

@cultkid
We had been in Khao Lak.

Ihatethenewlook · 17/10/2022 14:41

I read a lot of books written by foster carers (Cathy glass etc). I guess it’s a little bit twisted really comparing my childrens childhoods to children who have been put through so much and feeling happy about it, but I always feel so thankful and grateful that my children will never have to experience the horror that others have had to go through. Even thinking about them lying in their beds at night, clean, warm, fed and safe brings tears to my eyes.

Calljake · 17/10/2022 14:50

Awumminnscotland · 17/10/2022 10:44

Yes. I feel lucky and grateful on different levels every day really, for all the basic human needs that are met daily and for bigger things. Sometimes the feeling or the expression of it is more conscious than other times.
Our family have all been sick for a while now so the feeling comes up more often I think because it needs to

I agree with this, I feel lucky/think about how lucky I am numerous times a day.

Vampirethriller · 17/10/2022 14:51

I've said it before on here but I used to be homeless, an addict and before that was forced into prostitution by a man I had thought was my boyfriend- I used to dream about having a home, a dog, a job, a life and a daughter.
Now I have all those and every day I think I'm the luckiest woman in the world.

Thinkbiglittleone · 17/10/2022 14:54

When I safely delivered our child after a bit of a scare in the delivery and a long try of getting pregnant, i held him and thought wow, I'm so lucky.

Echobelly · 17/10/2022 14:55

I was made redundant and was in a field without a ton of jobs and that was very competitive. Six months later and still tumbleweed, and JSA was about to run out, but one job I'd got to 2nd interview for. It took my career in a direction I wanted, with lovely people and it came though just as I had my final job centre meeting. I was so relieved to be able to tell them I had something lined up.

BuryingAcorns · 17/10/2022 15:00

Saracen · 17/10/2022 14:05

My baby went into a constant seizure state the day after birth, and didn't respond to medication. I was sure that even if the seizures stopped, she would be severely affected for life.

A few weeks later they found a drug which stopped the seizures and led to a diagnosis. I was able to take her home, but she did have ongoing issues. It was predicted that she would not learn to talk. I realised she was blind when she was three months old, and she could only walk a few steps until she was over seven years old (and had little stamina even then). No one knew what the issue was: other children with her rare genetic disorder didn't have either of those problems.

But her vision developed, she was saying words before her second birthday and eventually tested in the normal range for verbal skills. She walked and then ran and then rode a bike. Now she is 16 and is perfectly well aside from a few rare seizures, slightly poor coordination, and a moderate learning disability. Also, she has always been a ray of sunshine, the most cheerful child you can imagine.

Often now I remember how hopeless I felt watching my baby in the incubator. She has done so well!

What a gorgeous story. I am so happy for you. I too had a very sick baby who we were told wouldn;t survive. In and out of hospital as they kept discovering so many new things wrong with him for the first 8 years of his life.

Now, despite some SEN and some physical disabilities, he's at uni, has a job and a girlfriend and a life!

xogossipgirlxo · 17/10/2022 15:18

Every time I read/hear about some men and how horrible they are, I feel really lucky to have my husband.

NotEvenAHumbleBrag · 17/10/2022 15:36

Name changed for this 10 years ago I was made redundant and thanks to the encouragement of DH I decided to start my own IT business. The idea I had happened to coincide with the explosion in social media usage and 2 years ago I sold the company for 8 figures.

The lucky bit was twofold. One being in the right place at the right time and two having a DH who backed me 100%

Allthegoodnamesarechosen · 17/10/2022 17:58

We decided to sell our house abroad where we had lived for fifteen years, because we were finding the journey more difficult. We always said we would sell before we ‘had to’. We sold it to the first people who saw it, it all went well, no bad memories. Four months later , Covid struck. We wouldn’t have been able to go for two years, it would have been a huge worry.

Im so glad just to be settled in a nice house here now.