Someone In This Online Group Asked “What Is Not A Bullet You Dodged, But A Huge Tactical Nuke You Dodged?” And 30 Folks Delivered

My father-in-law was about to go on a cruise, but was suffering blurred vision so MIL insisted he go to doctor to get checked out. Was a tumour behind his eye. He immediately went onto aggressive chemo regime which saved his life. Who knows what would have happened if they'd got on the boat. Moral - even if you think it's nothing, always best to get checked out just in case.

Hooray for modern medicine!! Yay science!

Glad you're okay

A friend had similar. Thought it was just an ulcer from biting her tongue, but no. Yikes.

you know,,, when she said they moved half of her tongue you went back and looked at the picture. lolol

2019 December: I was working a seasonal job in an austrian ski-village as a cook. May contract was till 2020 May, but I really didn't like to work with the chef, who was a nice guy in his random sober-moments, but practically an alcoholic. And also there were other things about that hotel what I didn't really like. I left in mid-January, coming back to Germany, where I had a hell of luck finding my actual job-place, and a good apartment for rent. In 2020 February Covid kicked in, by March the austrian ski-hotels closed, especially those in that village. The village name was Ischgl, the "firestarter". I can't be thankful enough.

daaaamn that was a good out.

Good move

My friend’s teenage stepson mentioned one day that he was having a problem with his right eye. It turns out almost all his periphery vision was gone but he didn’t think to tell his parents. He had a small tumor that was removed but I don’t know if regained his eyesight. In America, most children are given yearly eyesight tests by the school nurse until 6th grade. You don’t go to the eye doctor unless there is a problem.

Am now a cyclops

the last part doe

So glad you didnt go. Instinct? Maybe but lucky nonetheless

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Not psychic. Be as kind and understanding to yourself as you might someone you really care about.

Sorry for your loss. While its easier said than done, dont beat yourself up or feel guilty. They made the wrong choice, not you.

You did all you could

Don't blame yourself. You had no way of knowing.

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This is very hard to read. Very poor writing style.

My aunt turned down an after school joy ride because she had to go home and help cook dinner. The teens in that car crashed and died. I can't even imagine how she felt.

But if you didn't stop in the first place, it wouldn't have happened you them.

In my area, there's a large river that's prone to flooding, and it's surrounded by levees on both sides for hundreds of miles. In a particularly nice area there are expensive houses built into the water side of the levee... below the level of the top! Yes, the houses were all flooded when the river rose, and absolutely nobody was surprised except the idiots who'd bought them.

Don't buy properties that is close to the body of water, always check flood (or any major natural disaster) in the last 5 years (at least). That's how we survey new location in aquaculture.

I live just barely above sea level. Just a few weeks ago we had our new tsunami warning system tested.

No different than idiots who rebuild wood frame houses or put up mobile homes in tornado alley. If it's not reinforced concrete it shouldn't be granted a permit. Build in a flood plane, don't whine when it floods and don't expect the taxpayers to bail you out. Buy your own flood insurance policy or don't build/buy it.

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just like men , women can be abusive , not talked about as much

Never hesitate to report abuse. I was one of several people who called the police when a man hit his young son in the head several times. I was the only one who approached to officer when he arrived. He talked my out of pressing charges by pointing out that he would get out and then would most likely take it all out on the child and the rest of the family. A legit point but I have to live with it and I'll always regret not having that asshole thrown in jail. Child was maybe 7 and father was probably 6 ft, 275. They were sitting right beside us, kid was well behaved (probably due to being too scared to even move) so I never know what set off the father although you could see the fear in the faces of everyone at the table. I came real close to having the officer bring the wife out so I could ask her for one good reason why I shouldn't have him arrested. I think the biggest reason I didn't was I saw her as the childrens only defense and who knows what he would've done or said in her absen

Good neighbor and good cops and justice system for once

Crazy that a person even a woman can do it

It's good that the police didn't handle this in the conventional way: The man is always the abuser and the woman is always the victim.

You have every right to rub it in her face that you are successful in the company. I still think she should have been fired for falsifying documents.

Nothing motivates a person like pure and unadulterated spite.

Had an employee tell the DM sales were better when he had my job. Little did they know I had copies (still do) of the P&L statements. His sales were never more than 50-60% of mine. Whatever, you want me gone, I'm gone, I was fed up with the BS anyway. Went to a competitor and 75% of the business followed me. That was in 2008. I left that job in 2011 and to this day the competitor is still making sales and the one that lost it is still only selling $1000-1500/wk where it had been $10k+. Corporations will never understand, people buy from people, not companies. And when one does employees wrong, they don't forget it. Place I left actually tried to tell me I wasn't allowed to speak to any of the customers I had had. I informed that idiot DM that not only was I related to some of them but have known most longer than they had even been in business and I'll speak to whomever I please.