What scared you recently?

Mine was yesterday at around 6:05AM. I heard a huge boom that literally shook the windows on my house. My husband had been asleep, but it woke him. He thought it was thunder, but I knew it wasn’t. I looked out several windows, and also opened the doors to my back patio to look around. Everything looked ok.

I posted on my subdivision’s Facebook group and people started answering that they heard it too. One person suggested sonic boom, but it didn’t sound like that to me. Another suggested practice bombing in the forest near me, and I was like what the hell? First, the forest is fairly far and northeast, this sounded more east or southeast. Second, I didn’t even know the military does bomb drops near me like that.

This is where I start to get more scared. When did we start to bomb practice like that in the forest here? I start worrying about the wildlife, then I worried it started with Trump, and that really crazy shit might be happening, and up until now I have not been extremely paranoid about him.

I continue to process the whole thing. It didn’t make sense that bomb practice would be so early in the morning. I google and the Navy does indeed do bomb practice in the forest near me, but nothing was scheduled that day.

By 6:30am I found out it was an explosion at an asphalt company that is southeast of me. It’s probably at least 6 miles away, could be more, I just know about where the city line is from my house. I’m not sure the location. I can’t imagine what it was like for houses closer by.

I am scared to fail out of university again. Your only allowed to fail once then your out in most post secondary schools in Alberta. No being allowed to learn from ones mistakes.

@RedDeerGuy1 Well, I guess they assume you learned from the first time you failed?

@Dutchess_III I am not sure if I learned my lesson. Its so easy to quit and not try again.

Well, then you were allowed to learn from your mistake, you just didn’t.

What courses are you afraid of failing and why?

@Dutchess_III Computer science and essay sorcing in mla and apa formating. I’m wondering about failing the S.T.E.M courses. I don’t need a licence so I can learn by audit or self- study.

In the 60s we moved from Florida to Kansas and landed a housing development where the jets from the base nearby would break the sound barrier frequently. I was in 3rd grade and home alone the first time it happened. Scared the pee Jesus out of me.
But then it became illegal to do that. :( It was fun while it lasted.

@RedDeerGuy1 Study hard! You can do it!

@Dutchess_III Thanks. I will deal with my finances and health for now before going into stressfull classes. No rush. Will read books for fun.

My moms blood thinner interacted fatally with her meds, we had to bust down her door and she almost died. That scared me. ER doc said she would have died since her bp was so low.

I know not many here believe in God, but He told me to go see mom that day, like very strong pushes, so I did. Just another example of how faith works.

Every time the door bell rings.

A jet flying overhead resulting in the building shake a bit. A very loud engine.
As it is Spring the flights over our Community are starting.
These are Planes that fly over to or from the U.S. to Europe or back from Europe regularly at this time.
AN acquaintance told me about these scheduled flights and tracks them online as he is an airplane enthusiast.
Usually they are higher but that one was low .

Last year, I was hiking early in the morning on an unmarked trail at the Red Red River Gorge, and I thought I was walking towards an overlook. But trees had been knocked down and I didn’t realize I was walking towards the edge of a high drop off. 400 feet away, a hiker yelled at me to walk the other way. There must have been only 3 or 4 people at the gorge at the time

Mitch McConnell

A couple of weeks ago, I got to play golf for the first time in a year.
Really scary.

Wind mills terrify me. I’m afraid I’ll get AIDs or hepatitis from them.

@Dutchess_III Naw, no worries – it’s just cancer that you’ll get!

A squirrel ran out in front of my car and I slammed on my brakes, barely avoiding squashing it.

I just found out that a friend who lives in another city, about 500 miles from me is very ill and has lost about 80 pounds, is having trouble eating, and has not been able to work for several months due to low energy, and nausea.

I just lost two dear people to cancer. One in January, and one in February.

My friend had not seen a doctor in years. He had to be taken to the ER a few days ago. I’m very worried.

A few months ago my wife had a heart-attack. That was a scary time.

I bet @seawulf575. She OK now? What happened?

She had tightness in her chest one day and pain in her arm. She didn’t think anything of it and when it got worse in the evening, she decided she was going to go to bed. Her son (adult) thought she looked bad and asked her about it. She described how she felt and said she thought a good night’s sleep would help. He told her that when you felt like that you didn’t go to bed, you went to the hospital. So she ended up in the ER. The next day they took her to the cardiac care unit where they checked her out, found one artery that was 90% blocked and another that was 99% blocked. 2 stints later and she is doing good. She officially had a heart attack but no lasting damage was done to the heart so that was a blessing. Now she’s doing fine. She’s added a couple new meds to her repertoire and she exercises a bit more. We always ate pretty well but we are always looking for more heart healthy options.

@seawulf Sorry buddy, glad she’s okay!

@seawulf575 I’m glad she’s ok. I’m always worried I could have a heart attack. When my nausea started with this 24 hour stomach flu, at first I worried it could be a heart attack. It’s so hard to decide to go to the ER, most women are like your wife, they think they will feel better if they just rest. When this illness started for me I told my husband I didn’t have any pain in my chest or arm, so I risked staying home, but I could have just as easily not had those symptoms, not everyone gets all the symptoms. It’s partly why women are more likely to die from a heart event. I tell my husband to always inform emergency medical staff I’m at high risk for heart attack or stroke so they don’t overlook it.

@JLeslie It is sometimes a hard call. We have all been sick and felt like total crap. I’m a firm believer in not going to the ER unless I know I have too or unless I am seeing symptoms I know point to something bad. But I will tell you, if you think you are having a heart attack, do NOT go to an Urgi-Care. My wife went to one of those once and they wanted to run an EKG on her. They hooked up all the electrodes bass-ackwards and came up with funky results they couldn’t interpret. But had no problem charging us for the service. We ended up going to the ER and took the U-C EKG print out. The Doc at the ER immediately recognized what they did. He had to reperform the test and it was normal.

@seawulf575 I’m with you about only going to the ER when it’s trully dire. I also learned a while back that urgent care is more or less a doctor’s office with longer hours. Heart attack needs a hospital. Same with if you need immediate blood tests, or a significant diagnostic done. Urgent care is antibiotics, maybe to treat a cut, and I just learned you can get IV fluids at an urgent care near me, I would not have known that previously.

I’m bad about going to the ER too. But the two times I have gone it turned out I had life threatening conditions.

Glad it was caught and so glad she’s doing fine @seawulf575.