When were you last really scared?We'd been watching the Shining. We were staying in an old church building. In hindsight, taking the shortcut home after midnight, in the mist, through the old graveyard was a bad idea.
I'm not sure what started it, but suddenly all the hairs on my neck had gone up and I was crapping myself. It was almost as bad as when, after a few cups of coffee too many and buzzing on caffeine, I got freaked out by my own reflection in the toilets.
When were you last really scared?
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chthonic, Thu 22 Feb 2007, 15:43)
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I was alone in the houseon the phone to my fiance, only four days ago.
He suddenly became incredibly breathless and dizzy and from that point on appeared to be having a heart attack. No fucking joke.
I'd only come home from seeing him the previous day and was facing the prospect of life without a man I'd agreed to marry only a few days beforehand. The ambulance couldn't find his house. The pains kept getting worse. Every time he hung up to call them back and give them directions I spent the silence shrieking at the walls, trying to phone my dad at my sister's house (no answer) and mum on her mobile (no answer).
After an hour and a half of solid screaming panic attack I finally got through to my mum who was just coming home from somewhere, and she managed to calm me down. By this point he was in hospital and seemed not to be in any danger - in fact after tests it turned out his heart was perfectly healthy and whatever it was seemed to have been some sort of phantom heart attack.
That's the second time I've been faced with the potential death of a partner and I'd quite like it to be my last.
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Spazzcat jam out with your clam out, Thu 22 Feb 2007, 19:31,
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