Your Biggest "Coincidence"

[Kinch]

Just lost 18yo cat suddenly the other day. Our 16yo golden is looking worse by the day. It won't be long there either. Our last one lived to 16 and passed on our living room floor. Two goldens in 32 years I know its a good run definitely not ready.

Thinking of you.

 

[CyclonePigskin]

Visiting my in-laws in Tucson, AZ, met their neighbor who had grown up in the house where we lived.

 

[AllInForISU]

Went to SeaWorld a few years ago and was wearing ISU gear. A worker saw that and started talking to me about the Midwest and turned out he grew up in the same town, on the same street as me. He was probably 15-20 years older than me so I didn’t know him at all, but I confirmed with my parents that his parents still lived there. It’s a town of 3400.

 

[CyCoug]

Maybe not the biggest coincidence, but about a month ago we were in the middle of nowhere Idaho on our way to Grand Teton National Park. We stopped at a cafe in a town that has to have a population of under 1000 people.

After getting our lunch served we heard a big crash behind us and our waitress collapsed and was having a fulll grand mal seizure (I didn’t know what was going on at the time.

My wife was an ICU nurse prior to moving into healthcare management and was able to immediately know what to do and offered aid for the 40 minutes it took an ambulance to arrive from the nearest hospital.

The waitress had never had a seizure in her life apparently. My wife says she almost certainly would have been ok without someone giving aid, but I still think that’s quite fortunate a qualified medical professional was right there.

 

[StClone]

I'm not in any way equating this to your situation, but I had this exact thing happen with our first dog. He was about to turn 10. Our dog was in great health and had never had any issues to this point.

I was having a beer with a friend one afternoon and I was going on about how great of a dog we had and said "But he's getting older and his time will come, I suppose. Some day we're going to have to say goodbye." Got up the next day and he was acting weird. We had to say goodbye a few hours later due to hemangiosarcoma (cancer that causes a blood vessel to burst resulting in internal bleeding); 100% fatal.

So hard to read this without tears burning my eyes. I may not be a lot of things, but my love of our great companion is one that defines me. My B-I-L just texted, his sweet girl Pearl just passed. Good little rescue pup.