Do you feel like a "Guardian Angel" is watching over you?

@ljcapps (1925)
United States
January 11, 2007 9:12pm CST
What's your experience that makes you think that? Personally I've been in accidents that i shouldn't have walked away from, and did. I've been in situations that could have turned a lot uglier, and somehow, they didn't. So it makes me wonder.. Did you ever look up just in time to avoid getting hit by a car? Tell me your "Angel/Ghost" stories!
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@brokentia (10389)
• United States
24 Mar 07
No, I can't say that I think that anyone is watching over me. But I can say that someone is watching over my son. My youngest son is almost 6 years old. And from birth he had so many things going on. He had sleep apnea that was turning deadly but doctors thought that I was being a paranoid mother and that it was allergies. Finally, we found a doctor that ran tests and he discovered that his adenoids and tonsils were so enlarged that when he fell asleep, his airway would block completely. At that time, my son did not talk either...4 years old. Because the adenoids were pressing on his inner ear making him deaf. It was also reducing his oxygen intake to the point that a 4 year old was wearing 18 month old clothes! Yeah...paranoid mother! ha ha The doc did surgery right away and said that if we would have waited another 6 to 8 months, his airway would have been blocked completely at the growth rate. One day...he would have just stopped breathing. Another thing with my son...he was injured by a sitter...to the point of multiple skulls fractures and a broken femur. He was in traction for two weeks. A body cast for 3 months. Couldn't walk and had to learn to walk all over again....he was barely 3 yrs old at that time. Poor little Noah has been through so much in his life....I know that someone is watching over him!
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@brokentia (10389)
• United States
24 Mar 07
If you ever want to borrow one...ha ha The sitter was my brother...it took all my power to not kill him myself! So, we moved 3,000 miles away. Cops could not press charges because little Noah was deaf and could not speak...and there were no witnesses. So, they passed it off as a "freak accident". I can tell you where they can put that report! And yes, he is doing amazing now!!! He just hit size 5!!! Which, if you consider that he was wearing a size 18 months a year and a half ago...he hit a growing spurt and a half after surgery!!!! Which the doctor said would happen because the level of oxygen was just too low that the little tyke was not getting enough to grow. Now he is growing big! It amazes me how fast he is catching up in height AND speech!!!! He talks! :) The first words I heard my baby speak a year and a half ago brought tears to my eyes. So, yes, I am very protective of him also. :)
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
24 Mar 07
I don't blame you. it would have brought tears to my eyes also, and it's great that he's getting so big. that's really really great. But no, i don't want to borrow one. LOL i don't know how you do it. Sometimes i dont' know how my wife does it, and we've only got the one! LOL I'm really excited that he's doing that much better! I'm grateful you found a doctor that listened to you, and remember with your not brother, that what goes around comes around. sooner or later he will get his for hurting an innocent child. I deeply believe that. Maybe he'll come back as a forgotten twinkie with consciousness in his next life. forgotten on a shelf for a hundred years with bugs taking little bites out of him. yeah..i like that.
@brokentia (10389)
• United States
24 Mar 07
ha ha I can think of far worse than a forgotten twinkie. LOL But I believe in karma also. And I am sure that one day, he will get back what he deserves...at least, I hold onto that thought when I think about him.
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• Ireland
12 Jan 07
I think there may be gaurdian angels - I'm not sure. I certainly believe in fate, though, and that everything happens for a reason. My sister has narrowly avoided 2 terrorist attacks, and the tsunami. The London bus that was blown up in the recent attacks was the same bus (at the same time slot) that she had taken into university up until she had moved area a couple of months before. I tend to look on everything in terms of fate. For example a few months ago my family were due to drive to the airport for a flight the following day, and our car packed up. I immediately thought 'Oh well we were probably saved from a car accident or something.' When I was living in South Africa I used to take a minibus taxi to and from work every day. At the time there were (and still are) really bad 'taxi wars' going on between the taxi companies, and all minibus taxis were HEAVILY armed. It was however the only way i could afford to get to work!!! I always took the same taxi home, because I left work at exactly the same time every day. It just happened that this day I was held up, only for about 5 minutes, but I had to take the next taxi 5 minutes later. When we got near our destination, we heard police and ambulance sirens, and there were helicopters flying around, and the taxi rank was closed, as there had been a massive gunfight between two taxis. One of them was the taxi I usually took, and many of the passengers inside it had been killed...
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@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
12 Jan 07
All I can say to that is "wow." and then "wow" again! I believe in Fate, and i guess Destiny, to a certain end. I believe that there are things that are meant to happen no matter what road you take, and truly that when it's your time to go, you'll go. Thank you for sharing those experiences, they really open your eyes, don't they?
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• Ireland
12 Jan 07
yes they do! do you have any more stories? oh, I've just remembered another, although this could have just been precognition. One morning, for some inexplicable (at the time) reason, my Mom decided to wear ALL her rings to work that day, which is something she never does. She said she felt they would be safer with her. Anyway that day we had a MASSIVE burglary and a whole lot of stuff was stolen!
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@eaforeman6 (8979)
• United States
12 Jan 07
Yes, there really are guardian angels. Sometimes you may not see them but you feel their presence or they save you somehow. They will always let you know its them.Fantastic post!
@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
12 Jan 07
Thanks so much! I've always been interested in the "supernatural" or anything like that. I'm a firm believer that there are things out there that we can't see.
• Indonesia
12 Jan 07
i don't know wether a guardian angel does exist or not, but in my life experience, i've been escapes from danger or fatal accidents many times, one thing that i still remember till now is when i was 8 years old, i was falling from my bicycle on the street and almost get hit by a truck that fortunately stop just a few centimetres in front of my eyes. I can't stop trembling for hours at that moment. Was that a guardian angel that stopping the truck ? ... im still wondering till now ...
@ljcapps (1925)
• United States
12 Jan 07
I had a similiar experience where i was about 7, and so excited to get to the bus stop that i ran out in the road ahead of my family and had a truck stop just the same, barely centimeters away from hitting me. I don't know that there's enough luck to account for walking away from that plus the other situations i've managed to walk away from when i shouldn't.