what are your biggest fears?

[diggitydot]

They're the slight less desctructive, smaller cousin to the locust. Made of 100% pure evil.

They're the slight less desctructive, smaller cousin to the locust. Made of 100% pure evil.

I am going to have to google those suckers!!!

I think I also have the fear of never being able to return to my home state (Colorado). I love it so much, and there are just so many factors with residency/fellowship/future jobs that it is hard to tell. I miss the mountains sooooo much and my family that it hurts!

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I'm totally with you on this one! Colorado is my home state too-- I really want to end up there in the long-term.

I have the big fears of losing the ones I love. My biggest fear lately is that our kids won't know my parents. We don't have kids yet but I was just talking to my Mom this morning and she and my Dad were on their way out the door to meet my niece down the hill to walk her (along with my other niece, sister, brother-in-law and their bullmastiff) to her first day of 4th grade and I really wish we could have that some day. I miss Northern California, the ocean, the redwoods, I hope we wind up there some day...
As far as totally irrational fears go I am scared of Tornadoes (although we no longer live in tornado alley) and cows. Yes, cows. I have been attacked by cows more than once. Ok, maybe "attacked" is not the right word but stared down and charged at. I think it was probably more my wolf look-a-like mal-mix that inspired their wrath but still, they are big and stupid and scary.

[scrub-jay]

I miss Northern California, the ocean, the redwoods, I hope we wind up there some day...

How far North are you talking? I miss far North, coastal CA too! Big time. And all of my family that is still there.

I am from Oakland, and my whole family is still there. My parents' have 4 redwoods in their backyard. But I love it even farther North than that. I was in a friend from high school's wedding last weekend and my husband actually got a few days off (gasp!) and came out with me. We drove up to Point Reyes, it was wonderful and cool and foggy... I love where we live now, but man could I use a few days without the sun...!

[scrub-jay]

Haha- I am from about an hour south of the Oregon border, right on the ocean. It is a 5.5 hr drive to Oakland from there (on 101). But...I went to school in Oakland and lived there and Alameda for about a total of 5 years. OMG - I miss the food like crazy, and Piedmont Ave. The Bay Area is so much fun, I "hella" miss that place too. hehe

Oh man did that "hella" make me smile! Not trying to hi-jack the thread or anything but where did you go to school? I have a good friend that lives up in Trinity these days. She is actually due in 2 weeks and insists on spending her remaining pregnancy with her parents in the Bay to make sure she's a comfortable distance from Kaiser!

[MarissaNicole]

I have the big fears of losing the ones I love. My biggest fear lately is that our kids won't know my parents. We don't have kids yet but I was just talking to my Mom this morning and she and my Dad were on their way out the door to meet my niece down the hill to walk her (along with my other niece, sister, brother-in-law and their bullmastiff) to her first day of 4th grade and I really wish we could have that some day. I miss Northern California, the ocean, the redwoods, I hope we wind up there some day...
As far as totally irrational fears go I am scared of Tornadoes (although we no longer live in tornado alley) and cows. Yes, cows. I have been attacked by cows more than once. Ok, maybe "attacked" is not the right word but stared down and charged at. I think it was probably more my wolf look-a-like mal-mix that inspired their wrath but still, they are big and stupid and scary.

Similarly my biggest fears are losing someone close to me, whether that be DH, my parents, or other family and friends.

My mom is one of my best friends and I love my family so the thought of not having their support raising kids during residency was really hard for me, but I've been so blessed in that we were able to move closer to them. I was often so jealous that my friends could simply have lunch or run to the grocery store with their mom's.... funny the little things you miss when your long distance from family/friends.

Hopefully your parents will be able to visit often, and vice versa when you have kids.

My mom is one of my best friends and I love my family so the thought of not having their support raising kids during residency was really hard for me, but I've been so blessed in that we were able to move closer to them. I was often so jealous that my friends could simply have lunch or run to the grocery store with their mom's.... funny the little things you miss when your long distance from family/friends.

Yeah, I am definitely jealous of people who get to do these sorts of things. Being away from my mom and my 2 older sisters is hard. The thing is I moved away from home about 10 years ago (well before I met my husband) and I loved it. I sort of thought it was a "badge of honor" to successfully live far away from home and my family. Now I just think it's the pits. The things we realize as grown-ups! And it's not like we are going any where any time in the near future... We were lucky enough to match into a NSG program that is 6 years instead of 7, but 6 yrs is a long while and we definitely want kids within that time frame. But we really aren't all that far away and lucky for us my family is in the position to afford to visit often (or to fly us out!) Hopefully we can find work out there at the end of residency, I would move in a heartbeat, even if it meant taking the California bar!

[diggitydot]

I am going to have to google those suckers!!!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cicadas

The adult insect, sometimes called an imago, is usually 2 to 5 cm (1 to 2 in) long, although some tropical species can reach 15 cm (6 in), e.g. Pomponia imperatoria from Malaysia.

'Nuff said. They're gross.


Oh, and now all you left coasters have me homesick.

[SoonerTexan]

Oh, I have a new one now. Being stalked and killed by some creeper from Craigslist.

I used to start hyperventilating every time I saw a brown recluse spider. DH thought that was irrational, so he *forced* me to smash every one that I saw. I really hated him for it at the time, but I don't have the phobia anymore.

Yikes! Were you seeing them in your house? I thought they are mainly in barns, etc.

My biggest fear is being a prisoner of my own mind, becoming menatally incapicitated. Developing Alzheimer's or dementia or even something like bipolar disorder. My brother is bipolar and sometime I can't even begin to fathom how terrible it would be to not be in control of your moods and thoughts.

Being a prisoner of your own body is a fear of mine too. Like being paralysed or having a stroke.

[HouseofWool]

My biggest fear (outside of the fear of losing my kids etc) is bats. I hate the fuckers with fierce heat of a thousand suns. I think it is all due to childhood trauma. We had a bat infestation one summer. As in the fuckers were in the house every.single.day. Back story, my 80 year old great grandmother lived with us during this period (I really miss her) and I am terribly near-sighted.

So, one fine summer morning I woke up to see a brown thing swooping around my room. I didn't have my glasses on and I was too freaked out to stick my hand out from under the covers and find them. My first thought was that it was a bird, but after much squinting and many swooping passes, I realized that when the thing landed on my curtains, that it was hanging underneath the curtain rod, not sitting on top of it like a bird. I shrieked for my mom to come and help, but the calvary did not arrive. After yelling for an absurdly long time, I realized that Grandma was the only adult in the house and there was no way she was coming up to the second floor to help me.

I honestly don't remember how the story ends, I assume that one of my parents came home (they were working opposite shifts at the time) and took care of it. Regardless, the entire incident has left me with a loathing for the vile creatures. Yes, I know they eat mosquitos, but so do birds and birds don't transmit rabies.