Wow, I have had several things that I have had a bad feeling about and cancelled...and I think we all have some of that gut instinct in us for a reason and need to just try to learn when to cancel or what to do..if it were only that easy.
I had a wedding once that I did cancel about an hour beforehand...it was not anything big and fancy, just a smaller wedding with friends and family. The bad part with that is that he got so crazy angry over me cancelling that I had my bishop come over that same evening and marry us...should have just stick with my instincts on him though hehe
I cancelled a total hysterectomy after my i.v. was in and the dr was running behind on another one because I had a bad feeling about it. The beforementioned ex husband wasn't happy about that bill either, but I truly believe that there must have been a reason I didn't feel right about it...now it could have been something to do with the fact that after going through infertility issues, surgery to conceive my oldest child and actually being on the operating table 5 years later, the lab called the dr in the OR to say do not operate, your patient is pregnant! And if that wasn't a miracle itself, almost the same thing happened again a couple of years later when I was once again preparing to have a hysterectomy...this time I had the pre-op bloodwork done 2 days before surgery..and yet again, I was pregnant! I had POS and fibroids and endometriosis, and couldn't conceive when I would try...but schedule total removal of my female parts and boom! SOOOO, yes, that may have had to do with the fear of having the surgery that day. The bloodwork was not hcg positive but something told me not to go through with it, so I didn't!
I have had many other gut feelings, most involving my children. One when my oldest daughter was 16, 5 years ago, was pretty bad. It was after school got out the day before Memorial weekend break. I called her cell phone to make sure she was okay, she was going to go with my nephew and some friends but had decided to come home instead. Feeling got worse..called the ex who had picked up the youngest two from school for his weekend...they were all back at his house safely, but this feeling still wouldn't go away...then I got the call....my 16 year old nephew, that my daughter was going to go with had been in an accident with several of his friends with him. He passed away that night, but had been unconscious since the accident. They flew him to SLC but even with draining what pressure they could, his brain was too far gone and he had to be removed from the life support.
Boy that was probably too much information, especially for a newbie here, and I am sorry about that..just didn't know how to put that any shorter really....
I myself have a trip to Chicago next week, and of course I am nervous, but that is normal...however if I get a bad feeling about it, you bet I will stay home!
