What is the bravest thing you have ever done?

I'm not sure if this is brave but here goes - when late DH had MND I'd gone with him to the GP where a locum was sitting in. She was unhelpful, said that she didn't have the authority to arrange something for him which was said to be routine. Instead of going quietly to reception to arrange yet another appt I stood my ground and loudly insisted (brought up not to say boo to a goose) and eventually she agreed to help. DH said that he'd never seen me so angry.

Later I rang the speech therapist to confirm the procedure just in case and told her of our difficulty. She agreed that we shouldn't have been put through that. Later the GP rang to say sorry and he sounded like a whipped puppy. It seems so trivial but it was a big thing for meek and mild little me to speak out.

Left home at 17, painfully shy, to join the RAF. I was so petrified but I survived, and eventually enjoyed my time in service.

Kate1949 Good god how tragic when fate keeps hitting the same people! Here’s to you and the many others x

Thanks Bluesky It hasn't been a walk in the park that's for sure. Yes sometimes the same families get hit time after time. It's hard to take but somehow we keep getting out of bed in the morning.

to all those people who have cared for sick family members and suffered the loss of their children.
I have personal memories of supporting my daughter and grandchildren in another country while my kind and loving son in law died of cancer. It is a case of just putting one foot in front of the other as Aldom said. My daughter was a trouper throughout it all.

Thank you sodapop for you. It's hard isn't it.

Looking back it was quite brave but I thought nothing of it at the time . When my children were 3 and 1 I started fostering babies who were to be adopted despite still having one of my own still in nappies . I got the babies at 7 days old and just made them slot into our family . My daughter sat on the arm of my chair with a book while I bottle fed the baby and they were never upset when the babies went off to their new homes . I , of course , wept buckets. I handed one baby into the creche at our church along with the other two as we did every Sunday . The lady in charge was a bit taken aback when I said she was a week old .

Having 2 wisdom teeth out in the dentists chair, and then going back one month later to have the other two out. The second trip was brave for me as having the first two out hurt like h..l.

Hi everyone I haven't been brave about anything. I'm scared a lot. Wish I was brave.

Carrying on alone bringing up two small children. Paying a mortgage without income, seeing my c had a good education but with hard work and luck I did it.

I'm not sure whether I was, ignorant, stupid or just young, but I did a fair amount of travelling the world on my own in my twenties (1970s), including a number of communist countries.

I don't know if this is brave but I endured chemo and radio therapy for cancer. Is it brave if you don't have much choice?

agree, i was terrified but more scared of the rest of the family calling me a wimp for years to come. And guess who got the train rattling past when on the steps down outside of the bridge.

Giving a good account of myself in court when questioned fairly intensively by the defence barrister for the man who attacked and raped me. The police said the judge later complimented me on my evidence. He was convicted and sentenced to the maximum term. Job done, I think.

Goodness. Such stories.

Leaving my husband of 23 years with two young children to go it alone. It nearly killed me but looking back it was the best thing I could have done.

Such interesting and moving stories! Well done all of us for our acts of bravery, big or small!

Walking into my first AA meeting on 10th March 2000

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I haven't done anything brave. I have been scared a lot though.

Someone once said to me that you first have to be scared in order to be brave. So if you've been scared but then carried on, you're brave.

Take in my teenage and very troubled grandson in the face of his mother's opposition (he was already in an unsatisfactory foster home). We had to go to court - not in my sphere at all. I am still close to my grandson, but lost contact with my daughter over it. It was very painful and stressful in all sorts of ways but I instinctively knew we had done the right thing.

Entrusting 10 day old ds to a surgeon for brain surgery.

Visiting my DD in prison and not letting her see me cry. She did a stupid thing and paid the price but to me she was the brave one and I am proud of how she took it on the chin and turned her life around.

Having my cataract operations with local anaethetics?

Becoming a blood donor as a needle phobic. It always worried me that anyone needing a transfusion expects it to be available, and only about 4% of the population donate. I did it 35 times and it was fine. And yes, I’ve had both vaccinations!

I was going to say presenting at a national conference, on a panel with government ministers... which I had been dreading but which went very well.

Then I thought about my surviving cancer and recovering well and positively. I think that took a lot of emotional resources. So I will go with facing cancer.

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