<p>My friend received a call yesterday from her freshman daughter that one of her new college friends had just found out she was 4-5 months pregnant. I don’t know if the baby’s father was attending the same school.</p>
<p>Those would be life-changing phone calls…</p>
<p>Once when I was in college, we April Fool-pranked my boyfriend’s mom by calling her and telling her this … she was not amused.</p>
<p>A HS friend once called me, years after the last time I had seen or been in touch with her to tell me she was scared and pregnant but refused to consider confiding in her folks about it. She planned to have an abortion. I urged her to carefully consider and consult her folks and a counselor to carefully consider her options. </p>
<p>It was a call that surprised me because I didn’t think we were that close. I really hope she did get counseling and speak with her folks, as that is a lot to process, especially when you’re scared.</p>
<p>HImom, how sad that she didn’t have anyone closer to her in whom she could confide.</p>
<p>Yes, I was thousands of miles away at the time and surprised she was able to reach me. I really felt bad that physically I was so far away and couldn’t really get over to give her a hug and more support. It was so “out of the blue,” that it really threw me for a loop. Maybe I was “safer” because I was physically so distant and we didn’t have many mutual friends or acquaintances? I just felt very sad for her to be in such a tough spot and not getting the support I wanted her to have. </p>
<p>Years later, her kids were in grade school with mine. She never mentioned that phone call again and I never brought it up.</p>
<p>S1: “Now, don’t worry about it, but I thought you should know that I’m in the Emergency Room with a collapsed lung. The doctors think I’ll be fine now that they’ve put in the chest tube”. That one was measurably worse than the one when he was 10: “How do I get a bird out of the house?”.
D: " I was riding my bike to the other side of campus and just got hit by the guy on the riding lawnmower near the parking garage. My bike is fine but my knee is really messed up".
S2 (who had the red convertible that was his father’s brilliant idea for a car for a 17yr old to drive in an area where snow & ice are a fact of life for 9 months of the year): " Do you know how to get a car out of a ditch?"</p>
<p>Ah, the memories…</p>
<p>This seems to follow the general theme of this thread:</p>
<p>“Mom, which urgent care center near campus did you say takes our insurance?”
“Ummm… could you try the student health center first?”
“Nope. This is definitely going to require an x-ray.” </p>
<p>Yup, broken ankle, 4 days before classes started.</p>
<p>Call one evening when DS was a high school sophomore, “Ma’am? This is XPD - we have your son here, he says he is walking home, he appears to have been drinking. Can you come pick him up?” </p>
<p>Later that same evening, knock on the door - 2 uniformed officers on our doorstep, “We’ve received a call that DS is being held here against his will, is everything all right?” Obviously not!!</p>
<p>“Where’s the best place to get a CAT scan at this time of night”</p>
<p>fell off horse, but did drive home.</p>
<p>Any text that starts out with “Don’t freak out but…”</p>
<p>Got one of those yesterday from D2 and then a call today from D1 who just moved across the country, is starting a new job tomorrow, and got rear ended by a car of teenagers. Nobody hurt, thank goodness but a lot of car damage.</p>
<p>Today’s text, from D who lives in an off-campus apartment:</p>
<p>“Realistically, how much does it cost to get a cat neutered and pay for all its shots?”</p>