What's the worst thing you've ever been woken up to?

[mantysk8coach]

A bat flying around the living room (where we were sleeping on the pullout) of my best friends cottage.

 

[leebee]

It was 1:36 am. My cell phone rang. It was my daughter screaming. I ran across the street to her house to find ambulances outside. My six-year-old granddaughter had been rushed out by the EMTs after a severe asthma attack that had led to cardiac arrest. We followed the ambulance to the hospital. She was put on life support and after a day and a half we had to say goodbye to her.

NannyBeBe, I am so, so sorry.

A month before I turned 14, the phone rang at 8am, although I was already awake. It was the hospital, calling to say my father had died.

One night, September 2000. It was almost midnight, and our neighbor called to ask me to come stay with her girls as her husband was dead and she had to go identify him. He'dmgone out for his evening run and never came home. The police had found him a couple of streets over. No, I didn't go watch her kids. I got another neighbor to do that while I took her to the morgue.

>>The worst... 3am phone call from DD... "Mom, I'm scared and I don't know where I am and I don't know how I got here and can you come find me?" I was out of the house in my pajamas, into the car in a flash, telling her to get outdoors and start describing things to me while I was driving like a madwoman. This was a long time ago and of course I found her and yes, she finally recovered, but it was easily the worst phone call of my life. Lesson learned: When you go out to a bar, don't ever lose sight of your drink, especially if you live in a college town.

 

[disney212]

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4 am call on April 10, 2010 telling me my 61 year old mom had suddenly died. No cause was ever found.

 

[superme80]

I do hope your own creepy kid? Not a random kid or a ghost

Sadly I have 3 creepy kids who taken turns scaring the heebeejeebees out of me. Usually it is my middle son. He had a bad habit of climbing into bed with me when I was pregnant with my youngest. Frequently would wake up to a random face staring at me.

 

[Pooh2]

A 7 am phone call to let us know that our 9 year old nephew died of an undetected heart defect.

 

[MrJT]

My appendicitis back in 1997.
Then a couple of years later, I was stationed in Hawaii, and the phone rang around 4 or 5 AM on 9-11.

 

[jaybirdsmommy]

My 16 year old son's foot hanging through the living room ceiling. His meds had stopped working and apparently the people that lived in the attic had invited him up for a chat. Only part of the floor up there is finished and he didn't know to walk on the beams. I was so dead asleep when it happened that all I could do for at least a minute is repeat "why is there light coming through the ceiling? there shouldn't be light there." Then I noticed the foot.

Second worse thing was waking up from an after work nap to realize that there were multiple messages on my answering machine and my cell phone message light was lit up as well. My parents had found my grandfather dead at his house and had been trying to reach me for the entire hour I was asleep.

 

[NannyBeBe]

I just want to say thank you for all your kind responses. It has been three years but the pain is still very real. It is comforting to know that people care.

 

[bethbuchall]

I think that the worst was my out-of-town, adult daughter texting me early in the morning on her birthday, two days before they were leaving for a trip to Amsterdam, to tell me that her basement was filling with water. (After that there were enough flight issues that I was worried that maybe they weren't meant to go, but it all worked out in the end even though it cost more and cut a few days off of the trip.)

 

[belleatdisney]

Nannybebe I am so sorry for your family’s loss. How heartbreaking.

 

[mrsap]

9/11

 

[lilmc]

turns out he vomited on the pale beige carpet outside our bedroom door and he had been eating raspberries which in the middle of the night looks an awful lot like blood when you are not wearing your glasses!

Yes! We had black raspberry vomit from our two daughters in the middle of the night years ago. I rush in dazed and no glasses on, think “oh my gosh, that’s blood clots” brief panic then, “nope, just black raspberries, let’s get you cleaned up sweetie”.

 

[wendypooh22]

The Northridge earthquake in California

This was my answer also.. SCARY!!!

 

[OKW8297]

Woke up to a contraction for my first baby on his due date. 2:30 am he was born at 9:38 that night.

 

[MomOfDisneyPrincess]

Gallbladder attack - twice before I was able to have it removed.

Less excruciating, but more freaky was when I felt a little movement in my hair that was long and draped across my pillow. I moved my hand in a sweeping motion across the hair/pillow and the back of my hand come into contact with something! My hand jerked and I sat up so fast! The thing was flung across the room and there sat a poor, little baby mouse. He was dazed for minute before dashing behind the dresser.

I was single and living alone at the time and was so freaked out, I stood on the bed for several minutes, trying to calm down and figure out what I was going to do. I was able to reach the laundry basket of clean, folded laundry and pulled out some clothes to put on. A dash to the closet for shoes and I was feeling much more brave.

With mixed emotions, I set about killing an entire family of mice that weekend!

 

[LSUmiss]

Phone call from my dad who was alone in the hospital telling me that he he had just been told that he had stage 4 cancer. He died a month after that call.

 

[robinb]

An earthquake. I was in my 20’s and was on a job interview in San Diego. I ended up standing in a doorway in the middle of the night.

 

[Elle23]

When I was a teenager I woke up to a home intruder shining a flashlight on me. I sat up in bed and tried to scream but was only able to gasp.

Thankfully It scared him and he ran from the house. I know it could have turned out much worse.

We found he had stolen money out of our purses after we called the police and accounted for everything. It was quite a while before I felt safe again.

 

[wildride]

Trivial: DH is that neighbor that mows the lawn 7am on Sunday morning

Deep: Phone call at 3 am saying I should come to the hospital

Pretty sure I would make either your DH or the lawn mower disappear

 

[missnic]

When I was in college we lived in an off campus apartment, on the third floor overlooking the pool. Standard outdoor corridor type place. One night we we were woken up by the bedroom window shattering. It turned out that someone across the parking lot or wherever had a freaking POTATO gun and sent a potato through our window.

Our current house fronts my neighborhood street with a fence around it, a sidewalk, and then a fairly busy 4 lane road road with a slight curve in it. I have lost count how many times we have been woken up in the middle of the night hearing squealing tires and crunching metal. Usually the driver regains control or just spins into the median, but there have been at least 4 fatal wrecks just in front of my house in the 10 years I've been here. I don't know how many times I've called 911, and jumped up to run outside to try to help.