Which one sentence changed your life?

There is a heart beat !!

After what was thought to be second miscarriage.
My daughter finally got her baby and us our first grandchild.

You are no longer fit to work and will never be able to teach again.

I was devastated, but now I love not having to work.

Similar here, Cherytree - after 2 misses when dd was already late 30s and newly pregnant again, I had come to dread answering the phone until we got the ecstatic call to say, 'I just had the 8 week scan and everything's fine!'

So many, but the one that totally changed my life - and for the better - was The Wonderful Man's marriage proposal. A few hours ago he arrived home from a trip to a remote part of Africa where he's been working as a volunteer on a building project, and even after more than thirty years together I was so overjoyed to see him again my heart was going like the clappers.

You've passed ( 11+)

Just gave birth to my second child to be told by midwife
"did you say you would like a girl, yes I said, well that's what you have got this time" I was beyond thrilled.

Yes, you do have multiple sclerosis.

You have little girl!

There’s the head, the body.....and there’s another head. Twins!

Its definitely inflammatory arthritis, you'll be registered partially sighted and disabled within the next 10 years.
With that the ophthalmologist turned on his heel and left me.

I was 47.

It’s a boy!! (After several girl babies.)

You are no longer a part of mine and (our GC's) name and are to stay away. From our estranged son, almost 6 years ago.

You're pregnant. Wonderful and totally unexpected news.

The young fellow facing me sat rocking in his chair, hands behind his head, when he said you have Macular Degeneration, there is no cure and you are going to go blind. I wished he would fall off his chair!

Charleygirl how dreadful a 'bedside manner'. I hope despite the horrible shock you managed to tell him that somehow.

Yes, you do have multiple sclerosis

Mine too, Kathsue

Having dropped DH at the hospital at 7am for a gastroscopy and being told to collect him at 2pm, I received a phone call from him at 10.30 to say ‘Can you come back, the doctor wants to speak to you’.

My heart sank. They had found he had oesophageal cancer and he died a year after diagnosis.

My world changed forever.

Your husband has just died.

You've been a good and loyal wife, but I want more.

'You'll never get a degree!' I made sure I did, and now I have two!!

After divorcing my 2nd husband for mental cruelty, who nearly cleaned me out with his drinking etc I worked like a Trojan, achieved promotions at work and was able to buy a beautiful house. A friend of a friend approached me a few years later and said “ what you have been thro and what you have achieved, you are truly an inspiration to all women” ... I cried !!

The first sentence of a song - "Grandma, we love you" - played over the phone to us - to announce the wonderful (and unforseen) news of a pending arrival....

This is very trite compared to most of you, but it did change my life. Coming to the UK had been my dream all my life, but after arriving in my 40's I still had the babbling mouth of an American. One day at the pub, a nice man interrupted me (when I took a breath) and said "My dear, sometimes less is more!" The penny immediately dropped and I thought carefully before I spoke from there on.

'You have cancer'

i have been looking after a 16 year old dog with dementia for 18 months, it has the usual related problems with the
condition, i have gone between periods of considering euthanasia mostly due to my frustrations and being tied down.I saw a tv prog on a charity looking after old sick animals, they were asked why don't you put them down the answer was we don't put people down, as long as we treat them with care and value why should we? the time is obvious when the time beckons to euthanase.I realised if i do things out of love then its easy. My caring has been transformed and my dog has more peace about her, love is better for us both.