How much bad luck can one guy have in his lifetime?

Answer 1

As someone once said, if it wasn't for bad luck, I wouldn't have no luck at all.

Answer 2

No telling, some guy have so much bad luck that if it were NOT for the bad luck, they would have NO luck at all.

Answer 3

tons of it! I seem to have plenty to go around, want some? You know that movie "just my luck" with Trashy Lohan? Well, im the guy in the movie, before he gets her luck...thats totally me.

Answer 4

As much as one chooses to attract/manifest. (Or one could simply have many life lessons to learn.)

Answer 5

Quite a bit.

Answer 6

Only your Karma knows.

Answer 7

Get married then have kids and sit back and wait, you'll find out....

Answer 8

you really don't want to know.

Answer 9

That depends on what the cause of the bad luck is.

Before I met my husband he had racked up a total of nine major car accidents where he had totaled his car against trees and phone poles and didn't know how it happened.

He had also had been a bedwetter into his early teens until his folks ordered a device for his bed that would sense dampness and set off an alarm to wake him up.

As a child he was accident prone. He tripped over his untied shoelace and dislocated his right hip and had to wear a partial body cast for several months.

When we began dating I figured the problems he had staying awake on our dates was due to having a long day or busy day at work.

Once we took a six hour drive to visit some friends for a weekend. I fell asleep during the trip. He did too! When he woke alarmed, it woke me up too. We had driven 1 hour past our turn off point. We had to turn around! He figured he must have dozed off but he didn't have a clue how we had driven that far off our mark.

After we married I began to realize it was necessary to keep alert when we were driving anywhere together especially once our babies were born.

When a blink lasted more than a second and was soon followed by a snore That was my cue to take the wheel or try to wake him.

Of course he denied being asleep and was angry that I had taken the wheel and even had my foot on the brake if it was necessary.

He had four car accidents shortly after our marriage when I wasn't with him and our insurance was over $1000 every six months.

I sensed their was something wrong but I didn't know what.

He really resented when he awakened to find me trying to steer the car. And refused to believe that he had been sleeping. it was frustrating for me but I loved him and I wanted my marriage to work. He insisted on driving when we went anyplace. To keep the peace I let him.

Our children grew up. and I never knew that they were keeping an eye on him too and taking the wheel or waking him whenever necessary.

He had accidents with the machines where he worked and didn't know how they happened. He really didn't know! Had no memory of doing whatever he had done to require the repairs they needed.

I myself am an insomniac.When our children were babies and little, I required a bit more sleep than normal then.
I can stay awake for 36 or more hours before I need sleep. When I do sleep I am a deep sleeper. A bomb could drop and I wouldn't wake me up.

My husband is the opposite he falls asleep easy and fast and goes through all five stages in just a few minutes. He ccan fall asleep at the drop of a hat no matter what he is doing or where he is at.

When he sleeps he normally snores and often times stops breathing.

Over the years he would often get upset with me for having awakened him when I would go in to curl up next to him and discover that he wasn't breathing.

Panicked I would move him into position to give him cpr when he would begin breathing again and wake up and be mad at me for having wakened him.

We've been married 34 years. It took his mother being diagnosed with sleep apnea and her death from congestive heart failure to finally get him to wonder if he had a sleep disorder too.

He talked to our doctor, who arranged for him to undergo a sleep study with a sleep specialist. He had to go through two separate studies.

They revealed that he has two sleep disorders. He not only suffered from Sleep Apnea; he also suffers from Narcolepsy!

Now he has his machine to sleep with at night and his medication to take when he is awake and driving anyplace.

He is finally getting enough sleep and feels rested after he wakes up.

He is a much pleasanter, happier person to be around too
and I am grateful and glad that I hung in there and continued to love him even at his worst moments.

Our life together now is what I always knew it could be.

Fortunately my insomnia seems to have cancelled out the narcolepsy as none of our children have displayed any signs.
Not certain yet about the sleep apnea

He has always had these sleep disorders.

The sleep apnea explains why he wet the bed as long as he did. He would stop breathing, his muscles would relax and his bladder would empty.

The narcolepsy explains why he had all the accidents in cars and with machines he had and couldn't remember how they happened.

Sleep apnea in children and adults is related to SIDS.

In addition to dealing with this on a chronic basis throughout our marriage, we also had a chronically ill child who was born with lung complications and respiratory problems which resulted in asthma which was made worse when she was subjected to second hand smoke.

Both my father -in- law as well as my mother smoked. My mother respected our wishes and would go outside to smoke whenever we visited. My husband's father refused to believe his smoking could harm anyone.

The second time our daughter ended up in intensive care was on mother's day. We had been to his parents for dinner after his mother promised that my father-in-law had agreed not to smoke. After dinner, my husband had to go to work at his part time job. My father-in-law forgetting his promise lit up a cig and smoked. I had been helping my mother -in-law with the dishes and the children were in the living room with him.

My daughter was only around 18 months at the time. She began coughing and wheezing right away and I could hear her from the kitchen so I went to check on her with my mother-in-law trailing behind me.

We seen him smoking but neither of us said anything. We knew it wouldn't do any good. Mom and I took my daughter and her medicine and breathing treatment machine to the bedroom away from the smoking.

I gave her her dose of medicine and placed her on her machine for a treatment and log the time and everything in my notebook I kept on her. The notebook was thorough with dates times, meals, medicine, symptoms she was showing at a given time, etc

After the treatment and giving her plenty of fluid to drink I changed her diaper and said to my mother -i-law that it would be best if she had a chance to rest and let the medicine work.

We checked on her frequently. She didn't get better, her lips were turning dk blue along with her fingernails and toenails.
and her expirations and inspirations were becoming more labored and noisy.

I told mom we needed to get her to the ER and I called the doctor's to emergency line to let them know we were bringing her in.

We arrived. Our regular pediatrician wasn't on call that weekend. The pediatrician that was on call was good and was familiar with our daughters medical condition.

He ordered blood tests and oxygen right away along with a shot of epinephrin!

When he received the results of the blood test, he stormed into the ER and demanded to know who had been smoking around our daughter!

Her blood tests revealed her carbon dioxide level had exceeded her oxygen level to such a degree that the only thing that could cause it was being exposed to cigarette smoke.

My mother-in-law hung her head and told the doctor that her husband had been smoking after he had promised not to.

My daughter was place into ICU 3 lobes of her lungs had collapsed from not being able to get enough oxygen in time.

My mother-in-law went home and told her husband what his smoking had done to their granddaughter. He never smoked around us again. He smoked outside or in his garage.That was in the 1970's.

In 1986 my father-in-law died from lung cancer.

It also didn't help that her medications contained preservatives such as sulfides to which she was sensitive too also no thanks to the FDA, who left them in the medication but removed them from salad bars and delis as they cause respiratory failure in young children and elderly people

Our 20 % out of pocket came to over $80, 000 which took us forever to pay off. It didn't help when our car insurance was astronomical due to my husbands accident record. With her health problems causing a financial drain my husband insisted on dropping our full coverage auto insurance down to just PLPD. So when one of us wrecked a car beyond repair
we had to come up with the money to replace it.

Things weren't easy and my husband often wondered why he had so much bad luck.

It really didn't have to do anything with luck it had to do with major health problems going undiagnosed. The third being is that he himself has asthma but because his doctor never diagnosed him in childhood he wouldn't acknowledge he had it until he ended up being hospitalized for it himself.

I don''t know what problems you are having. Or what is the cause of your bad luck perhaps if there were more details of what you have gone through perhaps there would be a solution.