A funny trigger story - a pleasant read....

so here's my trigger story that happened to me today.....

Well, talking about triggers and what can make you flashback. I woke up this morning with a shining black eye, a real bruiser, looks like I was hit by Mike Tyson, how did I get it.. well, yesterday my Great Dane dog decided she'd smack her skull bone into my eye brow bone and we went for the clash, it friggin hurt like ****, I didn't think about it till later when the bruising started to come out, well this morning I look like I've done 10 rounds in the ring, I oddly looked at my face and the trigger was it put me back 20 years to my violent abuse by my ex-boyfriend who was a boxer incidently and left many a bruised eye on me, so I go to the store with my son and can't help but notice people noticing my black eye, and them forming an opinion as I stood their at the cash register. It was hard for me to look in the mirror today, and see the bruising staring back at me and it was a very triggering moment but then I looked at my lovely Great dane and it all slips away, her eyes melted me and I knew she was there for me. so triggering moments are not always terrible to go through. Funny what things can happen.

A cigar is just a cigar and a black eye, just a black eye :-) I'm so glad you could share your story and that you can get some comfort from your dog. What's her name?

When I was a kid I got caught in the crossfire of a neighborhood game where we were using sycamore tree "pods" http://carolynhietalanatureartpainti...ing-round.html to throw at each other. They're semi-soft, like using rubber bullets I guess :-) but one got me right there too, on the eye socket from nearly point blank range (someone on my team was aiming for my brother, on the other team who was behind me) and blackened both my eyes. It wasn't a problem because it was early 1960's but we moved across country a week later and everyone along the way kept asking "what happened???"

perna,
quite right, there was no disquising it this morning. course my husband was joking about it. her name is Bella, and she's just turned a year so she'll all puppy still, jumping about and acting silly. she's had no formal puppy training so she can be a handful.

my sister had a similar story to yours but the team was playing with a cricket ball, hit her smack in the mouth and took out about 4 teeth, ouch....