I can give you a horror story if you really want. This is not my story, but a girl I know quite well (she's sort of my sister in law).

She had a c/s due to a failed induction at 40 weeks, 5 days. If you ask me, there was no need to induce yet and all of this could have been prevented had her doctors had a little more patience.
She had been given an epi during her labour and then another top-up for the c/s. Well, it didn't work. Not like it should anyway. She said it worked enough to numb her a bit, but she felt everything. They didn't believe her when she told them that she felt the incision so they kept going. Her sister who was waiting outside says that she has never heard screaming like that in her life. Ella (the woman who was having the c/s) says that she felt hands in her stomach and although it felt a little foggy, it hurt like hell. They noticed their mistake and put her uner completely to finish the op. When the baby finally got taken out (it took them much longer than normal), it was blue and didn't breath. The father tells me of his horror at the attempts to rescucitate his daughter and at the same time, his girlfriend lying there, being stitched up with the memory of her screaming still fresh in his mind. He was soooo traumatised for months after the birth. They did manage to revive the little girl. She's now almost 1 1/2 and although her development is on the slow end of the spectrum, there does not seem to be any brain damage. At least nothing significant. The mother was only able to hold her little girl around 10 hours after the birth. She was in enormous pain. She suffered a nasty infection from the c/s and then, a few days later they discovered a big abscess growing under her scar. So they had to open it up again and drain it. All in all, she was in hospital for about a month. She was soooo sick. It took forever for the infection to clear up completely.
The story has an ultimately good ending as she still managed to bond well with her daughter and BFing worked out well, too. She is an amazingly strong woman and only a couple of days after her ordeal my mother talked to her about the experience. She said, looking at her daughter's face: "I would go through this again in a heart beat!"

1 year later her sister (the one who heard the screaming) had to have a c/s herself and she was absolutely freaked out by that. But hers went really smoothly and she recovered very quick.

I do however agree with the others. A decision shouldn't be based on which stories are the more horrifying but rather on statistical chances of outcome. From this point of view the picture is pretty clear: maternal and fetal outcome is better after a VBaC than after a repeat elective c/s. Of course there are circumstances that counterindicate a VBaC, so talk to your health professionals. I am glad to hear they seem to be supportive of a VBaC. Most women are not that lucky and have to fight for the right to have a VBaC.

I hope your birth will go smoothly no matter what you decide to do.
All the best, Saša