Re: God's not done with you yet
Sat afternoon I got the call no parent wants. My daughter was in a car wreck. The guy driving just wasn't paying attention and turned left in front of a car. I don't know how fast the car was going but it was a 55 mph zone. No drugs no booze just not paying attention. The car t-boned the passenger side where she was sitting. The only reason I can figure she is alive is because she was not wearing a seat belt. The seat she was sitting in ended up being 8 inches wide. The rescue squad guys I saw at the hospital said it was one in 10,000 that she isn't dead. She has some stitches and I am flying her to a friend who is a dentist to get some new teeth. Other than that she is black and blue all over. The girl who was in the back seat is was not so lucky. As of yesterday she is still in ICU.
I haven't told anyone this other then Art, but I guess seeing how you have just gone through it maybe its time for me to get it off my chest, kind of ironic..
October I think, I go into work on a Wednesday which is our overlap day so we are double staffed in the jail and I just didn't have it so I asked for the day off, I went home and crashed on the couch about 1430 hours, at around 1530 I got a phone call from my oldest daughter, she is in panic mode, tells me she just wrecked her truck and she is in an ambulance and on the way to the hospital and she has to go...
Click..
I call her back and tell her to give the phone to the paramedic who gives me what he can, she was ejected, truck flipped, State Patrol and the SO is on scene, your daughter has a broken leg and is having trouble breathing but I think its bruising and not life threatening, going to the hospital for further, see you when you get here..
so in 5 minutes on the phone I get dressed run out the door and get 15 miles north of my home headed the 80 miles north to where she is..
I used some friends to get me to the SO Sgt. on scene and he gives me the run down, apparently my daughter was in a hurry, she was late for a luncheon with some of her college Deans etc and in her rush she missed the turn on a well traveled dirt road she drove twice a day from home, she corrected, the truck came back and she over corrected and hit an embankment which launched the truck into the air and rotated, after the first roll she came out the drivers side window, she watched the truck from the ground roll 1/2 times and land on its cab, crushing it but stopping its roll, 6 feet from my daughter.
Art knows I have struggled with my Spirituality over my years, but I have no explanation other then I thank God for watching over my Daughter. I still do not understand what went into the ifs and whys, If I had to go into the jail I wouldn't have been there when she called, if my daughter hadn't been ejected would she survive the cab crushing, If the truck hadn't stopped rolling would I still have my daughter, so many ifs...
I feel your pain Kahuna, your family is in our thoughts and prayers..
Thank you Art.
I guess I forgot the important part...
My daughter is fine now, she had surgery to repair two breaks in her lower left leg, bruised shoulder, lung and hip from landing on the ground I think, she must be my kid since most likely her head broke the window she came out and yet her head never hurt. Insurance replaced the truck and covered the medical bills and she is off and limping (still has a cast on).
