There has been so much on my mind lately and I figured I’d share it with all of you! I guess you could say this is me getting everything off my chest.
Last Friday one of my good friends was in a horrible car accident. She was going home from school with her younger brother, she’s a senior this year and he is a freshman. He is alright, just a few stitches under his chin; however, Rachael got the worst of it. She burst her eye and broke her jaw and nose. She was life lighted to Joplin, then from there to Kansas City to Children’s Mercy. There they reconstructed her eye and put a plate in her jaw. The doctors informed her parents there was a chance that she would lose her eye; however Sunday morning her doctor shown a light in it and she seen something!! Later that afternoon she was released from ICU and I went up to see her Monday. She looked great compared to what my imagination was showing me. Her face was swollen and she had a patch over her eye. For what she went through, she was in high spirits and ready to take a bath! The hardest part for me was that when I entered her room she latched onto my hand and kept squeezing it. I didn’t let go for a long time. While I was sitting by her I kept thinking about all the good times we had, had. The horse back ridding, volleyball games and those nights where there wasn’t anything to do and we just rode around listening to music trying to figure out the words. Rachael I knew was going to be okay, no matter how the pain hurt, she was being tough and she had many medicines to take some of it away. I left that night in high spirits also because when you are around someone like her, you can’t help but smile and look at the bright side.
Tuesday came and it was like a turn for the worst. Her eye was giving her so much pain that she was begging for the doctors to take it out. Her parents knowing that there was a chance for her vision to come back in that eye, and that there was a possibility that she would lose her vision all together, made it clear what Rachael wanted to do. She was terrified, but she knew it’d be alright. The surgery went well and she is in less pain. If you didn’t know Rachael had a prostatic eye, you wouldn’t be able to tell. It looks like the real deal! Our technology today is truly amazing.
Wednesday came and went and there was a special prayer for Rachael and her family. She was recovering great. Thursday came and the doctors told her she might be going home as soon as Friday!! That was great news to her and her parents. I haven’t heard anything so far today, but I’m hopeful that she will be coming home shortly.
*She was wearing her seat belt(or she wouldnt be alive)and she was not on her phone(thank the Lord!).
Monday while I was heading to Kansas City, by boyfriends dad was in a semi going up a hill and an elderly lady was going down it at a pretty high rate of speed, and smashed into Mike, he, thankfully, is okay, just shook up very badly. After he was hit, he got out of the semi and found the lady in her car dead. While that was going on, two other people I knew of was in a bad wreck and died instantly.
Please keep these people in your prayers and my gripe is that when you are driving PAY ATTENTION, true that it’s not always your fault; but if you’re paying more attention then maybe you can save a life.
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