Counting My Blessings!

Anyone who knows me, knows that my biggest fear is death. Death of a spouse, death or a child, death of a parent. Tuesday the 17th my fear was almost realized. My mom was on her way to work that morning when another driver lost control of his car and spun into on coming traffic. Mom had no time to respond and crashed head on into him. There were also 2 other cars involved. She was taken by ambulance to the hospital with a badly broken ankle. Thank God it wasn't worse! Her car is totaled! The whole front of the car is gone. No battery, no engine. It is all smashed beyond recognition. She took her new car to work that day because of the snow. It has a really annoying alarm if you don't wear your seat belt, so she was wearing it. She usually doesn't. If she had taken her other car everything would be different without a doubt. When the E.M.T. asked her if there was anyone else in the car with her she said just me and God. She has had one surgery and will be going in for another on Thursday, and then another in about 10 days. They said she might need up to about 6 total. Considering the alternative we will take the bad ankle. The driver of the car that hit her didn't even have a drivers license. I will try to keep this blog updated with her progress and I will post pictures soon. I am counting my blessings and thanking God that I still get to have my mom with me!

This is the car that hit her. She hit him in the front, head on and then he spun off her and hit someone else in his side door.

Here you can see how the car folded in on itself, just like it was supposed to do. The front wheels are pushed way back and you can see the wrinkles.



This picture shows how smashed everything is. Nothing is where it is supposed to be. You can see the battery was smashed and has a whole in the bottom. The electrical panel, the air cleaner and the belt pulley are not even close to where they are supposed to be and that metal bar is supposed to be in the front of the car. It just folded itself up.

The steering column is pushed into the dash. We can't even get the key out of the ignition. She says she doesn't even remember the air bad coming at her. It must have hit her teeth, because they are loose and I think that is where that little bit of blood is from. She doesn't have any scapes or bruises on her face. Only a few on her hand and arms. She has a small mark from the seat belt on her neck, but she really looks good.

This is her ankle after her first surgery. She has a titanium external brace on that is holding her ankle in place until they can do another surgery to screw her bones all back together.