The ACCIDENT

A lot has happened since my last entry. How do I cram the last seven months into a paragraph or two? Well, the biggest thing that happened was my daughters accident. August 27, 2008. The night before her 14th birthday. She was camping with her friends family at Emmigrant Lake and I had a huge surprise party planned for her b-day. I was bringing up a van load of her friends with cake, decorations, presents etc. The night before her b-day and the surprise party at the lake, I received a horrible phone call. Her friend called me up and told me that Shawny got hurt and I could hear her in the backround screaming!
She was speeding downhill on a bike, saw a bear, swerved and slammed on the brakes, and flipped the bike a few times, flew and landed head first on the ashpalt in the middle of the street near the lake! She could not move anything, was in extreme pain and we feared she was paralyzed. That was the worst hour of my life, not knowing what was going on, driving to meet the ambulence at the Ashland ER. We were all quiet as Sheldon prayed and cried and prayed for his sister in the back seat.
The verdict: A severely broken collarbone-almost poked through skin-5 inches separated (needed surgery) a huge bump on head (thankfully no concussion though she passed out for a few seconds), bloody road rash, sprained wrist and ankle, chunks of missing skin from knee and hand, etc. We were so thankful that she was not paralyezed, she was blessed and spared from far worse injuries.
An awesome note here is that before Shawny and her friend went on this bikeride (at night), Shawny had a feeling that they should bring a phone, she asked her friend if she had her cell phone, Thankfully Shawny was inspired and her friend went back to get it. If Taylor didn't have her phone on her, she would of had to leave Shawny all alone in the middle of the street to go and get help! Thank you Heavenly Father for protecting my child. Thankyou Shawny for 'listening'...Also my parents had just been down to visit us from AZ and my dad had given Shawny a thick "poofy" coat. Shawny was wearing this at the time of the accident and it protected her from getting far worse road rash! Thanks dad.
She now has had two surgeries and last Friday Jan 30th, just had her stiches from the last surgical incision removed! She had a 8cm rod in her!!! She is still on pain pills and is healing up from having the rod removed. She has three scars now as a reminder of "the accident". She has fun making up different stories (as jokes) of how she got those scars..."doing a double back flip at a BMX race and crashed, got attacked by a bear, was stabbed, Freddy Kruger got me, etc etc. It was hard that she had to start her Freshman year of highschool by being on bed/home rest recovery for SIX WEEKS!!! She is glad she doesn't have to wear the upper body brace and sling anymore! We are also done with Physical Therapy! yay!
Six months later and she is still recovering but I am thankful that it is almost over. My kids are my biggest blessings in my life. I have to get back to work now but will write some more later today hopefully. I have so much to fill you in on!