My heart is breaking for my sister’s nephew and his family who lost their 4 year old. Here’s what she sent to me: “Josh found little Audrey and picked her up. My heart just breaks for him. 6 year old Elizabeth remembers EVERYTHING very clearly, from mommy stopping, then going and seeing the semi and trying to stop, getting hit AND her little sister Audrey flying out the window. She is going over and over it. It’s going to be very hard for her. It seems like Alana did everything right, from turning off the air bags in the front passenger seat so Rebekah could sit there (extended pick-up truck), and all the kids were buckled in properly. Nobody knows why Audrey flew out. ”
Please pray for mom & dad, Josh & Alana, for their 3 little girls, Rebekah (had surgery on her skull to relieve pressure from brain swelling), Elizabeth who remembers everything and the other little one whose name I don’t remember.
I was so very sorry to read about that on the weekend thread, Kare. I’ll be praying for them all.
Your request this weekend for prayer for first responders was an important one. A tough job I can’t imagine.
My brother-in-law is an EMT, and he said the hardest scene he was ever at was one where a trailer unhooked from the vehicle that was hauling it on a state highway. A man and his two young sons were following in a small car, and their car was struck by the unhitched trailer. I don’t remember if anything was on the trailer or not, but it hit with such force that the driver of the car and one of his children were killed on impact.
The hardest thing about that particular accident for my BIL was that one of his fellow EMTs was the mother and grandmother of the victims who lost their lives. When the call came in, they didn’t know who was involved in the accident, but when they got to the scene and one of them figured out who the dead were, at least one of the responders tried to keep their colleague from that part of the accident scene.
Didn’t work. She said, “That looks like my son’s car over there…” and they couldn’t keep her back.
Heart-wrenching. 😦 Must be every responder’s nightmare, that possibility of coming to a scene involving a loved one.
My brother was a volunteer fireman and once responded to a fire at my sister’s home. It was one that was easily put out and not too damaging, thankfully.
Art is out of surgery. All is well at this point, stone taken care of. He will have a stent remaining in, but maybe no catheter (depends on how things go in recovery).
Thank you for praying. I have been praying for 6 Arrows husband as I prayed for Art. Hope things are going equally well there, too.
The surgeon just finished, and called me, reporting that everything went well. Hubby didn’t need a breathing tube, as he was only partially sedated, I think the doctor said, so that will make his recovery a little easier. The hernia was larger than he expected, though, and the first three to five days will be pretty tough, but his overall recovery will be easier if we stay on top of the pain with the narcotics and ibuprofen in the first 48-72 hours.
A nurse will be calling in about an hour and a half or two when he can be picked up. I’m going to take a nap now, as I didn’t get much more than 3 good hours of sleep last night.
We are so happy to not be dealing with a catheter.
I have just returned home from the pharmacy and I just want to crash into bed. Knowing I don’t have to help with the catheter bag makes me feel free to get some rest now. What a relief!!!
So glad to hear 6 Arrows husband had a successful surgery. I imagine someone is making a run to the pharmacy near them unless they could get meds at the hospital.
I’m so glad, too, that you don’t have to deal with a catheter, Janice.
Yep, we had to make a run to the pharmacy. The hospital couldn’t call in a prescription anywhere — we had to personally hand the prescription to the pharmacy people because of the narcotics. Between it being a narcotic pain killer prescription, and the fact that it was a workman’s comp claim, I was asked a ton of question, and several phone calls had to be made before the prescription could be filled. We waited over an hour, when they had originally told me it would be 20-30 minutes, but after that time was up, they called me and told me I needed to provide more information and it would be another 15-20 minute wait.
Hubby and I sat in the car most of that time and talked about different household and family matters for the next few weeks, though, so that was good productive time.
But why does it take surgery to have some alone talk-time, LOL?! 😉
And a big praise that a car accident was averted on our way home. We live on a dead-end road, and a county highway runs by it.
As we were approaching our road, a school bus two vehicles ahead of me slowed to a stop on the highway and let our neighbor’s daughter off the bus. She crossed in front of the bus to our road on the left, then the bus went ahead, as did the vehicle in front of me.
I was about to turn left onto our road, but I wanted to wait for the girl to get more to the side of the road for her walk home. (She was at first in the middle of our road after crossing the highway.)
When I saw she got to the left side of our road, then I was about to turn left, but the driver who was stopped behind me was impatient, and in my mirror, I saw the driver abruptly swing into the oncoming traffic lane and try to pass me on the left just as I was about to turn left.
My left-turn signal had been on the whole time I was sitting there waiting to turn.
We would have been hit a good one if I had not glanced in my side mirror right then. The driver whizzed past us, and all I could think was, thank God we didn’t get hit. My husband had been grimacing with every bump in the road on the way home from the hospital — a half-hour drive — and a collision… well, I don’t even want to think about that.
6 Arrows, I always hate when drivers go around impatiently, with no clue of the reason for the delay! In Chicago with one home I lived in, I had to make a right turn at a place where two or three small streets intersected at an angle. Problem is, the road I turned onto had a crosswalk across it, a crosswalk that was actively used, but because of the angle of the streets the second person waiting to turn could not see around the first car to see the crosswalk. So many times I had cars impatiently whiz around me when I was in fact waiting for a pedestrian, and I thought that if I lived or had business on that corner, I wouldn’t dare use that crosswalk. I was afraid that someday I’d see a pedestrian killed by someone who was too impatient.
Another time I was turning left, and the vehicle in front of me was a large motor home that blocked all view of the intersection. When it turned left, the traffic light was yellow, but I had no idea how long it had been yellow, and I wasn’t going to turn left from a complete stop that didn’t even have my nose in the intersection when it might be–and probably was–the tail end of a yellow light. (It was a major intersection and could have been dangerous, as well as being potentially illegal, if I started just as the light turned red.) Maybe that was the right decision and maybe it wasn’t, but I chose to err on the side of safety on that one. Well, the driver behind me thought it was such a bad decision that he blared the horn and swung out and raced around me to turn left, which of course meant he actively ran a red light.
Sometimes it just doesn’t occur to people that a car can be a deadly weapon if used carelessly.
I know a lady who saw a deer running through a field. Knowing she would hit it if she kept going the speed she was, she slowed down. The impatient guy driving behind her whipped around her and, shortly thereafter, collided with the deer. Impatience can be very bad when driving.
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First Arrow dropped off my husband at the hospital this morning for his hernia surgery. Please pray everything goes well. Thanks.
Praying for Art today, too, Janice, with his procedure.
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Praying for y’all, too, 6 Arrows.
We are waiting now to get to a room.
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My heart is breaking for my sister’s nephew and his family who lost their 4 year old. Here’s what she sent to me: “Josh found little Audrey and picked her up. My heart just breaks for him. 6 year old Elizabeth remembers EVERYTHING very clearly, from mommy stopping, then going and seeing the semi and trying to stop, getting hit AND her little sister Audrey flying out the window. She is going over and over it. It’s going to be very hard for her. It seems like Alana did everything right, from turning off the air bags in the front passenger seat so Rebekah could sit there (extended pick-up truck), and all the kids were buckled in properly. Nobody knows why Audrey flew out. ”
Please pray for mom & dad, Josh & Alana, for their 3 little girls, Rebekah (had surgery on her skull to relieve pressure from brain swelling), Elizabeth who remembers everything and the other little one whose name I don’t remember.
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I was so very sorry to read about that on the weekend thread, Kare. I’ll be praying for them all.
Your request this weekend for prayer for first responders was an important one. A tough job I can’t imagine.
My brother-in-law is an EMT, and he said the hardest scene he was ever at was one where a trailer unhooked from the vehicle that was hauling it on a state highway. A man and his two young sons were following in a small car, and their car was struck by the unhitched trailer. I don’t remember if anything was on the trailer or not, but it hit with such force that the driver of the car and one of his children were killed on impact.
The hardest thing about that particular accident for my BIL was that one of his fellow EMTs was the mother and grandmother of the victims who lost their lives. When the call came in, they didn’t know who was involved in the accident, but when they got to the scene and one of them figured out who the dead were, at least one of the responders tried to keep their colleague from that part of the accident scene.
Didn’t work. She said, “That looks like my son’s car over there…” and they couldn’t keep her back.
Heart-wrenching. 😦 Must be every responder’s nightmare, that possibility of coming to a scene involving a loved one.
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How horrid. So sad and every parent’s worst nightmare.
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And prayer for the truck driver.
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Thanks, Mumsee, I was reminded of that this morning, too. How horrible even if not your fault.
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Heartbreaking, for sure.
My brother was a volunteer fireman and once responded to a fire at my sister’s home. It was one that was easily put out and not too damaging, thankfully.
Prayers for all.
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Art is out of surgery. All is well at this point, stone taken care of. He will have a stent remaining in, but maybe no catheter (depends on how things go in recovery).
Thank you for praying. I have been praying for 6 Arrows husband as I prayed for Art. Hope things are going equally well there, too.
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The surgeon just finished, and called me, reporting that everything went well. Hubby didn’t need a breathing tube, as he was only partially sedated, I think the doctor said, so that will make his recovery a little easier. The hernia was larger than he expected, though, and the first three to five days will be pretty tough, but his overall recovery will be easier if we stay on top of the pain with the narcotics and ibuprofen in the first 48-72 hours.
A nurse will be calling in about an hour and a half or two when he can be picked up. I’m going to take a nap now, as I didn’t get much more than 3 good hours of sleep last night.
Thank you all for your prayers.
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So, glad to hear! Prayers for a fast recovery and no infection.
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We are so happy to not be dealing with a catheter.
I have just returned home from the pharmacy and I just want to crash into bed. Knowing I don’t have to help with the catheter bag makes me feel free to get some rest now. What a relief!!!
So glad to hear 6 Arrows husband had a successful surgery. I imagine someone is making a run to the pharmacy near them unless they could get meds at the hospital.
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I’m so glad, too, that you don’t have to deal with a catheter, Janice.
Yep, we had to make a run to the pharmacy. The hospital couldn’t call in a prescription anywhere — we had to personally hand the prescription to the pharmacy people because of the narcotics. Between it being a narcotic pain killer prescription, and the fact that it was a workman’s comp claim, I was asked a ton of question, and several phone calls had to be made before the prescription could be filled. We waited over an hour, when they had originally told me it would be 20-30 minutes, but after that time was up, they called me and told me I needed to provide more information and it would be another 15-20 minute wait.
Hubby and I sat in the car most of that time and talked about different household and family matters for the next few weeks, though, so that was good productive time.
But why does it take surgery to have some alone talk-time, LOL?! 😉
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And a big praise that a car accident was averted on our way home. We live on a dead-end road, and a county highway runs by it.
As we were approaching our road, a school bus two vehicles ahead of me slowed to a stop on the highway and let our neighbor’s daughter off the bus. She crossed in front of the bus to our road on the left, then the bus went ahead, as did the vehicle in front of me.
I was about to turn left onto our road, but I wanted to wait for the girl to get more to the side of the road for her walk home. (She was at first in the middle of our road after crossing the highway.)
When I saw she got to the left side of our road, then I was about to turn left, but the driver who was stopped behind me was impatient, and in my mirror, I saw the driver abruptly swing into the oncoming traffic lane and try to pass me on the left just as I was about to turn left.
My left-turn signal had been on the whole time I was sitting there waiting to turn.
We would have been hit a good one if I had not glanced in my side mirror right then. The driver whizzed past us, and all I could think was, thank God we didn’t get hit. My husband had been grimacing with every bump in the road on the way home from the hospital — a half-hour drive — and a collision… well, I don’t even want to think about that.
Praise God that didn’t happen.
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6 Arrows, I always hate when drivers go around impatiently, with no clue of the reason for the delay! In Chicago with one home I lived in, I had to make a right turn at a place where two or three small streets intersected at an angle. Problem is, the road I turned onto had a crosswalk across it, a crosswalk that was actively used, but because of the angle of the streets the second person waiting to turn could not see around the first car to see the crosswalk. So many times I had cars impatiently whiz around me when I was in fact waiting for a pedestrian, and I thought that if I lived or had business on that corner, I wouldn’t dare use that crosswalk. I was afraid that someday I’d see a pedestrian killed by someone who was too impatient.
Another time I was turning left, and the vehicle in front of me was a large motor home that blocked all view of the intersection. When it turned left, the traffic light was yellow, but I had no idea how long it had been yellow, and I wasn’t going to turn left from a complete stop that didn’t even have my nose in the intersection when it might be–and probably was–the tail end of a yellow light. (It was a major intersection and could have been dangerous, as well as being potentially illegal, if I started just as the light turned red.) Maybe that was the right decision and maybe it wasn’t, but I chose to err on the side of safety on that one. Well, the driver behind me thought it was such a bad decision that he blared the horn and swung out and raced around me to turn left, which of course meant he actively ran a red light.
Sometimes it just doesn’t occur to people that a car can be a deadly weapon if used carelessly.
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I know a lady who saw a deer running through a field. Knowing she would hit it if she kept going the speed she was, she slowed down. The impatient guy driving behind her whipped around her and, shortly thereafter, collided with the deer. Impatience can be very bad when driving.
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Is it bad that I feel sorry for the deer, but not the impatient driver (as long as he wasn’t seriously hurt)?
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Hubby is being a very good patient. 🙂
Thanks, all. Your prayers mean a lot to me.
God is good.
Blessings to you all.
End of choppy sentences. 😉
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I hope that means he’s asleep . . . 🙂
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