[tri-wings] I shouldnt drive on December 15
- From: Midwifehelp@xxxxxxx
- To: tri-wings@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:39:49 EST
Thank you all for the warm wishes and thoughts today. I really appreciate
how loving and supportive you all are. As many of you dont actually know me,
though some of you do, this post may seem strange, but I thought a bit of humor
today would be nice.
Last year, after we left the hospital after Emma died, I was driving down
the road, around midnight in the middle of one of the worst areas of Miami, to
go back to the hotel. As you can imagine I was numb, in shock and I cannot
believe I was actually driving a car. As I am going along all of a sudden there
is this tire in the middle of the road. I swerved and tried to avoid it, but
drove right over it. It got stuck under my car and stopped my car with this
terrible scraping, sparks flying spectacle. My husband was somewhere behind
me, as we both had driven that day, and wasnt answering his phone. So there I
am, it is freezing, for Florida, I am hysterical over the loss of my daughter,
and I am stranded in gangland. Finally my husband comes behind me and you
can imagine the swear words flying out of his mouth. We are laying there,
trying to drag this tire out from under my car, thinking at any moment we will
surely be mugged, shot or who knows what. We had to jack up the car to get it
out. It was surreal, we were just thinking how could this possibly happen
after
we just literally lost our daughter?? So, we dragged it out and went on back
to the hotel. Now it is a funny story, and even then, we sat there, in
between tears and swear words about who would possibly just leave a tire
laying
out here in the middle of the road, we laughed. I remember thinking that I
must
be nuts to be laughing, how could I possibly laugh at a time like this. It
gave me a bit of a reality check too, knowing that life, good and bad, does go
on and I have to go with it.
Now, today, one year later, and I have never been in an accident before, I
proceed to pull out of a parking space and smash into a black Jaguar. Of
course the guy was a jerk about it, and of course he was a rich old guy with a
very young girlfriend who was equally rude, and of course I am in our big huge
Ford Expedition, and it really smashes the he** out of his little tiny luxury
mobile. It just figures doesnt it!! It just goes to show you how ironic life
is. Never been in an accident before, but on my daughters day of passing I am,
and again, on the first anniversary. Crazy, I will never drive on Dec 15th
again. That is my new rule.
Dont really have a moral or anything here, just wanted to share my crazy
life with people who would appreciate it.
Bess
Mom to Ben, Jake, Zack, Chloe and Emma Grace 12-2-3 to 12-15-3
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