On April tenth, three of my best friends were in a terrible accident. Their names are Laura, Trey, and Katie.
We had all gotten together that night at my house to watch the season premiere of The Office. They all rode together in Laura's truck, a little Ford Ranger. Trey was driving them home. There is a raised railroad crossing less than a mile from my house. They weren't speeding, but Trey wasn't used to the way Laura's truck handles. He lost control after crossing the tracks, and they crashed about twenty feet from the road into a creek.
Trey and Laura were wearing seatbelts, but Katie, who was sitting in the middle, was not. Trey got the best of it, with only a few cuts on his arms and some burns on his face from the air bag. Laura was a little worse, with a sprained knee and wrist, a broken finger, and a bruised sternum and forehead. Katie, however, was badly injured. She fractured her right humerus, shattered her left arm just above the elbow, broke a rib, bruised a lung, needed ten stitches below her bottom lip, scratched up the rest of her face fairly badly, and had various other cuts and bruises.
Laura called me as soon as she got out of the truck, and so I was there immediately following the accident. Seeing Katie covered in blood and laying beside that truck in the mud was the scariest thing I've ever seen. But somehow, all of us pulled together and really helped each other out. I'm especially proud of Laura and Trey, who didn't stop to think about themselves for a second and focused completely on helping Katie. They were both very brave and responsible.
Katie is in the hospital now, awaiting surgery on Monday. We've all gone to visit her several times, and she is doing well. Still, we would all really appreciate prayer, as it will be a long and painful process of rehabilitation for her. Please keep her in your prayers. Thank you.
Three Good Friends in an Accident
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Three Good Friends in an Accident
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"Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest." -Matthew 11:28
"Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world out there that lives outside ourselves and our dreams." --Edward Elric, Fullmetal Alchemist
“To put alcohol in the human is like putting sand in the bearing of an engine." --Thomas Edison
[color="RoyalBlue"][font="Trebuchet MS"]The simplest way that I can understand therapy is that we're born a certain way, we're taught to be something different, and we spend our whole lives trying to unravel it and ultimately align ourselves with who we really are. Life, experiences, traumas -- whatever -- they all add up to make you some altered version of what you are. So there's this battle that goes on between what you are and what you become, and it's been very important for me to unravel what I was taught to be or what I became. and to draw a direct parallel to music -- the closer I get back to being who I really am, the stronger the music gets..." --Billy Corgan (Smashing Pumpkins frontman)[/font][/color]
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Fionn Fael - Posts: 197
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Praise God that all your friends survived that scary crash!! It sounds crazy! But he really protected them.
I'll definately pray for swift healing!
God bless!
-Kitchan
I'll definately pray for swift healing!
God bless!
-Kitchan
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Yikes. I'll be praying. Kitchan is right. The Lord was definitely looking out for your friends.
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K. Ayato - Posts: 3881
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Traffic accidents are nasty, especially when one didn't wear seatbelt. I almost got a broken neck last time I got into an accident in the parking lot because I didn't wear seatbelt, and it was only 20km/h!
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SnEptUne - Posts: 247
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I'm praying too. Any word on the surgery?
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Thanks so much, guys. Katie is out of the hospital now. She's back at home and doing great, but she won't be able to come back to school for the rest of the year because of her arms' limited use. The surgery was a success, though. There was only a 15% chance that she wouldn't have to wear a cast. Not only did she not end up having to wear one, but she doesn't even need a sling or a brace.
God really blessed all of my friends in this accident, especially Katie throughout her ordeal. Thank you very much for the prayers!
God really blessed all of my friends in this accident, especially Katie throughout her ordeal. Thank you very much for the prayers!
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