This Christmas I do not want to take God's blessing for granted. This may sound like it should have been a Thanksgiving post, but tonight I am very reflective. There are a couple reasons for this. The first is that we found out tonight that a boy in Nicky's class was in a car accident with his mother this morning. There were two cars involved, even though the boys mom was not an active member of church her sister and family were and she had been attending church with them. The same church as the man who was in the other car. It's not been determined who was at fault but while the boy is in the hospital in Indianapolis tonight having gone through surgery for a broken leg, arm, and collar bone his mother was pronounced dead at the scene.
I know, by now it's sounding like a hoax right? Like a bad email you get to pass on to others so you don't waste your life. I wish I could say that's what this is. This is real life. I guess since we're in a small community it's hard not to know the people involved in accidents. Nicky knows the boy. They are in some classes together and he's been very nice to her this year, even helping her through an asthma attack once (he too suffers with asthma so he helped calm her through it and stayed with her until he knew she was better.) I feel so bad for this boy. He's from a broken home and when you are suffering as he will be for some time recuperating from his wounds, you want your mom. You need someone there to love you and nurture you through the pain and for this Christmas, he will be physically and emotionally in more pain then he will hopefully ever have to endure in his life again.
Just this past Sunday Nicky and I picked out a card for a little girl at church. She's in the 5th grade and her mom just died. I believe that she had been ill for a while. We haven't seen the girl back at church since she passed away. Again, so young to be without a mom. As a girl, she will miss her mom on all her special occasions in life. I understand that we can't all live forever, but it's so sad that kids have to be cheated out of knowing their parents. It breaks my heart for these children.
This Christmas, I don't want to forget these kids and I hope that you will take a long look at your family too and remember those who aren't as lucky as us to have all their loved ones with them this year.
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There are several volunteer paramedics/firemen in our neighborhood. Each time I hear them throwing gravel as they speed off, I wonder if someeon I know is in need of help.
It does break your heart when you hear about situations like that.
Nicky has had to deal with a lot of death lately. I hope this trend ends.
As Golden said, my heart breaks for the people involved.
I work with a lot of kids that don't have moms. It's always sad. Many of them have been abandoned. It's torture on some of them to know that their parents are alive, they just don't want them. Hopefully this boy can take a little comfort in the fact that he did have a caring mom. It doesn't make things fair. He has a long road ahead of him in griefing. I hope someone in his family can step up.
This is a hard time for Nicky. I go to the hospital all the time to pick up specimens now. I go in back with the surgeons and I always see small infants going or coming from surgery.
Yesterday, I saw a baby girl about a year old being carried in a surgical bed/crib, hooked up to the IV in the hospital gown and I thought of Nibbles. I've seen little kids screaming to yank the IV out of their arms as they wake up after surgery. I am so thankful for everyday that we have together.
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