OMG guys, just OMG! I've been through heck and hopefully, It's done now...

I am almost embarrassed to admit that for the first time in my adult life, I'm fearful of what can happen next. And I'm mad at me for it too because I know better but...

Back on March 20th, I had to rush hubby to the ER with severe abdominal pain. The cat scan showed that his small intestine had twisted and folded over itself and it was grayish, indicating dead tissue.. He was rushed into major emergency surgery as several doctors were telling me if the grayish part didn't pink up after they untwisted it, they would have to do a bisection, removing the dead intestine and reconnecting the alive parts.

After surgery, the surgeon told me that it pinked right up and I got him to the hospital in time, that was the good news. The maybe not good news was that they found two tumors/lumps/masses on his intestines and a band had grown between them that had twisted around and basically tied the intestine off. But they had to do a biopsy on the tumors/lumps/masses to determine if they were cancerous.

Thank God they were not! Apparently at some point he had an infection or inflammation that caused scar tissue (the tumors/lumps/masses) and it was a band of scar tissue as well that caused the whole thing. Whew! I took him to get all of his staples out a week ago today but he can't go back to work until the 21st of April with restrictions, then they'll be lifted on May 5th...hopefully...

The following week, March 25th, I had an accident at work. I sacrificed myself to save a little boy whose mother wasn't watching him. Well, I did, lol! It sounds more dramatic than what it is, but hey, I guess that's just the writer in me popping out, haha! Anyway, I smashed my left hand and got it stuck so that the little boy wouldn't get smashed. I ended up breaking both the proximal phalanges and metacarpus' of the pinky and ring finger. That's four breaks. They had to cut my wedding rings off first thing.

And if that wasn't bad enough, the next accident involved my daughter and three grand kiddies. This past Saturday, they had visited and were on their way home driving on the expressway. My daughter called and told hubby that she thought she was just in a tornado as a vortex full of debris pushed her over a lane and a half, half off of the freeway and now it was starting to hail golf ball size hail. Hubby told her to find an overpass and get under it until the hail stopped. She did and stayed on the phone with hubby until it stopped. She did and they hung up.

Less than three minutes later, she called back completely freaking out. Hubby put the phone on speaker so I could hear too. She said she was just in an accident, she was screaming and crying and so were the grandkids. While we were asking if she was okay, we heard a kabaam! She was hit again. She then went into a panic attack and hubby was telling her she had to calm down and breathe slowly so she could talk to him and check the kids to see if they were okay. Another loud Kabaam! She was hit again and then she was completely silent. We could only hear the kids screaming and crying!

Bill went ballistic calling her name. The last hit had knocked the phone from her hand. When she got back on, he asked if she was okay and she said no. He told her to hang up with him and call 911 but a lady was on the phone next saying she was calling 911. We all hung up. Then the vortex was at our house downing pines in the back and dropping 2 inches of hail. We lost power but no damage to the house or the vehicles.

First of all, before I continue, the three grand kids are okay, they just have wicked red marks from the seat belts. I know some of you don't believe, but I attribute that to God and perhaps guardian angels. Anyway what happened was this...

After she started driving again, she got to a spot on the freeway where the hail was larger and beginning to melt which made the pavement sheer ice. She started spinning and ended up facing the wrong way on the freeway just in time to see a pickup truck about to hit her head on. It hit her head on but from the middle of the car over to the passenger side. That sent her into a spin again the other way. That's when she called us. Then she got rear ended by another car, and then side swiped by yet another car. I have never been so scared in my entire life hearing all of that! It was horrific! OMG! OMG! Her car is totaled and they had to pry her out with the jaws of life.

Miraculously, she has no broken bones, internal injuries or lacerations! Her face is all swollen on the left side and she has deep muscle contusions and her cheek and jaw bone are bruised, but not broken. She has a severe concussion.

Her right knee is swollen and black and blue and again, nothing broken but deep muscular contusions and a bruised knee cap bone. Her whole back and neck, from the base of her skull to the base of her spine is all lumpy with knotted muscles. The doctor said she pulled, sprained and strained all of the her muscles and tendons and they speculate that she tightened/tensed up before the hit causing all of that. But again, no breaks or fractures! OMG! She's out of the hospital now, but she's in severe pain.

Here's some pictures of the damage that storm caused up the road a bit and a video below. I didn't take pictures of ours because I just didn't have it in me with other matters more important to tend to...


Storm Damage






Oh, and we just got power back today, so I'm here now...but I'm frightened something else bad is going to happen any moment. I know that's bad, but I can't help it!


Terra