Showing posts with label wreck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wreck. Show all posts

Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Praise the Lord!

Last night Piper and I were in a car accident. We were going to pick up a baby book at Hallmark and were hit pretty hard. I was in the turning lane about to turn onto Lower Ridge Rd and a lady was pulling out of there and I'm assuming she was going to pull straight into the turning lane except she didn't look to see if anyone was in the turning lane and she hit us really hard, my car spun around. I don't know if I've ever been so scared. I saw it about to happen the second before it happened and I left off of my brake so she wouldn't hit mine or Piper's door and she barely missed Piper's door. We were spun around into traffic and there was a 3 car pile up not far behind us. I was sooo scared. I jumped out and pulled Piper out. She was horrified. It was sooo loud and jolting. The fireman wanted us to both go to the ER to get checked out. The doc said he thought she was fine and after x-raying me said I had whiplash.
The lady that hit us was unbelievable. She came up and gave me her business card (she's some sort of pastor) and asked if the cops needed to come. I couldn't believe it. I could barely stand up b/c I was shaking so badly and so worried about Piper. Not to mention, my car was pretty messed up. She never said another word to me, never asked about sweet Piper. I was so disappointed. My prayer for her is that God will give her compassion for others, or at least that she'll not ever hand out another business card claiming to be a pastor when she shows no display of love or compassion.
I can't even begin to describe how grateful I am this morning that we're okay. Things could have easily gone the other way. As Cam and I were leaving our hospital room in the ER we saw two men wheeling away someone who wasn't quite so fortunate. Earlier that night we had seen about 30 people waiting at the ER and we knew they were all family, I'm assuming they were the ones to receive the bad news about their loved one. My thoughts and prayers are with them.