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raeanna74 · 06-01-2003, 05:35 PM

I can think of more than once instance that I can picture vividly because of how the scene shocked me. First was watching a car that went off the highway roll side over side and end over end. I was sitting in a stopped car on the opposite side of the highway just off the highway in a parking lot. I was parallel to the final roll of the car. It had bounced off it's wheels and as it flipped/rolled the last time I saw 2 people on the driver's side be flug half way out the windows. Then as it can down it finally landed on the driver's side. I watched those two people get bent backwards in half and the car smashed down on their exposed bodies. It was horrific and whenever I am in an accident or see one it seems I have that scene with arms and hands and torsos flinging about outside the car just before it landed and came to rest.
The second scene was when my mother accidentally stepped on a board with 2 ten penny nails sticking out of it at different angles. She was only in her slippers in her parents basement. When we heard the shreak, my grandmother who was then nearly 70 flew down the steps two at a time. I never saw an elderly person with a hunched back move so quickly or so agilely. My mother was sitting on the floor at the foot of the stairs and my grandmother looked at the board still nailed to my mother's foot. There was no way the 2x4 could be brought up the stairs with my mother so she just pulled the whole thing right off. By the time my grandparents got my mother up the stairs the blood was flowing so freely. They wrapped her foot tightly in kitchen towels and put in in a large plastic bag. Grandpa ran her to the Emergency room only a few blocks away while my grandmother tended to my brother who was quit ill after seeing that scene. He was 7 years younger than me and I was about 16. I remember the strong metallic smell and the thick viscosity of the blood as I wiped up the pool of blood at least 2-3 feet in diameter. It had already started to coagulate and the shock of knowing that it had poured out of my mother I think actually prevented me from getting sick from seeing it.
Another incident was when I sewed through my pointer finger and finger nail on my right hand with an industrial sewing machine. The needle broke off in my hand and I remember just staring at the fingernail chipped and broken in pieces just like glass and the needle sticking out of both sides. I just yanked it out without thinking (thankfully) and the pain was actually delayed as though everything were in slow motion.
The last incident was when my husband was in a serious bicycle accident. He had injured his head and I was able to get to the Emergency room not long after he arrived. He was very combatative and I watched as 4 orderlies were doing all they could to hold him down and still. When he finally calmed he turned to look to me and I was holding his hand. His mouth began to move in an odd way and he winked his eye. I thought he was going to say something to me but then a strained whine began to come out instead. Then that whole side of his face where he'd winked contorted and the nurses hurried me out of the room as he had a siezure and his arms and limbs were jerked up off of the table it seemed like 2 feet the blanket being thrown off almost immediately. It was a frightening thing and my heart ached for him. The consolation now is that he remembers none of it. I do but it makes me appreciate that he is here, alive, in one piece, not paralyzed or nearly a vegetable. Another man admitted to the same ICU as my husband only a day later and with the same injuries only lived for 24 hours. Just as that man's family was mourning their loss my husband was beginning to come out of his coma. Why we were chosen to still be together and they were chosen to loose I will never know. I do know I am grateful he is here and as healthy as he is now.

06-01-2003, 05:35 PM	#59 (permalink)
raeanna74 I'm not a blonde! I'm knot! I'm knot! I'm knot! Location: Upper Michigan	I can think of more than once instance that I can picture vividly because of how the scene shocked me. First was watching a car that went off the highway roll side over side and end over end. I was sitting in a stopped car on the opposite side of the highway just off the highway in a parking lot. I was parallel to the final roll of the car. It had bounced off it's wheels and as it flipped/rolled the last time I saw 2 people on the driver's side be flug half way out the windows. Then as it can down it finally landed on the driver's side. I watched those two people get bent backwards in half and the car smashed down on their exposed bodies. It was horrific and whenever I am in an accident or see one it seems I have that scene with arms and hands and torsos flinging about outside the car just before it landed and came to rest. The second scene was when my mother accidentally stepped on a board with 2 ten penny nails sticking out of it at different angles. She was only in her slippers in her parents basement. When we heard the shreak, my grandmother who was then nearly 70 flew down the steps two at a time. I never saw an elderly person with a hunched back move so quickly or so agilely. My mother was sitting on the floor at the foot of the stairs and my grandmother looked at the board still nailed to my mother's foot. There was no way the 2x4 could be brought up the stairs with my mother so she just pulled the whole thing right off. By the time my grandparents got my mother up the stairs the blood was flowing so freely. They wrapped her foot tightly in kitchen towels and put in in a large plastic bag. Grandpa ran her to the Emergency room only a few blocks away while my grandmother tended to my brother who was quit ill after seeing that scene. He was 7 years younger than me and I was about 16. I remember the strong metallic smell and the thick viscosity of the blood as I wiped up the pool of blood at least 2-3 feet in diameter. It had already started to coagulate and the shock of knowing that it had poured out of my mother I think actually prevented me from getting sick from seeing it. Another incident was when I sewed through my pointer finger and finger nail on my right hand with an industrial sewing machine. The needle broke off in my hand and I remember just staring at the fingernail chipped and broken in pieces just like glass and the needle sticking out of both sides. I just yanked it out without thinking (thankfully) and the pain was actually delayed as though everything were in slow motion. The last incident was when my husband was in a serious bicycle accident. He had injured his head and I was able to get to the Emergency room not long after he arrived. He was very combatative and I watched as 4 orderlies were doing all they could to hold him down and still. When he finally calmed he turned to look to me and I was holding his hand. His mouth began to move in an odd way and he winked his eye. I thought he was going to say something to me but then a strained whine began to come out instead. Then that whole side of his face where he'd winked contorted and the nurses hurried me out of the room as he had a siezure and his arms and limbs were jerked up off of the table it seemed like 2 feet the blanket being thrown off almost immediately. It was a frightening thing and my heart ached for him. The consolation now is that he remembers none of it. I do but it makes me appreciate that he is here, alive, in one piece, not paralyzed or nearly a vegetable. Another man admitted to the same ICU as my husband only a day later and with the same injuries only lived for 24 hours. Just as that man's family was mourning their loss my husband was beginning to come out of his coma. Why we were chosen to still be together and they were chosen to loose I will never know. I do know I am grateful he is here and as healthy as he is now. __________________ "Always learn the rules so that you can break them properly." Dalai Lama My Karma just ran over your Dogma.