Taking Things for Granted

 


   During the mandatory 15 minute waiting time after my last vaccine appointment of the morning I got a text from C. Once my patient had left I looked at the text. It was alarming.

   My stepdaughter, Elin, had been in an accident. She was driving on a highway. It was raining very hard and traffic was moving very fast. Elin hit a patch of standing water on the road and started to hydroplane. Her truck crashed into a guardrail and started to spin. A semi was right behind them. She looked over at her six year old son, Hawk, and screamed. Her life flashed before her eyes. She managed to grab the steering wheel of her truck in time to get to the side of the road.

    In shock from what had just happened, she started calling people looking for help.. The only person who answered her call was C. He got her calmed down enough so that she could call her husband. Chet came and picked her and Hawk up. He arranged for AAA to tow the truck to a garage for repair. Fortunately, it was not totaled  

   Even more fortunate was the fact that Elin was only slightly physically injured. Hawk, in his car seat in the back was not injured at all. Both of them were frightened, especially Elin. It was a very close call. If she had not been able to get the car out of the way of the semi that was behind them, the story would have been very different. We thanked God that our daughter and grandson had been spared.

   C sent a group text message to all his children letting them know what had happened. At the end he encouraged them to send Elin a "I love you" message because they could so easily lost her that day.

   Elin wrote a Facebook post about the accident last night. At the end she said she was grateful that she and Hawk were still alive. She wrote that she'd never been that close to losing her life. Her friends and some of her family commented that they were also grateful. Many expressed their love for her and Hunter. 

   Things happen. Life can be very short. Forgive those who need forgiveness. Show your loved ones that you care about them. Don't take people for granted, because you don't know how long you will have them.


   

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