Visit With One Of My Daughters
Such a great visit with my daughter this past week.
My daughter and I had some quality time together this past week. She spontaneously decided that she wanted to come to visit for several days, and I was ecstatic!
After all, family is an essential enjoyment to me. She is a gem.
When she was around 9 yrs. old, she was riding a horse with her Dad and twin sister, when all of a sudden, the horse took off fast back toward home and my daughter held on for dear life, but fell off and was trampled by the horse. She was rushed to the hospital unconsciously. When she got there, they airlifted her to a trauma hospital.
The doctors said that it was a good thing that she had a helmet on. Even though it was only hanging together by thin fibers after the accident, it had saved her life.
She was in a coma when I arrived and remained there for two weeks. Some of those days were a medically induced coma to allow her brain to heal. She had sheared her corpus callosum, which is a band of nerves that join the left and right hemispheres.
It was touch and go for many days, and we weren't sure that she would make it. Her sisters were devastated, and her Dad and I (we were divorced) were torn apart. It was a challenging time for our family.
As the weeks and months went by, she slowly recovered from a broken leg, a traumatic brain injury, and some issues with obsessive compulsiveness. She returned to school four months after the accident, starting with shortened days.
Life continued after the horrible accident, and she was making significant progress. She grew into a beautiful young woman, as you can see. She graduated with honors from college and is a kind and cheerful person with a career in early childhood special education intervention. I couldn't be prouder.
Life is never guaranteed to any of us. We must live each day grateful for what we have and learn to be present for our loved ones.
I would love to hear from any of you about your families. What are the most special memories you have? What does family mean to you?
Thanks for stopping by,
Erlene
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What a gracious opportunity and privilege to have an opportunity to be able to visit with your daughter. Time is so short, especially when you thought you might not have had he, but our heavenly father smiled on her and he brought her back, Blessings.
She's is also a super graduate, graduated in the same niche I'm working on and helping underprivileged families which is a passion of mine. So happy you had the pleasure to spend time with her .
Thanks for sharing.
That is a great niche! I would imagine that people seek you out for support about early intervention, which has exploded because of the increased prevalence of Autism Spectrum Disorders, to name one area. Early Childhood programming has increased, and outcomes for kids have improved too.
Thank you for your work in this area. It is so needed and beneficial to the quality of life for parents and children.
Erlene
Hi Erlene!
Thanks for sharing your personal story about your daughter! It is situations like those that help us to put things into perspective and for us to realize what is important in life. Thankful that your daughter survived that horrific accident. Glad that you had a wonderful visit with your daughter!
Family means everything! Wishing you the very best!
Kind regards,
Nichola
Family does mean everything! I am so pleased that we had a few days together.
It seems as though we all are more grateful for the family now more than ever. I think the losses we have endured the past couple of years due to Covid have helped us to appreciate life and living more.
Thanks so much for stopping by,
Erlene
God was always with you Erlene and your family members. yes, Jeffrey was right you and your daughter look very identical.
Well, sharing about my family was a very long story, but with regard to an incidence, there was one I can remember when my youngest was around 3 years old her head was hit on some sharp post on my previous house, it was on her forehead right part when it happened the blood was like a strong spray and my wife was almost insane doesn't know what to do on that moment she was extremely shocked, we were lucky it was around 7 pm and there's a lot of tricycle vehicle roaming around so we paid him for the transportation to the small clinic near to our subdivision. and we were luckier that the doctor was in there, and my daughter had been dressing and applied with antiseptic then bandage to cover the wound on her forehead. then we were relieved and then we went home calmly.
Thank goodness she was alright. I would be insanely upset to see blood spraying from someone. Glad it was easily solved.
Erlene
Family is absolutely everything to me.
Even though at the worst of times, they drive you mad, it is them that get you through all the tough times
It is also important to treasure the happy times
Those memories are the one that lift you up when you're down
An absolute treasure for us all to keep
Thank you so much for sharing your family story with us Erlene
She is a real treasure to you
Thank you, Simone. I know how important family is to you as you have stated before. Thank you for your comments and have a great rest of the weekend!
Erlene
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We believe, Erlene, that "family" is essential to God's plan of salvation.
It is so great you got to visit a few days with your daughter.
Being so far away from our children, we are very grateful for technology that allows us to talk and see them frequently. Not the same as a personal hug but better than it was before the internet.
Archie
I agree. Technology has kept us connected, but you are correct; in-person connections are best! I love being able to facetime with my grandson instead of not seeing him for many months.
Thanks for adding your valuable insights.
Erlene