Update...

Things have been…..how do I say this different lately.

We have been struggling to find our footing for months now. It feels like the hits just keep on coming.

On February 10^th my parents were in a very serious (awful, horrible, scary) car accident. My father suffered a stroke (we found this out later) while driving the car. My mother was the passenger and they hit a telephone pole and then flipped (it’s an estimate because no one saw the accident happen) 6-8 times and landed on the drivers side of the car 100 feet off the road. I was still at work when I got a call from an unknown number and for only reasons that God knows I answered it and it was a young girl who had pulled up on the accident and had gotten my mom out of the car and was there with them while they waited for Mercy Flight for my dad as he was unresponsive. It was gut wrenching and horrible and I felt paralyzed. My mother was taken by ambulance to the same hospital they were Mercy Flighting my father to.

We got there shortly after they arrived and they were both awake and talking. My father by God’s grace had no effects from the stroke and suffered minor cuts and scrapes and 3 broke ribs from the accident. My mother fractured her back in two places and had to have surgery involving rods and all that. My dad was out of the hospital in 3 days and my mom spent almost two weeks in the hospital and then a week in a rehab facility to help her be able to walk and shower etc. She is still healing but walking on her own now driving short distances and starting to move more and more.

My parents are my life line. I see my mom multiple times a week she watches the kids for us and it was huge blow but what was even worse than all that was seeing the pain they were in and everything that went with that. I was in charge of making sure my dad was making it to all his appointments and after going through all the testing and going to his general heath dr, his cardiologist and a neurologist it was determined that my dad’s aphib caused a blood clot (caused by his irregular hearbeat) to move to his brain and dissolve there causing the stroke and then a subsequent seizure which is what caused the accident. This is also the reason that he has no physical or mental aftermath affects from the stroke it self and the MRI shows that the lesions on his brain are already healing. He is on medication now to help any of that from happening again and it is mandatory in our state that he does not drive for one year from the date of accident.

It could have been much worse and we are so thankful that it turned out as good as it did.

When Covid hit it was a big blow because we were only one-month post-accident with both of parents not driving. So, we had to be much more cautious with them because they were high risk with their age and just having had surgery. However, we still had to get them to appointments and get them groceries and all of that. It was a strange time. Now that things have calmed down and my mom has healed much more and can drive a little bit it is better.

I’m so very thankful that just a few short weeks prior to the accident that they moved into their new house that was only 5 mins from us. It made it so much easier to check on them, get them groceries and all those things.

I have a whole other view on Covid and what that was like for our family

But that is a little bit of update as to why I said I would post and then bam we got hit with all of this.