Lorrin's Arm

Lorrin fell out of the car last week when we went to pick Abby up from preschool. It was one of those experiences that I hope to never, NEVER, go through again. She had climbed up into the front seat and I argued with her to move back to the back. She wouldn't listen and moved all the way to the door so I couldn't grab her. Well as Abby went to open the door to get in Lorrin started to fall...head first! I reached out to grab her and ended up taking my foot off the brake...the van began to roll and I looked up to see another van in front of me, in panic mode I tried to slam on the brake but instead hit the gas...oh yes! Well luckily I was able to get my foot on the brake quickly, literally inches from the van in front of me. In all the excitement Lorrin fell out of the van. All I could hear was screaming and as I ran around to the side of the van I found her on the ground bleeding and crying. The teachers where screaming all the kindergartners where screaming, my kids where screaming and on top of it all Lorrin was SCREAMING! I picked her up, tried to assess the damage and put her in the car (with her buckle on). She screamed the whole way home...the neighborhood heard us coming. I got home to the phone ringing and a policeman telling me they got a call that I had run over my daughter. With no time to process anything, an ambulance and police car where at my home in minutes. Lorrin continued to scream! They attempted to check her out but she was pretty resistant. Finally she yelled "Will you people just let me go lay down!" They let her and told me to watch her arm.

Well it turns out she had a fracture! When I asked her if it was hard to only use one hand she said to me "Nope, see I have this other one!" The whole thing did not slow her down one bit!

I do want you to know I have learned a lot of lessons from this whole thing. Yes, they now where their seatbelts but I have learned that it is the little things in our lives that become our safety harnesses. It is the little things we know we should be doing everyday that help us when the unexpected happens. I also am reminded that God is aware of us. You see when I took Lorrin in the next week for her hard cast her fracture was gone. Yes gone! Do miracles still happen. Of course they do. Sometimes though we need experiences like this to remind us of them! I believe that I had a lot to learn...This lesson was not for Lorrin, it was for me. He healed her quickly so that my eyes could be opened.