Re: RE: RE: OT: Michele

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Michele

I hope your mom's wound heals quickly. Bless her heart, she has had a rough

time.

I hope that both and your hubby will get to feeling better this year!!

and Rob 18 JAS

OT: You are not going to believe this

> >

> >

> >

> > Today, I was off so I took the opportunity to visit my dear friend,

> > , who is staying with her parents about an hour and a half

> > away in

> > Greenwood, Indiana. 's mother has been given a diagnosis

> of

> > terminalthroat cancer. has taken FMLA and gone up to stay

> > with and help her

> > family, and give her sister a break. Not only is 's mother

> > (Shirley)ill, but 's dad has multiple medical problems and

> > is on a

> > walker. Then there is 's 47 year old brother, , who is

> blind,> diabetic, and schizophrenic and very childlike. It is a

> terrible> situation. Shirley has been the rock of the family.

> She says she is

> > ready to meet the Lord whenever he is ready for her, but

> leaving her

> > husband and son behind is just so heartbreaking for her. I

> went

> > up today

> > for a visit. Was there most of the day. Long story short,

> coming

> > home I

> > missed my exit and found myself going down I65 towards

> > Louisville. I got

> > off, thinking I'd go to Veterans Parkway and get gas, and

> > changed my

> > mind on the off ramp. I got in the left lane and was sitting

> > there at

> > the light, stopped, when a drunk driver hit me...in Rob's

> brand new

> > (albeit used) Durango that I had just picked up from him in

> > Indianapolis, as I need to get it LICENSED tomorrow. So here I

> > am with a

> > guy who is begging me not to call police, when I can tell he

> has been

> > drinking. It was a 20 minute act of stalling while

> called the

> > police (from home, after I called him on my cell), so the guy would

> > think the police just 'happened' up on our accident. It was

> > heartbreaking to see him being cuffed but I knew I did the

> right thing

> > getting him off the street. I just kept thinking of two of Rob's

> > classmates, one drunk who drove her car and killed the other.

> > This got

> > me so upset and sad, and crying while I watched the scene

> unfold

> > in my

> > rear view mirror. I'm not hurt physically, the car isn't bad,

> > just a few

> > scratches, but we had to get this guy off the street. Of

> course,

> > he told

> > me his life story about why I shouldn't turn him in. I told

> him

> > I had

> > seen many tragedies related to alcohol and that it was not

> fair

> > for him

> > to be taking chances with others lives! Nervy, aren't I. So, I just

> > played along with him, listened to his story, taking FOREVER

> to write

> > his name and address, and making him get out his insurance

> card,

> > licensewhile stalling for time till the police arrived. At

> least

> > he was a

> > pleasant, talky drunk...poor fellow. He is sitting in jail as

> I

> > type. He

> > is God's child too so please pray for him, his name is .

> > I'm so shook up I doubt I will sleep tonight. It was a pretty

> > harrowingexperience waiting for the police. But thank God he

> hit

> > me, did little

> > damage, and is now off the street where he can't hurt anyone.

> > I'm going to wait to tell Rob about the Durango, he doesn't

> deal well

> > with anger these days...oi

> >

> >

> >