Miracles and Angels

 Last Wednesday night when George was driving home from a soccer game, I was watching TV while folding laundry when I got this alert on my phone.  

I wasn't exactly sure what to do.

Should I call 911 to try and get information?

Decided against that and tried a couple of times to call George.

When he didn't answer, I tried googling the crash site to see if anything would come up.

Popped right up with this headline -

Fatal Crash on Linden in Caldwell

I got kind of panicky until I looked at the date and noted that this accident was a few months ago. Whew!

I used google earth to figure out the direction he had been coming from and that the stop sign at that intersection was for a cross road. At least the wreck most likely not going to be his fault.

By this time, I was pretty nervous but mercifully he called.

He was in an ambulance being taken to a hospital in Nampa but he was alert and not in a lot of pain.

Such a blessing!

I drove out to the hospital to find that they had already done an MRI and were in the middle of taking x-rays. He had on a neck brace but was conversational and coherent.

I let our children know what was going on.

Johnny, Monica and Isabella came out to the hospital so that John could report to his siblings.

The doctor reported that there were no internal injuries, no broken bones and a probably mild concussion.

And he warned George that he would most likely be super sore for a few days.

That has been true but today, one week later, he seems to be more comfortable and he plans to ref two games on Saturday.

Unfortunately his beautiful Jaguar didn't fare as well.

I asked George at the hospital if it had been totaled and he thought so but said that I would see it tomorrow so that I could make my own judgement.

What do you think?  I don't think one would need to be an expert to  say

TOTALED!

Never before had George had a car that strangers in parking lots would comment.

"That is a beautiful car."

George will miss it.

On a happier note - as we were driving out to the tow truck yard, I mentioned that he might like to keep the Jaguar figure that was on the front of the car.  Unfortunately it was not still on the car or any place around the car that we could see.

Just to see what we might find, we stopped at the crash site and looked around.  Amazingly George found it!  It was in some tall grass on the opposite side of the road from where the car had stopped.

That did make him happy.

The other involved vehicle was a pick up truck.  The driver had run a stop sign while talking on his cell phone.  Another miracle was that George hit him rather than the pickup truck broadsiding George's car.  That might have had a more serious outcome.

Thankful for airbags, seat belts, and sturdy cars.  Notice that the passenger area hardly looks damaged at all.

And I'm thankful for angels and miracles.