Vacation

We went on a family camping vacation to Colorado at the end of July. On our drive home, shortly after we left the mountains, a tire popped on our Excursion, and we lost control and rolled the truck and camper. The kids were not injured, Jeff had a sore back and a few bumps, and I was taken to the ER for x-rays and scans for neck pain that turned out to just be whiplash, neck/back strain, and lots of bruises, scratches, and bumps. No broken bones or stitches! I'm still waiting for one last big lump on my head to heal, but otherwise I'm feeling much better physically. My neck and back get tired and aches by the end of the day but I'm feeling SO much better than I did at first. At first I could hardly move.

We praise God for protecting us! The last thing I remember before we rolled was praying "God help us".

Lots of kind strangers stopped to help when we wrecked. A nice young man crawled into the wrecked Excursion to unfasten Ellie & pull her out. Jeff crawled out remarkably fast and then pulled David and Abby out. Abby had unhooked her own seatbelt, but then she got tangled a little and wasn't sure which way to crawl to get out. My husband's brother Ryan was the one who helped me get out of the wreckage. A woman whose face I never got to see (my glasses were lost) gave me water, and another man with EMS training helped me while we waited for an ambulance, to make sure I didn't aggravate any potential injuries (since I had neck pain, the fear was spinal injury.)

We are very lucky David didn't get more injured, because only 5-10 minutes before the crash, I turned back and saw that he had slipped his car seatbelt straps off. I corrected him and he put them back on. I was looking at 5 PT harness carseats for big kids on Amazon on my phone when we wrecked. Seriously!

Jeff showed the ER staff a few photos that family texted to us, and they said "This is NOT how a crash like this usually ends. Someone was watching out for your family."

Here are a few photos of the crash-



















Photos from vacation BEFORE the crash-












Abby started 2nd grade last week:



David started his second year at Early Childhood Preschool at Greenwich. Ellie is starting preschool at our church in September.

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