Anyway, the topic says: never take things for granted.....I wanted to write about how life can change so so fast...withing a split second...when you really don't expect anything to happen...then it happens...and there fore we should never take any things for granted in our life...our marriage, our relationships, our kids...name it. What happened to me last friday, exactly one week ago, changed almost everyones life around me....I was in an accident with a tarmac roller....I drove it for the first time...was going to help my hubby, Phares, with his job on a midsummer day. So...he showed me how it works and how to stear and such and then he left to do his job with another machine...so, I started driving it and it went okay forward...then I reversed and because there was an edge, I started thinking that now I have to stop this and go back forward...but instead of stopping the machine, I accidentally pulled more speed to it...and edge just came and both me and machine went over the edge...I landed and part of the machine landed on top of me...mostly my face was crashed...it all happened so fast. I just screamed....and then I stopped...when I realised I can move my hands and my feet and I can breath...so, I am still alive...I did not pass out....I WAS ALIVE!! Something just made me calmer then (I know it must have been my guardian angels)...I heard Simon going to get his dad and then Phares came and pulled the machine away from me...I was bleeding from my face and I could not talk much...it was completely swollen...I was in a shock but I was able to walk and then Phares laid me down on the ground and he was so sad, he called 112...it made me sad to see him so sad and to hear Isabella crying so loudly. She had seen me bleeding and was thinking that I am dying...I had to try and shout to her that mummy will be ok, mum is not dying, i will be fixed. Mumbi started crying because Isabella was crying, Simon was in shock I think also but he was helpful with his sisters. I thank God for him.
The ambulance took a while and I started feeling the pain when waiting....I tried to think of good things...all things crossed my mind...how will the kids be now if I have to be operated and stay in hospital for weeks (I thought my chin was completely broken and my teeth)...I thought of my mum, my in-laws in Finland and Kenya...how they would feel if they knew and that if this had gone worse...I thanked God that moment that I can think those thoughts and I don't have any worse injuries. He had saved me, He put his guardian angels to be with me.....Praise Him! If it was someone else, perhaps things did not go so well...who knows? Something just stopped the machine to roll over me completely!....anyways, the Ambulance came and the nurses were friendly....they asked some questions and then they took me and gave me some morfin for the pain that I was having by that time...I told my hubby to take care of the kids and to comfort Isabella because she must be so scared...so he did and then I was off....alone in the ambulance, just with the nurses....
When we entered the emergency room in the hospital, there was like 8 doctors waiting for me there...and all of them were so nice...the whole hospital visit was so smooth...I mean..it was like angels were taking care of me there. They cleaned my face out of blood...then they told that I have a deep cut on my face and it has gone through...I was like what? I didn't know that..I just thought that my tooth and bones in my face were smashed....I didn't have any feeling there, so I had no idea. They took me to x-ray and then back to the emergency room and there I then waited for the results...I prayed that I would not have big injuries....and God responded...doctor came to tell that I have two small fractures on me chinbone (i dunno if it is written that way?) both sides but that they will heal by themselves...no need for operation...just stiching and then I can go home...I was like, WHAT? for real!?...I am telling you people....I was saved from that accident by higher power, by our Almighty God! :) I was so happy to tell my hubby to come and get me from the hospital (I was there from like 9.30am until 16pm)...I got painkillers and antibiotics and they stiched me and told that the swelling will go away after one-two weeks and hopefully the scar won't be so big in my face and that I will have bruses around my face but they will disappear with time...the only thing that I did not like about was the fact that I cannot eat solid food for 4 weeks ;)...I can only eat soups...hehe :) Well...gotta think something good about that also....time for the soupdiet then...hopefully I will be able to reduce in weight also during this healing process! :D
This week has been tough....pain at night and going to see the doctor...on tuesday (25.6.), on our 9th anniversary day, I went to see the doctor for checkup and what do we find out...my biting is incorrect so the bone is not healing correctly...so she had to put some hooks in my teeth and put rubberbands around the hooks to keep my mouth "shut" as in together....so it meant I can only take liquids with a straw for a week and I can not speak much since I can not open my mouth so much.....I was like, this cannot happen ;)....what a nice anniversary day ;) hehe....but I just had to take it for the sake of being better again.
We have been really talking alot about this accident now with our small family....I guess that is one way of processing the trauma that it gave to my husband and to my children...and to me....but it has drawn us closer also as a family and I am happy about that. I don't know what I would do if I lost my family. Dear Lord will always protect us, Amen!
So, today I went to see the doctor again and atleast they took away the rubber bands so now I can open my mouth a little bit more and maybe even eat soup again with a spoon...woohooo...:) Next check up is next week. Let's see how the healing has gone then. :)
What I learned from this accident was that I don't want to take anything for granted...not my relationships, work, school, anything....I want to give the responsibility to our God Almighty to take control over everything that I do or don't do in this life. In Him I trust! Amen.
I will post some pictures when I get them here....
Here some pictures:
This is the machine I was driving and fell with....
I ended up under the machine, but not my legs...the upper part of the backthing is the one
that hit my face and the sharp corner cut through under the lower lip....scary moments...
This is how I looked like right after I had come home from the hospital....
This is how I looked like one week after the accident....
