invsblwmn in hospital!

[mimitabby]

hi Dawn, I loved the story about your dog, it is truly amazing, i'm glad you found each other. Your kitty looks pretty content too.
Keep healing, I'm glad you are able to get around a bit!

[margo49]

What a pretty kitty!

[lph]

Heyup Dawn, how are you doing? Hope you're hanging in there ok and that 2008 wil bring some better times...

[Trek420]

Me too! Here's to '08 being a year of recovery for you.

[three]

Invsblwmn, I'm new here and just saw this thread for the first time. I read all of it and see that no recent update has happened. I am hoping that is due to your healing and the holidays - and not anything worrisome.

My thoughts are with you. And my heart breaks with those photos and details about Brodie. She looks like such a beautiful sweetheart. I think dogs are amazingly wonderful teachers - they show us each day what unconditional love and acceptance looks like...how to live in the moment and so forth. I am incredibly thankful that Brodie came into you and your partner's lives - each day was a blessing, no doubt.

When I was little, my mom was riding home and was hit by a motorcyclist. It was a severe hit and run (multiple internal injuries in addition to broken bones, etc). Anyway...

She healed physically - in time. But, she never rode a bike again - and she is noticeably concerned about my safety when I tell her about my bike ventures. Now, everyone gets impacted in different ways and I acknowledge that it's fully possible your accident will have no psychological impact on you (like it did her). But, I hope that if you detect the slightest mental trauma related to being hit - that you attend to it. I only express this concern out of watching what happened to my mom.

I have you in my thoughts and prayers...

I pray for your physical pain to lessen each day, for your body to utilize the extent of its amazing abilities and heal soon.

I pray you experience no mental trauma from the accident and that as soon as you're able, the bike can be part of your healing process - that each mile on it will help you to increase your distance from all the pain you're dealing with these days.

I pray for you to have a wealth of amazing moments with Brodie - simple moments of grace that will stick in your memory and carry you through future times when you're missing her. You have been such a gift to her - you saved her life.

I send you many well-wishes, and my Solomon sends a wiggly dog tail your way. I hope you're well.

[nancy sv]

I'm another one who just came upon this thread - hoping you are all right. I can't even begin to fathom what you are going through.

Life is scary in that way. One moment everything is going peachy and the next we are lying on the ground all broken up. Here in Boise a few months ago a woman was stopped on her bike in the bike lane waiting for a red light when someone in a Hummer came up behind her and killed her. No matter how safely we are riding, there will always be those moments.

And yet - those things can happen at home too. One day a bunch of ambulances went screaming past our house and stopped a few houses down the road. A little while later they left quietly. I found out the next day that their 6-year-old boy slipped in the bathtub, hit his head, and died.

I guess the moral of the story is that we need to get out and live life - and that's exactly what you did and are doing. Good for you! I truly hope that you can get back on your bike at some point, but if not - then simply live life to the fullest in some other manner.

I pray that this year will be a good one for you and that you get up and moving quickly!!

Nancy

[mimitabby]

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