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He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Isaiah 53:3 He understands!
I pray God will comfort your wife and yourself during your time of grief. So sorry for your loss and your pain.
Prayers up for you my friend.
Thank you to everyone, this has been really tough on my wife and her mother. Thank you again DawgNation!!!
Be there for support and try to bring a smile on down days. It works wonders. Trust me on this.
I'm sorry for your loss. You'll be in my family's prayers.
I had posted my prayers for you and your wife’s family earlier on this thread and had seen this again yesterday thinking how fortunate I am despite life’s ups and downs.
This is what is left of the Mini Cooper that rear-ended my wife this morning on the Richmond downtown toll-road. A reminder that we need perspective and balance 24/7/365.
In 2014 I was told that I had a 30% chance of living because of the cancer that was ravaging my body. I whooped its a**. There was no way that I was going to leave my son and daughter without their daddy. I look at life much differently now. Keep things in perspective....show compassion...be that friend to to others. Tomorrow isn't promised. I have prayed for healing for your family. Hang in there.
Dang man, tough news. hope you all find strength and peace. prayers up!
I'm so very sorry for your entire family's loss. I am now praying prayers of comfort & healing for all of you, as well as your dearly departed father in law. May each and everyone of you all feel our Almighty, loving, & merciful God's presence during this difficult time. Although this post of yours is older, I am now only seeing this for the first time. My prayers are still with you & all of your family. I lost my own father in December of 2016, & I can only imagine how much that it hurts. But know & remember that our God heals us all, he loves us all, & he saves all of us who seek him first.
@BobcatGrad Is your wife okay? I’m sure she was seriously shaken, but is she gonna be okay?
@Tdub0199 Everybody’s been there. But you got one tougher than most this time around. Best wishes to your family. I will say a prayer for you guys tonight.
Thanks for asking @levander
Betty suffered a concussion and still has significant pain in her neck and shoulders. I am not sure what percentage of the neck pain is from the accident, the UVA loss in the NCAA or me. Ironically the accident was on her way to work after her PT appointment for fibromyalgia. The third person involved that Betty was pushed into jarred her back a bit.
The concussion makes it difficult to read and conduct her practice on the computer. The main concern is this is at least her third major concussion. Her nose was cracked open 40 years ago and she lost consciousness when she was hit by an oar white water rafting. She also dislocated her jaw and had a concussion skiing in 1991. Ironically her ski accident was at Snowmass one month after I hit a tree skiing at the same location , two years before we met in Richmond.
We are very aware that we are still incredibly lucky this accident was not worse. Having grown up in a family funeral home business back in Columbus, I have seen so many families that suffered a sudden death and the grief and pain related to the fact that so many things had been left unsaid or (silly) disputes not put in perspective and taken care of. Having Betty’s 91 year old Mom and our daughter home from UGA gave Easter a special meaning this year.
Hopefully the family of @Tdub0199 is working through this difficult process.
Thank you to Everyone, we're taking it a day at a time.
@BobcatGrad your wife is in my prayers as well.
@BobcatGrad That doesn’t sound like good news, until you get to the very end when you say it is good news. I am glad you guys are still chugging along.
No one’s done any lecturing in this thread until right now. But I figure this is a good time to mention defensive driving courses because somebody might take it more seriously than they usually do. If you call your insurance company in Georgia, you might be able to get a discount for going to a physical classroom to take a course. But I just took this online course a judge let me take to get out of a speeding ticket. I enjoyed it, but I’m the kind of person who really likes teaching himself stuff online. People learn different ways, some people really prefer classroom environments. I’m not one of those people:
https://www.myimprov.com/
If I were smart, I’d go get a referral code for that course before posting a link. But I’m too lazy to do that.
The comedy bit is overblown in the marketing for that course. It’s just like they pepper the course with colorful statements to keep your attention. It’s basically just done by instructors who have more personality than the average instructor.
Taking that course definitely improved my driving. But I actually took the course seriously and didn’t just rush through it as fast as possible to get a certificate. By chapter 4, I figured out if I read the material in a chapter, then went back and skimmed over it mentally getting an outline that I learned a lot more that way.
I really believe if someone had taken a defensive driving course, there’s a notably better chance we wouldn’t be looking at at least one of the car accidents in this thread.
Please don’t take this post as judgement of anyone involved in these accidents. It’s really too late to quibble about that now. I’m trying to talk about the future.
Prayers for you and your family. May God continue to be with you.