Post by kimnz on Feb 16, 2005 13:47:24 GMT -5
Hi Rich and everyone else on the site,
just wanted you to know Rich that you never gave me the impression that you were having to "make a decision" with your child. I think most of us were probably referring to what the Drs say or have said. I know for me we were told "you have decisions to make" when in fact there was no decision to make.
I also do not go to Church but I still am a Christian and have a strong faith in God and Jesus. We found out VERY early that Jordan has Down syndrome, I was still in hospital in the first trimester with illness.
My friend sent me an encouraging card. For me in psalm 139 is says that "God formed every part of me". When Jordan grows up and can read he will discover that it DOESN'T say "God formed every part of me....except if you have an extra chromosome" or "God made a mistake on this one, you were supposed to only get 46".
Our little boy is loved and cherished. During the weekend just passed my husband and two of my children were in our van enjoying a special day at the beach. Someone came over the centre line and head straight to David (my husband) for a full on head on collision. The other driver was speeding on the open road. If David at the last (and I meant last split of a second) was not able to turn the van at the fraction that he did....my family would not have been here today and I would have buried them yesterday. As it was the driver ploughed into the side of our van splitting it along the side, spinning it rolling it. Our van was a write off. The driver of the other vehicle had skid marks on our side of the road for approx. 50 metres. It was a combined speed of over 180 kms (my husband David sticking to the speed limit I might add).
Our family (I was at home) walked out of this accident with only bruising (Samantha's friend was knocked out but still unscathed). The people who came to attend could not believe that they came out of this. I know for a fact God holds us all in the palm of his hand and our times are His times. That goes for my son Jordan, he is here because God wants him to be here and was born to us because that was part of the eternal plan.
.....As a follow on from the accident. The other driver apparently was on drugs, he was driving a car called a ford thunberbird (obviously to protect himself at times like this) that was not registered or warranted, had no number plates no front or back windows and no lights.
In New Zealand here this man will probably get off with a fine (which he will probably get to pay back at about $10 a week) and possibly loss of licence and may be not even that. I very much doubt that we will even get our own costs covered.
If David had not turned in that split second it would have been a full on head on collision, pushing David and Jordan back into the back seat. I know it is not worth thinking about. But having a brush with death this close....you just can't help think of what could have been.
Jordan goes to hospital for a big operation in about 2 weeks time, we now do not have a van to take him all the way to Auckland in nor a van to take him to Auckland for a special weekend that was planned for about a weeks time. We also had to go into a big credit card expense just to get our van ready for the trip...that's also how come David had taken our children to the beach, our van was fixed up well.
Despite what this accident has done and the trauma caused, God is faithful. He will see to our needs....there will be a road in this wilderness. I just KNOW that things will work out.
Kim NZ Mum to Jordan aged six and half who is going into Starship children's hospital for full removal of his rectum and part of his sigmoid colon in about 2 weeks time for Hirschsprungs disease.
just wanted you to know Rich that you never gave me the impression that you were having to "make a decision" with your child. I think most of us were probably referring to what the Drs say or have said. I know for me we were told "you have decisions to make" when in fact there was no decision to make.
I also do not go to Church but I still am a Christian and have a strong faith in God and Jesus. We found out VERY early that Jordan has Down syndrome, I was still in hospital in the first trimester with illness.
My friend sent me an encouraging card. For me in psalm 139 is says that "God formed every part of me". When Jordan grows up and can read he will discover that it DOESN'T say "God formed every part of me....except if you have an extra chromosome" or "God made a mistake on this one, you were supposed to only get 46".
Our little boy is loved and cherished. During the weekend just passed my husband and two of my children were in our van enjoying a special day at the beach. Someone came over the centre line and head straight to David (my husband) for a full on head on collision. The other driver was speeding on the open road. If David at the last (and I meant last split of a second) was not able to turn the van at the fraction that he did....my family would not have been here today and I would have buried them yesterday. As it was the driver ploughed into the side of our van splitting it along the side, spinning it rolling it. Our van was a write off. The driver of the other vehicle had skid marks on our side of the road for approx. 50 metres. It was a combined speed of over 180 kms (my husband David sticking to the speed limit I might add).
Our family (I was at home) walked out of this accident with only bruising (Samantha's friend was knocked out but still unscathed). The people who came to attend could not believe that they came out of this. I know for a fact God holds us all in the palm of his hand and our times are His times. That goes for my son Jordan, he is here because God wants him to be here and was born to us because that was part of the eternal plan.
.....As a follow on from the accident. The other driver apparently was on drugs, he was driving a car called a ford thunberbird (obviously to protect himself at times like this) that was not registered or warranted, had no number plates no front or back windows and no lights.
In New Zealand here this man will probably get off with a fine (which he will probably get to pay back at about $10 a week) and possibly loss of licence and may be not even that. I very much doubt that we will even get our own costs covered.
If David had not turned in that split second it would have been a full on head on collision, pushing David and Jordan back into the back seat. I know it is not worth thinking about. But having a brush with death this close....you just can't help think of what could have been.
Jordan goes to hospital for a big operation in about 2 weeks time, we now do not have a van to take him all the way to Auckland in nor a van to take him to Auckland for a special weekend that was planned for about a weeks time. We also had to go into a big credit card expense just to get our van ready for the trip...that's also how come David had taken our children to the beach, our van was fixed up well.
Despite what this accident has done and the trauma caused, God is faithful. He will see to our needs....there will be a road in this wilderness. I just KNOW that things will work out.
Kim NZ Mum to Jordan aged six and half who is going into Starship children's hospital for full removal of his rectum and part of his sigmoid colon in about 2 weeks time for Hirschsprungs disease.
