On A Happier Note...

Ok, so the Rangers just lost game 2 of the world series. I'd like to say that its great that we made it to the world series, but we just lost two in a row and I can't bring myself to be that big of a person right now.

On the lighter side of things, something amazing happened to me today. To tell the story right, I have to take you back to May of this year. It was Memorial Day and I was on my way to work. Just before 7am, I was about to round the last curve of the Weatherford traffic circle when two motorcycles in the lane in front of me ran into each other. They both fell off their bikes, one sliding into the grass, and the other bouncing like a rubber ball all over the road in front of me. I had to swerve quickly to avoid running over him, and to top it all off, I had to watch his head bust open as he was not wearing a helmet.

So, I pulled over and frantically called 911, knowing that I couldn't help this guy without medical assistance. By the time I have got an ambulance on the way and finally jump out of the car, there are already other witnesses on the scene and one man has taken off his tshirt and is compressing the head wound, holding it all together. It was a sickening sight that has made me nervous around motorcycles to this day. The ambulance and police finally arrived and I headed off to work, shook up, but nothing more I could really do to help.

I have had dreams about what I saw that day and as I drive past that spot on the way to work everyday, I still see the bloody mess in my mind. I have often times wondered whether or not the man lived. I guessed I would just never know, until today when he showed up on my doorstep.

It turns out that he had gotten the 911 call from the police and my contact info as well. He tracked me down and this afternoon stood in my front yard and told me, "I want to thank you for saving my life. Without your phone call I wouldn't have made it." He lost 3 pints of blood and had over 200 stitches in his head. He couldn't even sleep laying down for over a month because of the head trauma. He nearly died, and is very blessed to be alive today.

As I looked at his face, I felt such a strange feeling. It was so cool to experience a great outcome in a situation like this. I could see the scar running down the side of his head. He told me he is a minister and we talked for a while about that too. God watches over His faithful, and today, he gave me a great gift by having this man visit and let me now how it all turned out.