DRIVE CAREFUL!

On the way to my Dr. appt today-finally got some medicine for this sinus situation going on-i drove by an AWFUl looking car accident, i flipped a U-ey to see if they needed any help, or if i could offer anything.

What i saw was a little two door truck flipped over and sitting right on top of the cab. The teenage boy had somehow managed to climb out of his passenger side window. I have no idea how, the frame was so smashed up and small. His mom was still buckled into the drivers side hanging up side down!

There were a few people there already seeing what they could do to help, one witness etc. Right when i arrived they were just calling 911. I went to the driver's side to talk to the lady, got her name and told her help was on the way etc.

I'm an LVN but i still feel like, what do i do in a situation like this? i feel a little responsible to stop and see if i can help since i've had more medical training then others. But seriously, i was at a loss when i'm talking to this women hanging upside down. I just wanted her to keep talking to me, i was trying to feel her out, is she hurt? etc. i didn't want her to go into shock i suppose. She spoke spanish better so i had her son keep talking to her, aw poor lady! The boy told me that she swerved to miss something running across the road and then they lost control. The witness told me that they most of flew 25 feet, he said they were super high in the air.

Pretty soon an off duty police officer came up and talked to the lady who was now complaining that her seat belt was getting tight.(she was a stud! the only thing she ever said was that her seat belt was getting tight. she never said anything else hurt or that she was scared or anything! She just hung there with one hand on the roof to help hold her) She wanted us to take it off of her but me and a few other people agreed she needed to wait til the firemen got there to take care of that, we didn't want to move her and possible injure her...well the police man was laying partly in the window talking to her and before we know it she is crawling out that little space of a window-if that's what you call it.

When she got to her feet she grabbed her son and just hugged him for a good while. She had the biggest smile on her face. She look genuinely happy to be alive and to see her kid in good health as well. You could tell from her smile that she felt like the luckiest person in the world. Seeing her hug her son almost brought me to tears. HA. i'm the one almost crying and she just crawled out of her smashed truck, i'm telling you, she was a trooper.

Just a little self reminder that things can take a turn for the worse at any second of any day. I'm so grateful for my family and health and safety. I'm so grateful that this lady and her son were okay.

Please DRIVE CAREFUL