It was a cold, sunshiny wintry day as our vibrant, beautiful 15 yr. old left for school.
It seems to me that it was only a year before that Sharon had brought home a book for me to read that she had purchased at a book fair at her junior high school. As I look back over the years I have a much clearer vision of why she had given me this particular book. At the time it looked to be another interesting story about a girl named Sharon who was 15 yrs. old and who had made a miraculous recovery from an auto accident where she had sustained a severe head injury. I believe our daughter bought this book because she identified with the girls name being Sharon and their age was about the same. Little did I know it would be about one year later that my own daughter would be going through an identical head trauma very similar to the story I had read and Sharon would have now turned 15. By the way, the name of the book is, "There Is Hope" by her mother Lucille Glaeser.
My husband was home at the time I got the fateful phone call. We had been busy preparing to have a Young Life meeting/Bible Study at our home that evening and I was getting dinner ready. The chicken was in the oven and I was peeling potatoes. Earlier in the afternoon I had received a call from Sharon asking me to pick her up. She was staying after to help coach a girls running team. Sadly to say I told her no that she would have to find a ride home. I don't know why (looking back) I couldn't have stopped for 15 min and gone and picked her up but I was busy with what I was doing. She said ok. Around 4:45pm I looked at the clock and realized that she hadn't come home yet. There was a little alarm that had gone off in my mind at the time. I felt a little uneasy when I realized that she should have been home by now. Then the phone call came that changed our lives. Bob from Young Life called and asked me if I had heard anything about Sharon being in an accident? "No I hadn't, what do you mean?" He tried to avoid telling me what he had heard but I insisted he tell me why he had asked that question. That's when he said that he had heard that she had been hit by a car on Ritchie Hwy and they had taken her to the hospital. He wasn't sure if this was correct so that is why he hesitated. After I hung up I went into fast motion. My husband was out back cutting wood and as I came out of the house in a frenzy trying to tell him what I knew he immediately got me into the car. We stopped next door and asked our neighbor if they could watch our 5 yr. old son while we ran down to the local hospital. As we arrived at North Arundel emergency room there were two paramedics coming out. They approached us and asked us if we were the Brackett's. After identifying ourselves they then told us the dreadful news that Sharon had been airlifted to Shock Trauma at the University of MD hospital in Baltimore. We knew then that this was serious. (to be continued)
It seems to me that it was only a year before that Sharon had brought home a book for me to read that she had purchased at a book fair at her junior high school. As I look back over the years I have a much clearer vision of why she had given me this particular book. At the time it looked to be another interesting story about a girl named Sharon who was 15 yrs. old and who had made a miraculous recovery from an auto accident where she had sustained a severe head injury. I believe our daughter bought this book because she identified with the girls name being Sharon and their age was about the same. Little did I know it would be about one year later that my own daughter would be going through an identical head trauma very similar to the story I had read and Sharon would have now turned 15. By the way, the name of the book is, "There Is Hope" by her mother Lucille Glaeser.
My husband was home at the time I got the fateful phone call. We had been busy preparing to have a Young Life meeting/Bible Study at our home that evening and I was getting dinner ready. The chicken was in the oven and I was peeling potatoes. Earlier in the afternoon I had received a call from Sharon asking me to pick her up. She was staying after to help coach a girls running team. Sadly to say I told her no that she would have to find a ride home. I don't know why (looking back) I couldn't have stopped for 15 min and gone and picked her up but I was busy with what I was doing. She said ok. Around 4:45pm I looked at the clock and realized that she hadn't come home yet. There was a little alarm that had gone off in my mind at the time. I felt a little uneasy when I realized that she should have been home by now. Then the phone call came that changed our lives. Bob from Young Life called and asked me if I had heard anything about Sharon being in an accident? "No I hadn't, what do you mean?" He tried to avoid telling me what he had heard but I insisted he tell me why he had asked that question. That's when he said that he had heard that she had been hit by a car on Ritchie Hwy and they had taken her to the hospital. He wasn't sure if this was correct so that is why he hesitated. After I hung up I went into fast motion. My husband was out back cutting wood and as I came out of the house in a frenzy trying to tell him what I knew he immediately got me into the car. We stopped next door and asked our neighbor if they could watch our 5 yr. old son while we ran down to the local hospital. As we arrived at North Arundel emergency room there were two paramedics coming out. They approached us and asked us if we were the Brackett's. After identifying ourselves they then told us the dreadful news that Sharon had been airlifted to Shock Trauma at the University of MD hospital in Baltimore. We knew then that this was serious. (to be continued)
