Have ya'll ever heard of pregnancy brain?
Chuck read somewhere that your brain actually shrinks when you're pregnant.
Which is strange since nothing else shrinks when you're pregnant
I mean come on! It's gotta be our brains that shrink???
Anyways, I blame the baby for this.
Sure, it was just an embryo at the time but still, I blame him/her.
Because it couldn't have been me, who got out of my car while it was running, left it in gear,
WHILE CHARLEY WAS INSIDE,
and let it roll back toward the road.
With my kid inside.
Did I mention my kid was inside?
And while I am making light of it now, it certainly wasn't a funny situation when I heard her scream, turned around, took off as fast as my pregnant body would allow, flip flops flying, long hippy skirt whipping in the wind, my mind working in slow motion, praying please God, please God, please God....she's going into the road, please God no cars, no she's going to hit the tree, please God don't let her hit the tree, oh my gosh, she is going in the ditch!!! Please God, please God....
I reached the car and jumped in at what I thought was the last possible second and slammed on the brakes. I pulled her from the backseat and out the front driver's door.
Got out.
And cried, and cried.
Thank you God, thank you God, thank you.
It seems the car hit the fence and brought down the post and all, before the coming to a rest on top of the telephone pole that was lying on the concrete culvert.
Later, I decided it was the pole that kept her from going into the ditch,
not my efforts to slam on the brakes at that moment.
Who knows, maybe the momentum was broken by my efforts.
All I know is I am so thankful.
Thankful she didn't get hurt.
Thankful for that old wet, rotting pole.
Thankful that I live on a flat road.
Thankful that my street is a dead end therefore there are very few cars speeding by.
Thankful that Charley didn't follow through with her thought to jump out the window!
(The very idea makes my stomach lurch.)
Thankful I didn't leave the car in gear at my Dad's house, or worse yet my Mom's!
We park just short of death over there, facing a cliff's edge that ends with the river.
Most of all I am thankful for little reminders to stay tuned in.
While it totally stunk to have to get my car towed and then my fuel line reattached, it's nice to have these reminders to slow down and stay safe.
I praise God for enough of those reminders my 16th year.
And when it comes time, and as hard as it is to imagine, I pray Charley has them too.
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Scary.
ReplyDeleteWow! Glad ya'll are ok!!! You know I burned our bottles up while boiling them several times right after Jordan was born. I would put them on to boil and forget about them and fall asleep or something - so maybe the brain takes some time to grow back:) Really, it worried us so much I stopped boiling bottles unless Guy was at home with me.
ReplyDeleteI read in "The Female Brain"...written by an MD..that your brain does shrink during pregnancy and does not go back to normal for about 6 months post giving birth. So it is real! I'm glad everything turned out ok cousin. Miss you!
ReplyDeleteI'm glad y'all are safe and sound! You were both certainly being watched that day. :)
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