A Year After
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| Autumn @ Cunningham Park, St. Johns Hospital in background |
May 22nd, 20012 marked the one year anniversary of the single most worst day of my life. If you follow any sort of national news, you no doubt would have heard about the tornado that ripped threw Joplin, Mo. on that date in 2011. That was the day my ten year old daughter and her mother were picked up while inside their car & thrown a city block onto what was left the Pepsi building (My daughter was ejected from the car after a few rolls and thrown another estimated thirty feet).
After a sixteen day stay in the hospital, 5 surgeries and a ton of peoples well wishes, donations and help, she finally started to re-live life. This story is mainly about her. But I also want to take a little bit of the time to talk about a few other things. We will get to them later.
Autumn was ten when she was in the tornado. She was covered head to toe in cuts and bruises. This has all been documented in my first blog "My Survivor". Since then she has rebounded unlike anything I could ever have hoped for. Her scars are smoothing out and her leg is starting to have a somewhat normal texture. Her leg will never look normal, the amount of meat and skin loss prevents that, but compared to what it looked like, it looks wonderful. If you remember, her leg had a chunk of meat removed all the way to the muscle.
After a sixteen day stay in the hospital, 5 surgeries and a ton of peoples well wishes, donations and help, she finally started to re-live life. This story is mainly about her. But I also want to take a little bit of the time to talk about a few other things. We will get to them later.
Autumn was ten when she was in the tornado. She was covered head to toe in cuts and bruises. This has all been documented in my first blog "My Survivor". Since then she has rebounded unlike anything I could ever have hoped for. Her scars are smoothing out and her leg is starting to have a somewhat normal texture. Her leg will never look normal, the amount of meat and skin loss prevents that, but compared to what it looked like, it looks wonderful. If you remember, her leg had a chunk of meat removed all the way to the muscle.
