Old Accident

A lady called the office today about a claim, and she mentioned that she had to bring her son to urgent care. When I checked her file, the name matched up with a person in our file of old medical claims that are ongoing. I don't want to name names here, but the accident happened on 2-24-79.

I looked up the original claim, and the report said that he was traveling on Austin Rd. towards Saline when he lost control, crossed the center line and hit another vehicle head on. He was critically injured and his passenger was killed. When I checked his age at the time of the accident, he was 17.

17 in 1979-that was 37 years ago! This boy, now man, is still suffering from the injuries from that accident, not to mention the loss of his friend! He is now 54 years old. What kind of a life has he had? There are sketchy details about the nature of his injuries (I can snoop and check later if he had a brain injury or what) but there are scads and scads of medical payments since that time. Wow!

I have said in other posts, I know you wouldn't have wanted that kind of life, which is probably what you would have had if you lived. If God lined up our choices/your choices in front of us after the accident, even though your dying is very hard, what would the other options be like? Ongoing suffering and pain, endless medical treatments (even though they would all be covered by insurance, they would be ongoing), the list goes on and on.

I know I've talked about this before-it was just a good reminder and a real-life example of somebody who has experienced a different outcome of a similar accident. Love you boy!