7 Years

This post has nothing to do with Francerland, but I still feel like it is needed. 7 years ago today (Nov. 17, 2001), my life changed forever. I can still recount this day like it was yesterday. I was 16, I went to see the first Harry Potter movie with my parents during the day, then at night I went to my friend's house while my parents went to dinner. While out with my friends, my brother called me and I said I needed to come to the hospital because my parents had been in a car accident. When I arrived at the ER the, I found two of my brothers (one was training for deployment in Texas) waiting for me. A nurse came in and told us that my dad was on life support and we needed to say goodbye to him. It was like I was in a dream, everything from the point on did not feel real. I walked to the room my dad was in crying and yelling at the nurse to not let my dad die. My oldest brother came and got me and took me back to where he and and my other brother were waiting. After what seemed like hours, the nurse came back and said my mom (who was also in the ER) was asking to see me. My oldest brother and I went back to her room, she kept saying she couldn't believe my dad was gone. My dad died two hours after the car accident, my mom remained in the hospital for a week, 5 of the days were spent in the ICU. The doctors didn't know if my mom was going to make it or not.

The emotions that I felt during the next weeks are impossible to describe. I used to cry thinking that I would never hear him speak again. That he would never take me on one of our father/daughter vacations again. Eventually, I accepted what happened, but still everyear November 17th is a terrible day to get through.