Miracles Do Exist…
Fifteen years ago today, doctors told me my daughter had a 125% chance of not surviving the night. “Are you crazy, do you know how many angels are with her?” I snapped at him.
He looked at me strangely, “Well they better be with her now,” he snapped back.
And I yelled, “They are.”
Then I questioned him how the motorcycle driver was doing?
Hours earlier I had ran red lights, drove on sidewalks and through a police roadblock to get to my daughter’s accident scene on Rt 110 in Dracut, Mass. I saw a motorcycle crashed on the road and the vehicle my daughter was in over a guardrail, upside down in a tree along the Merrimac River.
Days later as my daughter underwent a life threatening eight hour surgery, I once again questioned about the motorcycle driver. I wanted to make sure that driver survived. A nurse then came up to me.
“Have you ever lost a loved one who rode a motorcycle?” she questioned me.
I looked at her confused as I answered, “Yes, why?”
That’s when she told me, “Well, they were with you because your daughter was involved in a single car crash.”
Every hair on my arms stood up as I watched that nurse hurriedly away to tend other patients in the pediatric ICU ward at Mass General in Boston.
My daughter broke every bone from her cheek bone and down. We were told immediately that she was paralyzed. With over 1,000 stitches on the left side of her face and nearly 400 stitches on her right side, she never questioned, “Why me?”
June 19, 2006…My children lost their beloved Papa.
June 19, 2009… Was my daughter’s best friends first birthday in heaven.
June 19, 2009… My daughter was just 16 years old when this tragedy happened.
Today my daughter is 31 years old, a new mom and finally has a June 19th that will make happy little memories filled with diaper changes, baby kisses and the miracle we call Alayna ♡
Miracles do exist and I am thankful everyday to the angels who were there that day in June of 2009 ⚘️
Books By Catherine Mellen 