This is not a happy story. I don't tell it for sympathy. I tell it as a warning.
My cousin Erica died this week. She left a bar at about 2:00 in the morning Monday. She left driving at a high rate of speed. At some point not far from the bar she ran into a telephone pole. The pole left a 17 inch "V" in the hood of her car. The car did not stop. It flipped into the adjacent vacant lot. The grass in that lot was high. Passersby did not see the headlights of Erica's wrecked car for two hours. She and her passenger bled for those two hours.
I don't know anything of her passenger. Other than he is a young man who might live. Even with the blood loss and brain damage.
Erica was brain dead the whole time she was in the hospital. The doctors did a special exploratory surgery to find any sign of brain activity. There was none.
A couple of days later her heart stopped. She finally died.
She had a similar experience 4 years earlier as a passenger of a drunk driver. The car rolled. Brain damage. But she healed completely.
She got a second chance. Then threw it away.
My Uncle Bill, Aunt Sylvia and Cousin Sean are the ones who really deserve the sympathy. They lived with Erica her whole troubled life. They suffered more than she did. I hope they realize the peace they deserve.
Alcoholism runs in my family. I made the choice as a boy to never drink. And I never have. I have seen the destruction alcohol can cause.
This is not a happy story. I don't tell it for sympathy. I tell it as a warning.
My cousin Erica died this week. She left a bar at about 2:00 in the morning Monday. She left driving at a high rate of speed. At some point not far from the bar she ran into a telephone pole. The pole left a 17 inch "V" in the hood of her car. The car did not stop. It flipped into the adjacent vacant lot. The grass in that lot was high. Passersby did not see the headlights of Erica's wrecked car for two hours. She and her passenger bled for those two hours.
I don't know anything of her passenger. Other than he is a young man who might live. Even with the blood loss and brain damage.
Erica was brain dead the whole time she was in the hospital. The doctors did a special exploratory surgery to find any sign of brain activity. There was none.
A couple of days later her heart stopped. She finally died.
She had a similar experience 4 years earlier as a passenger of a drunk driver. The car rolled. Brain damage. But she healed completely.
She got a second chance. Then threw it away.
My Uncle Bill, Aunt Sylvia and Cousin Sean are the ones who really deserve the sympathy. They lived with Erica her whole troubled life. They suffered more than she did. I hope they realize the peace they deserve.
Alcoholism runs in my family. I made the choice as a boy to never drink. And I never have. I have seen the destruction alcohol can cause.
This is not a happy story. I don't tell it for sympathy. I tell it as a warning.
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Many condolences. I hope your Uncle and the family see their way through that ok.