Monday Funday

Monday was spent still in the lovely city of Santa Barbara! Wooh! Typing what I wrote for my blog entry while I was computer-less makes me miss SB already! Well this is a short and sweet entry so maybe I can delay the waterworks a little bit... ;)

My opportunity to choose love today was done with the help of a few of my friends, so I am so thankful for them and their understanding! I was walking back to where I had parked my car, a few blocks over from the house I was staying at the night before (Thank you Elizabeth for opening your home to me!!!). I was supposed to go straight downtown to my Kristen's house... where she was being just an angel and making me breakfast! Then, I was supposed to come back to IV and hang out with my dear friend Jeff. Well that didn't happen! On my way to my car, I witnessed a pretty gnarly bike accident. Some girl was turning a corner and a skateboarder came out of no where and accidentally cut her off. She turned hard and her bike skid out from underneath her. She fell so hard to the ground and hit her head. Hard. Like you could honestly hear the sound. I rushed over to help her. The skateboarder stopped and was apologizing profusely and one other person came by to help us out. I was definitely far enough away that I could have just walked by and gone on with my life and with my plans... but my EMT/nursing/human qualities just could not do that. So I stopped to help her out. She was cut up on her whole right side and had a lot of bleeding under the skin of her skull. She lost consciousness too. Poor girl! I ended up locking up her bike at the bike rack nearby, did a quick trauma assessment, and then took her to urgent care. She was pretty banged up and all alone. She told me a lot about her life and about the terrible week she was having. I felt so sorry for her and her situation. I prayed with her and stayed with her the whole time. She did have a lot of bleeding right under the skin, but luckily no bleeding in her brain! A concussion--which are terrible--but nothing life-threatening. Praise!!! She kept saying she owed me and that she needed to repay me for being there to help her. This kinda made me sad because I would just honestly hope that as humans we are better than that! I would hope that other people would have done the same if they were in my place. I told her that I wasn't being nice, I was just acting how someone should act. I hope that she feels loved and valued.

Thank you so much for my friends for their understanding about me totally bailing! Especially since I was never to see Jeff at all that trip. Thank you, thank you, thank you! You really were so wonderful and enabled me to help choose love!