When we have the use of our limbs and can do anything we want, we do not think of what could happen if we lost them, nor can we prepare ourselves for a day when we suddenly are thrown into a new world.

My name is Loretta Lyn Grier, 47, mother of six children and one grandchild, and a wonderful but confused husband. I stayed home and raised my children until the last one because we were buying a new home and needed my income. My son was in school at least. I had finally after a few years found the very kind of job I wanted and enjoyed it I worked temporary for about ten months until they decided to make me permanent so it was my fifth day as a permanent employee when my whole life changed in one split second.

On January 5, 1999, a drunk, speeding driver came down the road I was turning on, hit me in my driver's side door and fender, never making any attempt to avoid hitting me. He skid some thirty feet and sent me flying sixty feet off the ground into a corner cemetary. A witness told the police I ran the stop sign, so they hold me accountable for the accident. The man that hit me had two cracked ribs and went to the hospital for a couple of days so they never held him accountable for the one year old in his back seat or for driving drunk. I personally remember nothing of the morning before the accident or a couple of weeks, days before it happened.

They did not think was going to live long enough to make it to the hospital let alone through the night, but I fooled them all. I was unconscious for a few weeks and drugged up for almost two months because of the severity of my accident. I suffered a traumatic brain injury which damaged the frontal part of my brain and my eyes were crossed and teeth knocked out.

Never once have I wished God had taken me home right then and there until my struggle just recently with what I am facing now. I struggle with people's reactions and inabilities to understand, but through it all I know God is still sustaining me. He has to be.

I have stopped asking why and just live day to day, minute to minute. I now want to find out what God spared me to do for Him, and feel strongly I have to help other misunderstood and hurting people just like me.

Thank you for helping me through the loneliness and gloomy days by reaching out for help and finding peace in your friendship here.
Thank you.

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