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"...I Called Every Church In The Book" | ||
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The driveway was shared by too homes: the one I live in and the one next door. A man in the air force lived in the house next door. The driveway was very long and all stones and my daughter was playing next to the house in the stones. I walked up to her and hugged her and went around back of the house. I just walk got out back of the house and a man came running out back of the house and said come on your daughter just got run over by a car. I said to him no way I just hugged her and came out back of the house. So I went out front of the house and there she was under the back tire, it was sitting on her chest. The man that lived next door that was in the air force came out and got in his car, was drunk and high on drugs. He didn't even look and ran over her and stopped the car on her chest. People I didn't know ran over and helped pick up the car and I pulled her out from under the wheel. An ambulance pulled up and ask me if I had any insurance and I said no that I just started a new job today. They told me sorry we can't touch her but if you want we will give you a ride to the hospital. So my wife and I put my daughter on a stretcher and put her in the ambulance and we both got in the front and we drove away. They were driving slow on the way and just talking. Six years before that I was in Vietnam so I new what to do with my daughter. We got to the hospital and my wife and I took her in and they told us to go in the waiting room and they would get with us soon. A nurse came out and said they think she was bleeding real bad on the inside and all her ribs were broken and didn't know what else until they got her opened up. So I had to sign some papers and off my daughter went too the operating room. My wife and I didn't have anyone to call cause we just moved there from new York so I got out the phone book and looked under churches, and I called every church in the book, I didn't care what church it was I called them and told them what happen to my daughter and said please pray for her. After about seven hours went by the doctor came out and said her liver was split in three pieces and she had a lot of damage to her insides. He didn't know if she would make it. I went in the bath room and got sick and was crying sooo hard, I hurt so bad on the inside for my daughter cause I loved her sooo much. I came out of the bathroom and my wife and I just hugged and cried and felt sooo helpless. After a while they came out and said you can go in and see her so my wife went in but I just couldn't go in. When my wife came out she said that they had a wall of things build around my daughter with about 24 tubes going in to her to keep her alive. The next day my daughter was asking for her dad cause we were so close so I took a deep breath and went in. When I walked in I almost fell over but I had to keep myself from showing how I felt. I walked over to her and they had her arms and legs tied down so she couldn't move. I bent down and kissed her and told her that I loved her soooo much. She said to me daddy please blow air on my hand so I just stood there blowing and blowing on her hand. My wife and I didn't have any money at all to we couldn't get anything to eat so we just drank from the water fountain. We slept in the chairs and prayed and prayed. After three days went by I walked in the room and a bible was sitting on a table so I picked it up and opened it up and on the inside was a fifty dollar bill. My wife and I started crying and saying thank you lord. My wife and I went down stairs and got something to eat because it had been so long from having nothing to eat because we didn't have any money to get anything. We went back to the room where my daughter was and I would just stand there and blow on her hand and she would just stare in my eyes. My wife and I was there for eight days never showering or changing clothes. The place where I had just got a job called and said it I didn't return to work then I would lose my job. I didn't want to leave my daughter but I had to so my wife said she would just stay with her and for me to go to work cause we needed to pay our rent soon and didn't have any money. I went to work the next day and while I was working all I could see was my daughter under the car and I didn't say anything but the tears would just run down my face. It was so hard not being with my daughter and my wife. After two weeks of working went by all the tubes were taken out of my daughter and they had her sitting up and eating. I just got done working and went to the hospital to see my daughter and the doctor said I need to talk to you and your wife in my office, I thought oh no what could be wrong now. My heart was beating fast when I walked in the doctors office. The doctor said to me and my wife sit down so we took a seat. He started by saying I don't know what has happen but your daughter is healing sooo fast I have never seen anything like this before she was so bad when you brought her in. He said he done a lot of tests and every seems to be ok, so if she takes it easy she will be ok, so you can take her home in the morning. I told the doctor thank you for everything and he left. My wife and I looked and each other and started crying and said thank you God for what you have done. There is a lot more to the story but it would take so long to write. But as the years have gone by I have a grand daughter from my daughter. Thank you God I love you. Andrew Marshall |
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