[blparent] Perspective

[Tracey Turri]

Wow, I would have been freeking out to, thank goodness every thing
turned out ok.
Hugs,
Tracey

On 11/5/12, Veronica Smith <madison_tewe at spinn.net> wrote:
> I've had days like that.
>
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> From: blparent [mailto:blparent-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jo
> Elizabeth Pinto
> Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 3:20 PM
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> Subject: [blparent] Perspective
>
> I had one of those moments this morning, one of those moments that puts
> everything into crystal clear perspective, if only for a split second.
> Maybe I’m writing it down just to try and process it, since it’s been two
> and a half hours and I can still feel my heart racing.  I know sighted
> parents have these moments too, when they look up from examining something
> in a store and don’t see their kids, or when an ambulance goes screaming by
> and they glance around to make sure their little ones are safe.  But I think
> this one did happen because I was blind.
>
> Sarah was riding her three-wheeled Barbie scooter on the sidewalk in front
> of our townhouse.  I went inside just for a minute or two when nature’s call
> refused to be ignored.  Then I walked back out onto the porch and called for
> Sarah to come get her stuff so her dad could take her to school.  She didn’t
> answer.  I stepped down off the porch and yelled louder, since my bum knee
> has been slowing me down and I didn’t want to walk back out to where I had
> left her loading up her scooter with rocks and pine cones under a tree in
> the neighbor’s front yard so she could bring me the “mail” again.  She still
> didn’t answer.  She’s supposed to stay on the straight sidewalk that runs in
> front of our building when she’s riding her bike or scooter unless someone
> is with her.  I had heard a big truck in the parking lot one house over from
> mine, and as I yelled again, it began to make the familiar noises of a trash
> truck.  I started screaming for Sarah, because just for that split second,
> my mind had me convinced that the sanitation driver hadn’t seen her on her
> scooter, and she was mashed under that truck.  I don’t even remember running
> down the sidewalk toward the dumpster, although my knee is now reminding me
> that I did it.  And there she was with her dad, who had just driven up to
> take her to school, both of them wondering why I was racing toward them,
> hysterical.  Dad thinks she didn’t hear me calling because of the truck.
> I’m not sure if she didn’t hear or just decided not to answer.  But after
> they left for school, I sobbed my way through an oversized cup of coffee,
> two miniature Kit-Kat bars, and one mini-bag of Peanut M&M’s, rattled by
> what didn’t happen but could have, or what felt for a second like it really
> happened even though it didn’t.
>
> I guess I’m telling this because I’m still seriously behind with my work, my
> house is still strewn with toys from one end to the other, my credit card is
> still maxed out, I still don’t know what I’m going to make for supper
> tonight—but my daughter didn’t get squashed by a fearsome but perfectly
> innocent trash truck.  It’s a good day.
>
> Jo Elizabeth
>
> Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may
> kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at
> evening.--Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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