Friday, 04/11

     Friday night we all were watching Gordon Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares. It broke to a commercial about driving while texting.  We were all kinda visiting, and not paying too much attention.  When we looked up, a young woman, the driver who was texting, ran a stop sign. The crash was loud, horrific, catastrophic, and the car was mangled. The occupants, in context of the commercial, died.  Caren was traumatized.

     It wasn't the memory of the crash.  She still has no memory of it.  It was the memory of the sound.  She teared up immediately.  The sound of the crash pushed her into an upset, and it was soon after that she headed upstairs to bed.  I was her spotter.  The impact (pun intended) of the commercial left her so weak, she could barely make the journey upstairs.   A couple of times I thought she was falling.

     PTSD   It is not only memories of incidents.  Sounds, smells, and feelings can also trigger PTSD.

Most Americans will be involved in a motor vehicle accident in their lifetime, and one quarter of the population will be involved in accidents that result in serious injuries.1 Annually, more than 3.5 million persons in the United States are injured in a motor vehicle accident, and nearly 42,000 die as a result of their injuries.2

Vehicular accidents sometimes lead to post-traumatic stress symptoms.3–9 Traffic accidents have become the leading cause of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) since the Vietnam war.10 It is estimated that 9 percent of survivors of serious accidents develop significant post-traumatic stress symptoms and that many other survivors have PTSD-like reactions.

     Thank you, prayer partners.  This is but another hurdle to jump victoriously.  Together, we will believe for Caren that full health is restored - body, mind, and spirit.