My Miranda Moment

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Life Changing

By keepin_thefaith34

Tuesday, August 5, 2008

A year ago this August, I was in a near fatal car accident. I lost control of my car late at night on a gravel road after leaving a friends house. My car rolled several times and cleared a fence landing in a field. I was ejected from my car and it ended up landing on top of me pinning me underneath the exhaust while the car was still running. I was trapped for an hour burning until somebody finally heard my screams and me beating on my car.... I had even tried digging my way out. I was life flighted to the nearest burn center where they told my dad they didn't know if I'd make it through the night. I had severe 3rd and 4th degree burns from my waste down along with other not quite as serious injuries. I started in on many of my major surgeries that night. They had to slice my legs open because of the swelling and had to wait to see how bad the burns were. (Because just like a steak off the grill, I was still cooking.) I ended up going through dressing changes twice a day for my burns and skin grafts. There is no way to measure the pain of the dressing changes, it's like getting your skin ripped off all over again with every changing. I screamed my way through each one which would last over an hour. My sister knew I wasn't a tv watcher so my family requested a cd player be put in my room and my sister brought in some of my cds. During a dressing change one of my nurses decided to put in one of my Miranda Lambert cds. The dressing changes got easier from that point on. Even though they were just as painful, I could take myself out of the situation with her music. Everytime I wanted to scream I'd just sing along with my 'strong woman' music. The more it hurt, the louder I'd sing. Her music helped me through the hardest time of my life. And after a little over two months later and with one leg less, I was out of the hospital and onto physical therapy.
I recently got the chance to meet her which I felt I HAD to do for kind of a healing process for myself. I was overwhelmed with emotions, I am thankful for how strong willed Miranda is and how much of it shows up in her music.

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