It's a Great Day to Be Alive

From: B (kemmere30@yahoo.com)
Story type: Angel
Location: In my car
Source: Form Submission

I had weird vibes all day long that day. I had went to lunch with my husband and a friend. The friend had kept singing "it's a great day to be alive" over and over. I didn't think anything of it at the time except he was having fun.I had went home later and found that my dog had gotten loose and that had never happened before. I then had to run in town for a new cable for him.I didn't want to go myself.I just kept thinking something was wrong.

Well to top it off, I had went out to the truck and tried to start it up and it wouldn't start.It had never, ever done this.I thought ok, this day is just a really odd day for me.I got the truck to start ,went to leave and thought I'd ask someone to ride along with me. My son said alright, then he looked at me in strange way and said that he decided to just stay home.

I pulled down the alley to see my husband,to ask him once more to go with me and he asked me what happened to my tire? I didn't know what he was talking about.I had a flat tire that wasn't there just 10 minutes before.I really didn't want to go but then a neighbor had a spare so I thought I might as well get it done.My daughters ,at last minute, decided to go with me.

Well about 10 minutes after we left I must've fell asleep at the wheel.I knew that the girls had fallen asleep already.I heard someone yell my name and say wake up and it scared me so.I looked up and there was a semi dead straight in front of me.I was looking straight into the headlights of a semi and thought this is it,I prayed to God that he spare the girls lives and just held on tight, fighting the wheel to pull away from the semi.

I swear there was someone there telling me what to do.

I pulled off and we spun around and all I seen then was a wheel rolling down the road. I felt the truck slam down and felt a relief that it was over.Then I looked at my daughter in the front seat and she said,mommy she held me tight through it all. I didn't understand her.I looked back at my other daughter,greatful to hear her screaming rather than silence and thought that we were going to be ok.I heard people talking, trying to get to my daughter that was trapped in the back and I knew I had to move so they could get to her. The doors were smashed and there were no handles to open the doors.

This man was trying as hard as he could to pull that door open and he just couldn't do it.I then pushed until I knocked the door off and I went to climb out and I couldn't feel my legs.I fell to the ground and although I was awake I couldn't see anything but bright light.I kept calling out for my babies.I couldn't find anyone,just light.

Then a familiar voice come to me and it was my grandma that had passed away just months before then.She was telling me that I needed to hang on and fight,go back.She was talking to me and comforting me.I felt her.I could then see her smile.

Then all of a sudden I was able to see what was around me and there was a man standing over me saying "she is going to make it".They life flighted all of us and I started to take a turn for the worse.I had blood coming from my ear and they thought for sure it was head injury and they ended up finding nothing. Not even a scratch.I was unable to walk right away but I am able to do everything now that I used to do.My daughter in the backseat had a broken leg.

The strange thing and most amazing thing,the officers said, about her injury was that the position she was in while she was lying down in the backseat,with her head against the inside left panel, was that that was the side of impact and it was smashed in yet she sustained no injuries to her head at all.Amazing huh? My daughter that was in the front seat only had minor scratches and a couple bruises.She still says there was an angel with her that kept her from harm.I beleive it too when I seen the damage to the vehicle.

When my husband arrived at the hospital he told me that my son had heard sirens but that he couldn't hear them.He said that our son was uncontrolably upset and that just then they heard a call come over their radios.(My husband was a volunteer fireman.)The call was for the next town but they were on standby if they didn't respond.He still didn't know it was us in that accident though.He didn't know until his brother ,which is a police officer, showed up and then he said he just knew it was what he didn't want to hear.

Another strange thing about it was that the guy that was singing "it's a great day to be alive" was there and seen it. He came to the hospital and stood by my side until the family was contacted.He said he just couldn't believe it when he seen my truck. I still wonder sometimes about it all. The paramedic said I was talking to someone or myself and not making any sense of what I was talking about.I say it was because I was talking with my grandma and that she was my guardian angel that day.