Accident In the Playground

Last Saturday when I was at my in-laws, my MIL's mobile rang (remember that in Finland these days there are only a FEW people who have regular home phone as using mobile phones is FAR cheaper), so she picked it up and at the end of the call, her eyes got wet. I knew something was wrong, but I didn't ask right away as she was getting ready to go to her godson's 50th birthday party.

When she was almost ready, she got out and she told us about an accident at a playground in a daycare. Apparently a niece's daughter, who was 2 years old, was on the swing in the playground and for some reason she fell down and she was taken to the ER right away. If I remember correctly, she was unconscious when she was taken there and preliminary examination showed that there was some bleeding in the brain. Uuuuuhhhh...isn't this one of the scariest moments for parents?

While I was listening to it, I had goosebumps already and I really felt for them. My MIL said that they're keeping her "asleep" even though she's conscious already since perhaps they're afraid that the bleeding may get worse. I certainly hope that she's going to get better!!!!!



OK, I'm soon off to my friend's house for our weekly Finnish meeting and I'll blog-hop later, OK? Take care and I hope that to those of you who have kids, that God will protect them and keep them safe from harm!!!!!!!!

Life Without Pain (An Old One)

I wrote this one in September 2006, but I thought this is a good reminder of the importance of physical pain in our lives. Maybe you've seen the show as well, so this is nothing new, but here goes...

WARNING: The post includes disturbing descriptions, so if you don't wanna be disturbed, don't read it.

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How does it feel to live without pain? I saw Oprah Show today and it was so graphically disturbing. There was this girl who couldn't feel pain ever since she was born. Her nerves for some reason couldn't transmit pain to the brain. What happened? When the girl was teething, she kept on chewing her lips and biting her fingers as though they were doughnuts and she didn't even feel any pain even though her lips were bleeding and her fingers were mangled!!!

The doctor had to pull her teeth out so that she stopped biting her own body parts. Then the doctor had to stitch her eyelids so that the other eye would be unharmed, but she kept on scratching the stitches, so her other eyesight was also imperfect. She also had to put goggles on her eyes to protect them, since she started scratching them so hard that she injured one of her cornea. Yeah, that meant she had to wear a fake eyeball (every day her Mom put the fake eyeball inside her socket). Once she also held a light bulb (the switch was turned on) in her palm until it burned, yet she didn't feel a thing.

When she was a bit older, her parents didn't even realize that her neck was broken until a month after the incident had happened. Because of her 'dysfunctional nerves', she also couldn't feel the weather. She also didn't know how it felt like if her bladder was full. Her parents were still grateful that she was still alive (she's now around 7 years old), but her Mom said, "Well, we all want to get rid of pain, but look what happens when we can't feel any pain at all!"

Yeah, God lets us feel pain for a reason. A good reason. I'd never even fathomed the depth of why God let us feel any physical pain until I saw the show this morning. Sometimes I think we learn more from suffering than from joy. Oh well...at least the show has opened my horizon SO widely. :-))) I'd NEVER look at physical pain the same way again after watching this show!!!