F.Y.I. (sorry)
Just to let you know, we're putting together a new site for Caroline. Keep checking back over the next few weeks as we get things going. For now go to her most current site http://www.carolineshope.org/caroline08
Caroline's Hope
Someday
Hi, my name is Caroline and someday I will be able to write this letter myself but until then I need people like my Pop Pop Phil. I don’t remember much because I was only 10 months old, but I heard it was a very scary day that turned our whole family up side down. On February 7th, 2003, my Mom, Dad, and me and also our two dogs Sam and Chloe got into Mommy’s car to spend the day at my Mom-Mom’s house around the corner from my Dad’s work. It snowed that day and my Dad was going to work for a few hours in the afternoon after the roads were cleared. We dropped Dad off and then started off to my Mom-Mom’s only two miles away. Like I said, I was only 10 months old so I don’t remember anything and my Mom was hurt really bad so she doesn’t either, but they said a trash truck splashed a huge pile of slush and snow onto my mom’s windshield causing her to loose control of the car. After that we were hit from the side, my side of the car, by an small pick-up truck. That’s the moment everything changed for my whole family and especially me. Though I’m not sure what a spinal cord is, they tell me I had a C1-C2 spinal cord distraction and that’s why I have this ventilator and wheel chair to get around. They also tell me it’s miracle that I’m even here today, but thanks to some really nice police officers my Mommy and me are still here for my Daddy to kiss and hug. He’s always kissing and hugging me and my little sister Jillian. My Mommy had a bad head injury that left her in a coma for 18 days and she had to learn how to walk all over again. I spent seven months in the hospital where I got stronger. My Dad and both of my Mom-Moms learned everything they needed to know to take care of me at home.