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A Siren’s Sound for Prayer

Inspired by my aunt, I too decided to use the sound of sirens as a teaching opportunity for my children. Young children seem to have a natural curiosity for a siren noise. Add the racing by of a police car, fire engine or ambulance, and with many children, it has their undivided attention. Rather than having scenes like this for pure spectating, why not turn it into an opportunity to instill some values in your children? Early on, our children were told emergency vehicles sounded their sirens when they needed roads cleared to quickly reach the scene of a serious … Continue reading →

What Happens At The Hospital Following Serious Injury Of A Child?

This may be a difficult Blog for some people to read, because we really don’t want to imagine our child hurting or suffering in any way. Serious Injury is never a planned event, and not a situation parents want to face. However, One of the leading causes of death for children are accidents resulting in serious injury. If your child is critically hurt there is generally no time to stop and think about what is going on. Some parents fall apart right away and cry or become inconsolable. Other parents switch into auto-pilot mode and just trudge through the situation. … Continue reading →

The Unexpected Trauma Injury-My Son’s Accident

Continued from: When Your Child Is Hurt–The Unexpected Trauma Injury Our Lives have never been the same since the day my 9-year-old son was seriously injured and taken by Life Flight to the trauma hospital. Our family had been enjoying an ordinary snow day when tragedy struck, we watched the helicopter take off with Sean inside and scrambled to figure out how to get through the icy roads to the trauma hospital. It was about an hour since the phone call and our world was upside down. It was only around lunch time when we let our son go play … Continue reading →

5-Things To Know If Your Child Has To Fly To A Trauma Hospital

1- If you are at the scene and give consent for your child to be taken by helicopter to a trauma hospital life saving medical procedures may start during flight or at the hospital before you arrive. 2- If parents are not at the scene and have not been notified of the accident or injury the state may assume custody and life saving procedures may be started before you are notified or consent. When your children go on outings with Church, school or family and friends it’s important to be sure they have emergency contact information one them at all … Continue reading →

Life Flight Membership, Fly Free For Under $100. A Year.

No one expects to need a helicopter flight to the hospital but when time matters the most, helicopter emergency transportation may be the difference between life and death. The trademark term “Life Flight” was created when the service began, at Memorial Hermann Health Care System in Houston, Texas during 1976. Founded by James “Red” Duke, M.D., medical director for Life Flight. Memorial Hermann Health Care System had the second helicopter air medical program in the United States. In most areas of the country Life Flight, or a similar service, is now available to transport critically ill or injured patients to … Continue reading →

When Your Child Is Hurt–The Unexpected Trauma Injury

Before you read this Blog I need to warn you, I tend to get a little dramatic when I write about this event in our family’s life. To my credit I think it should be expected that a mommy would be dramatic about a traumatic life changing injury happening to her oldest child. The truth is we do not live our lives thinking we would be the people on the evening news, or that our child would be taken to the hospital in a life flight helicopter. It was December 6, 1992 and snow had covered the valley floor of … Continue reading →