When the Unexpected Drops in for a Visit

She heard someone knocking at the door. It was her cousin who had come to pick her up to go do some dollar shopping for the orphanage and the soldiers in Iraq, whom they sent supplies to. As she let Mary in, the phone which had a talking caller ID announced that the call was from Her husband's work. Knowing that something
was wrong, she immediately answered the call.Her husband's boss was on the other end, telling her that she needed to come quickly, to take Will to the hospital.

Mary decided to go back home after promising to pray for them. Then Stacy called their mentor and asked him to pray for them. She called for her son to go with her as she ran to the car.They drove down State Road 574 toward Seffner when they encountered a white, panel van pulling out of a stop from a cross street.

The driver didn't see her little brown omni and she had no horn to warn him with, since Will had disconnected it the week before.She waved her hands in the air and kept moving her car further and further out of her lane, all the way over to the left shoulder of the road. But the van still kept coming straight at them, until it hit the right front of the car.It struck the only part of the car that didn't total the car, nor hurt Andrew since he was in the front passenger seat and at the point of impact.

The force of the crash shoved her car down into a six foot drainage ditch, while she still waved her arms in the air. When the car finally stopped, it was back up on the left shoulder facing the road in the wrong direction.An officer appeared out of nowhere to direct the rush hour traffic that had been absent during the collision.

He told both drivers to park in front of a house that could have been out of a horror movie. Stacy looked around and saw a man standing in the driveway talking on a cordless phone. As she walked toward him, she heard a voice telling her to be careful how she approached him. As she got nearer, she saw that he looked like someone out of a mob movie, with a long ponytail and a physical demeanor that caused her hair to stand up on-end. She borrowed his phone to call her mentor for prayer.Then she called and asked Mary if she would go get Will and meet her at their mentor's house,since she was no longer able to drive to the hospital.

She was talking to the other driver when three more squad cars drove up to the house. One of them was a K-9 unit. As the officers walked through the front door of the house, Stacy and her fellow driver watched as the occupants of the house ran out the back door, climbed over the back fence and ran into the neighboring woods.They didn't see the officers follow them.

After the officers went through the house, the original officer came back to them and finished the accident report, telling Stacy that her car was not safe to drive.Andrew held the his door closed,since it no longer shut on its own, while she drove them home.She called her cousin, who was back home, since she wasn't able to get Will. By the time she arrived in the parking lot,the Firetruck,Paramedics and ambulance had come and were loading Will into a Medivac unit, blocking off the area.

Stacy called one of her best friends, Ann and their mentor to pray for Will, since his work had called and told her that he had an aneurysm and had almost died on the floor of their office.Then Mary took them to Tampa General to see Will

They arrived at the hospital 45 minutes later,since they lived among the strawberry fields.They parked the car and went into emergency and were directed to where Will had been sent.The doctors had already examined him and he was waiting for the results of the xrays and tests they had taken. While they waited, Will told Stacy how God had talked to him while he was in the helicopter on the way to the hospital, about how he needed to examine the direction he had been taking in his life,that he was going to come through this situation,and to trust God to bring him out of it.

The doctor returned with the test results and xrays and found that Will no longer had the aneurysm, but that he needed surgery for a hernia his doctor had missed when sewing up another hernia, the year before. He told them they needed to schedule surgery soon, and released him.They gathered Will's things and walked out of the hospital.

Later:

Will saw his doctor and had the surgery. They also contacted the other driver's insurance and were able to keep their car while also collecting on the damages for the accident. They wired the damaged door shut, filling the gaps around the frame with spray foam insulation and drove the car for another two years.

They were thankful that Will survived, that neither Stacy nor Andrew were hurt or killed in the accident and that they caught the hernia in time.

Their mentor joked that if he hadn't known that this had really happened he would have thought it was a plot from a movie and that the only thing missing from the emergency scene was the National Guard.