Sunday, August 13, 2006
Three months ago today Molly was getting ready for the prom and having a really great day. You never know what life will throw at you. I have always been a worrier when it came to my children. I was never able to sleep until they came home and if they were late I would imagine that something horrible had happened to them. What do you do when your worst fears are realized? You step back, count your blessings and continue forward. I feel somewhat hipocritical writing this when I am not the one lying in a hospital bed trying to figure out how to do the simplest things. All I can do is be there to offer support and that never feels like enough. How do you make the shocking, searing phantom pains go away? How do you make the pain in her back go away?
Molly is so close to coming home. She will be getting a seating device soon that will help her sit level for short periods. That will be a big step. In the meantime, she is getting pretty good at standing on one leg and balancing herself. She works very hard in her therapy sessions and has made huge progress. She is such a trooper! She still has so far to go, but she has managed to pull herself out of death's grip and is determined to keep pushing on. I can't wait to bring her home!!
Molly is so close to coming home. She will be getting a seating device soon that will help her sit level for short periods. That will be a big step. In the meantime, she is getting pretty good at standing on one leg and balancing herself. She works very hard in her therapy sessions and has made huge progress. She is such a trooper! She still has so far to go, but she has managed to pull herself out of death's grip and is determined to keep pushing on. I can't wait to bring her home!!
posted by Molly's Page at 11:25 AM
34 Comments:
It sounds like the steps are getting bigger each day. Molly you continue to inspire me, what a amazing daughter your parents have raised. And how proud your parents must be to know they did so much right in raising you. Keep the faith and continue to grow with each day. I always remember you and your family in my prayers; that God gives you strength everyday to make each step count towards going home. What a feeling that will be. And when you feel those raindrops on your face, know that God made all that possible. May that be soon! God Bless you all; Molly, Bernie, Bob, Katie and all your extended family.
Dear Bernie, Bob, Katy, Molly, Like I indicated before, you folks are living proof that the tough really do get going when the going gets tough. Hang in there, keep up the great work and effort and God Bless. Bob M, Hampton Va. 13 Aug
Dear Mrs. Bloom,
So delighted to hear from you again, and to learn despite
Molly's huge challenges she is nearer to coming home than ever. What a blessing it will be for your entire family when she is back in her own house! Despite all of her wonderful medical care, I imagine being home will really speed on her recovery. Everything will seem new again, Mom's cooking, television in your own room, the cat, your friends, privacy and silence when it is YOUR choice, -- oh, nothing is nicer than being home, after having been away.
Our family thinks and speaks of Molly so often, and she, and her family remain in our prayers and thoughts -- thank you for writing to us, with all you have to do, with the worries you have had...speaking for myself, I find news of Molly highly inspirational, and I thank you for letting us be apart of the journey of the Bloom's. Sending you my love,
An Old East Angel
Bernie,
You are not the only mother who waits eagerly for her child to get home, and I honestly don't know what I would do if things that I fear for my son came true. I just think you are doing such a great job and remain grateful that Molly has a mother like you!
Keep taking good care of her and give to her all of our love and hope!
All the love in the world!
Joni
One day at a time...If I could take away any of your pain...I would! Sermon today was again on STORMS we all have them...I need be reminded of that not only so I know I am not in a boat by myself but also so I remember to look past my nose!Don't you ever feel hypocritical!!! When your child hurts you hurt three fold! You keep doin' what you are doin'! You are awesome! Even at your ugliest moments you are awesome! You are there and you are doing what must be done! You really are an inspiration! Love to you all! Allegheny Mt's Mom
Dear Blooms,
I hope that your day has been going well. All of us who have been with you throughout this ordeal, also can't wait until you bring Molly home. It will be such a great step forward, when she once again stands in the doorway of her own room.
We will be out of town until Aug 21st. Hopefully there will be some good funny movies out by that time.You all will be in our thoughts as we travel.
Continue to take care of one another.
Marga
I love hearing new updates on this. I haven't seen Molly in person since before prom, nad now I'm regretting having gone out of town because I've wanted to see her. And when you read this Molly, substitute the "her" with "you" whenever it comes up, hehe.
I don't know how to get a hold of you guys to know if there are times when it is bad to visit, but I'm hoping to visit tomorrow. I've been looking forward to being able to vivist. I'll go, and if I find out that I can't visit, maybe I can talk to you((meaning Bernie, her mom, hehe))... and see when would be a better time.
Molly...Great is God's Faithfulness! He never leaves us or forgets us, He knows what we are going through. God sees the big picture and in the midst of the storm (and you have a big one here), God is shaping us and preparing us for something we can't imagine! Your injury was no surprise to God. But Oh What a surprise it will be to see how God uses you and this situation to bring about something powerful and wonderful.
I have been praying for you (& your family) since I stumbled upon a news clip just after the benefit concert. Your mother is an amazing woman ...and ah it is obvious that "like mother/like daughter". Strength and determination is showing up like maybe neither of you coulud have imagined. And, I am sure that neither of you can imagine that in the midst of your struggles, you are encouraging others through their situations. Smile - God is Good and God CARES and ah yes... He is oh so FAITHFUL! He will carry you, when you think you cannot go on. He will use you in unimaginable ways! Look forward to what is to come! You will continue to be in my prayers!
and by the way, People all over the world are praying for you! I happen to live in the "OZARKS", in NW Arkansas. So.... Greetings from the Ozarks and know you've got prayers coming from here too :-)
Hello,
Sounds like things are coming along well so far. It will be so nice to see Molly get back home. That should be a really big and comforting step for all of you.
Bernie, don't feel hypocritical, don't be hard on yourself, you are the best thing Molly could possibly have right now!! You are an awesome Mom!!
GO MOLLY!!!! You are certainly a HERO in my eyes!!! Keep working hard on your PT and you'll be back home before you know it!!
Big Hug to All of you!!
Al
Pittsburgh PA
Every day another step. You go, Molly!
Molly,
Keep up the fight. I cannot imagine what you have been through, but through faith you will find your light at the end of the tunnel. Prayers for you and your family from Port Republic, Virginia.
Hello Bob, Bernie Katy, and Molly,
I'm sure it feels like Molly has been in the hospital forever but with how severe her injuries were, it's a miracle after 3 months your talking about bringing her home. It shows how strong and determined she is. May God continue to bless you all.
I have to tell you of another vacation story. On the way home we stopped in a casino. I walked up to the crap table and there were two bored looking dealers waiting for someone to play. Just then, a very attractive blonde showed up and bet $10,000 on one roll of the dice. She told the dealers she is always luckier if she plays topless. So she took her top off, and yelled, "Come on baby, Mama needs a new top!" As the dice came to a stop she screamed, "YES, YES, I WON, I WON!! She then hugged both dealers, grabbed her winnings and left. The dealers just looked at each other dumfounded. Finally one said, "What did she roll." The other one said, "I thought you were watching." This proves two things. Blondes are not dumb, and men are men.
Stay strong and stay cool,
Denver Bob
Hello,I have been following Molly's story for a few weeks now. I first heard about it because of the Jessica Biel date auction. I read an article about it online and it really grabbed my attention because the day of Molly's accident was my wedding day. It is so hard to imagine that day as the most perfect day of my life (so far) and that it will always be the day that changed everything for your daughter. I am so terribly sorry for what happened to her. You seem to be an amazing family and I am awed at your ability to support and nuture her through this time. I include Molly in my prayers and I keep faith that she will recover and go on to live a full life. God bless you all, Paula in Atlanta, GA
I want to offer an avenue of support for you and your mom. My daughter was hit by a drunk driver a week before her 24th birthday. We have gone through it all, it is a long and hard road, you need all the support you can get. It is a great resource to have other moms and friends that have gone through a similar situation. I know the horrors of those middle of the night phone calls, the months in ICU, weekly surgeries. There is hope, and lots of resources for you out there, we will pray for you and if you need to talk to anyone or ask questions about the transition from hospital to home, I would like to be a support for mom, just one mom to another. God Bless you, Desiree
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Molly and family, I just wanted you to know that I check on your progress on a regular basis. I am convinced that there are scores of people that do not want to intrude but who are keeping you in their prayers. People whom you have never met.
To Molly: God must have some incredible plans for your life to have put you through this test of spirit and strength. Keep fighting and one day you will know.
Oh Denver Bob you are good medicine! I am thankful for your laughter for the Bloom's and for the rest of us! Keep it coming!And Bloom's I am ever so thankful for your updates and inspiration. A young mother from my church whom I never thought really knew me...I mean we have spoken of our children and etc. but just distantly...is moving away to Vermont,anyways she just wanted to make sure that I knew that I was a big inspiration and motivator to her through my tragedy with my son. I can't begin to tell you how much that meant to me. I didn't realize I guess that I gave people hope through my storms! So know Bernie...just know in your heart that we are all pulling for you and yours and I know in my heart that it is hard but we can overcome all our adversities...we are champions! Love and Prayers! Allegheny's Mt.'s MOM!
Dear Blooms:
Glad to hear that Molly continues to improve. I am sure that you will all be glad to be back home together soon. Thanks again for all of your updates.
The Fruhwirths
Loren, Jill, Jeff and Jessica
Hey Molly:Sounds like your moving right along. Well done.Keep on keeping on.Ya know I'm pulling for ya.Your inspirational in a way that can't be measured. Sometimes I get down about my injuries but then I see others injuries and realize that I really dont have it so bad. I've been following your situation since it first appeared in the news last spring and think,man, there's a person with a will of steel. Keep going Molly, keep going.
My four year old just woke up crying . She has growing pains really bad. I give her Tylenol and rub her leg. Her pain makes me so sad. I can't imagine how you feel about your daughters pain. My hearts breaks for all of you.
Our family will continue with our prayers for your family!!!!
Hi,
That "worry" stuff we mom's do so well must go with the job description.
I worry too much. I wish I could put bubble-wrap around my kids every time they leave the house.
My mom said she'd say a prayer every time my brother took off on his motorcycle...
She said even more prayers, when he went through his skydiving, hang-gliding, and extreme skiing phases.
He's well (now age 52), and just a little worn from all the intensity.
God Bless you and
keep you comfortable
during this period of
healing...
Leigh
Mom-at-Large
Centennial
Glad to hear that Molly is improving. Sounds like there is no stopping her. Sounds like she is a very determined young lady that wants to get home as soon as she can.
We keep you all in our thoughts and prayers daily. Praying for you in Texas.
I am a relative newcomer to this story, and have so many unanswered questions about the circumstances..
Was anyone else hurt? Was Molly's dress caught in the door of the limo? Were there others who saw what happened? Where was Molly's date, and was he able to try to help Molly, or did it all just happen too fast? Were there some people already in the limo, or was Molly the first to be getting in? Did the wheels of the limo run over Molly? What does she remember of the accident? Was she alert in the ambulance? I don't know why I am so concerned with the details. I keep wanting a "do-over" in my mind, as I am sure everyone else involved does. I would love to see more photos of Molly. Did she have any taken that night of the prom? Regardless of the circumstances, I will continue to be prayerful for Molly and all those who love her.
It is very painful for the family to be faced with these questions. However, there is a list of news sources at the right side of the web page for you to check out the information that has been made available.
Dear Bloom Family,
It is Wed am and I hope that all is as well as can be expected. I continue to pray for all of you! I also continue to ask everyone else for prayer for you! My new young friend whom has the same disease as my son had some tests done yesterday and our prayers for her were heard. She got much better news than we ever anticipated.WHEW!WHEW! I am sure that a lot of your prayers have been heard too! You all are still going forward and that in itself is a real blessing!As I start my day, and everyday,I thank God for what is...even though it could be better...it could be worse! I remember all to well complaining about our small room and then seeing ICU moms carrying their belongings to the shower room and everywhere they went because they didn't have a room...they had a chair next to their childs bed. Oh how thankful I quickly became of our small room and my delapidated pull out chair-cot! I remember complaining about the food until my son could no longer swallow his own spit and had to be suctioned.I remember complaining about the stupidest stuff! Now I am so thankful for every day I have in my humble home with my beautiful children and wonderful husband! I am thankful that we are able to work again and able to strive and survive in spite of this darn disease! I am so darn proud of my family! This will be you again too! Very soon! As always you are in my thoughts and prayers! BELIEVE! Love,Allegheny Mt.'s Mom
Molly and family,
I am a Denver teacher. I've prayed for you and your family this summer every time I've driven by East High School, when I see a school bus, when I pick up my mail. I'm thinking this time of watching friends go off to school, etc., might be kind of hard and wanted you to know thatmyself, and lots of other folks are praying strength, hope, peace, and joy for you and your family, also for your continued recovery. I'm looking forward to the day (January? next August?) when I check this blog, or read in the paper, or see in the news, that you have gone off to school. I know that's coming!!!Hang in there!
To Molly's Friends and Classmates:
It's time for us to pack our belongings for college and bid farewell to our families. Let's let Molly know that she is in our thoughts by sending her college t-shirts from the schools we'll be attending!! This way she'll have a collection of shirts from all over the country. Plus, know that she is in our prayers.
On the days when you don't write, I believe that you are taking care of yourself, that you are protecting your own and your family's privacy, that you are doing everything that you can and need to do.
On the days when you don't write, you are still in my thoughts and I am grateful for the way that you have united so many people in tenderness and hope.
Someday you will stop this writing and turn to other things and what you have done here will have blessed us all.
Thank you.
Hello Molly,
How are you doing today? I have not written, but that does not mean that I have not been thinking about you and your family and hoping you are doing well! :) I hope you are doing great since your families last entry. I am going to NYC this weekend, and I am going to get you a postcard, so keep an eye out for it! I am sure you would love to get one from "The Big Apple" A lot of us pray for you here, I am sure of it! I am thinking of you, and wishing you well.
I also wanted to tell you that when I was younger, I broke my neck in a car accident, and writing to you has prompted me to contact the person I was in that accident with. Reconnecting with them has been great! We are even able to LAUGH about it. Unbelievable now that we can...Never thought that would happen.
Smiles and Laughter,
Annie Horsky
Long Island, NY
Dearest Bloom's!,
Almost a week since we have heard from you! I pray that means that you are all going forward and have just not had the time to write! I had a defining moment yesterday...I was going through stuff to organize and hopefully finally really have a place for everything and everything in its place.LOL! But I came across ,in a huge wicker basket with all the newspaper articles that I clipped on my children and photos from the past couple years , pictures of my son and our family through his worst lapse...I forgot how bad it was! Wow! Forgot!! Though he is still left with many many scars where his skin was eaten and torn...I forgot how terrible he looked and how the rest of us looked like zombies...I have to admit...I fell apart for a bit! I forgot how really awful our lives were! I forgot that we almost lost him! Ten months we endured so much doom and gloom! Still we have no idea what this disease may do or what all the medicine will do and is doing! But I forgot!!! As I pray for you and your tough times...I also pray that you will forget! I pray that once the wounds are healed and that once you are walking and planning to go off to College that you really forget! Because it is such a peaceful place to be! I pray for you and your family to really find that peace! I thought I was still stuck and still not where I needed to be in this life...but yesterday showed me that Life does go on and how you live it is really a choice! Though I fall once in awhile...oh how thankful that I don't stay down! I do have a very strong empathy for you all! My son was well on his way to a full sports scholarship and probably an ROTC but this disease took that from him...did he lay there and give up?No he took a new path! God also blessed him with a good brain! He chose to focus on what he still had...he is going to college for pre-med and mostly on acedemic scholarships! Does he hide his scars" No he wears white wife beaters to show off his tan the doctor told him he could not get.When he finally made it back to sports did he give up when the coaches were ignorant and left him on the bench? No he worked harder at practice and swallowed hard and gave his coaches respect they did not give him! When kids were cruel and said mean hatefull things did he beg to stay home...no he dished it right back but with a sarcasm that left them standing alone! Molly I believe from all that your mom says...you have that same stamina and you are going to beat this! When God closes one door he opens many more! Your doors have just begun opening! Let the SUN shine in! and warm you deep down inside and spread your joy! I pray today for a challenging but very theraputic physical therapy! I hope you have a physical therapist like my son...he was awesome not to mention he was hot! He came clear to our little town to watch our son play football his Sr. year and we keep in touch and see him every check up at Childrens Hosp.three hours away! We even call him "HOT Matt" I pray you have wonderful nurses and meet other wonderful families! I pray that for every sad moment you get three happy ones! I pray you come out of this as well as we have ! We are really blessed and I know you are too! Do I need to mention I am never at a loss for words...didn't think so...on that note...Love to you all! Allegheny's Mom
Dear Bloom Family ~
I continue to check every day to see how Molly is doing just as I have every day since the first day you posted here. I miss not hearing an update, but I just keep praying for you all and hope that Molly is continuing to progress well. You have been in my thoughts and prayers an extra amount recently as you have spent the whole summer in the hospital as we all did our summer things out here in the sun ... and now Molly's classmates are going off to college and East kids begin again on Monday and Tuesday and those of us who are teachers are heading back to school again ... and you are still there at the hospital. That's a hard one on top of all the many, many hard ones you've already experienced. Please know that although the rest of us out here seem to be going on with our lives YOU (Molly, Bernie, Bob and Katy)are still very much in our hearts on a daily basis. Every day I pray for my own family, my own children that do not live at home anymore and Molly and the Bloom family. You have become a part of my family. Hang in there. Molly will have her end-of-the-summer heading off to college in the not to far distant future. Now I'm guessing you just can't wait to take the next step of bringing her home. Are you needing some help getting the house ready for that? Please let us know here or at East if people could help you in some way ... because we would LOVE to help. Keep us posted. I love you Bloom family! God bless.
Dear Molly and Family,
It is so inspiring to hear a story such as yours. Hang tough and someday because you hung in there you will be able to hang loose and forget about it for awhile. Keep up the hard work and remember that you are making progress no matter how small!!
Hello Molly and family,
I am making my 3rd attempt at writing on your site so I hope you get this.
I heard some new inspiring words for ya. God doesn't call the equipped- he equips the called. I will forward the rest to your moms email. Keep up the hard work and keep up that beautiful smile and those occasional temper tantrums we talked about. I just had one the other day, felt great. Love you all Jeanette and family
Hi we finally made it to your website after many failed attemps by Jeanette (Brian had to rescue her). We just wanted to say hello to you guys and let you know that we are always thinking and praying about Molly and all of you. We miss the staff and all of Chelsey's friends up at Childrens, but it is good to be at home. Even though it is often much harder because you don't have nurses and other staff 24 hours a day to help out, at the end of the day it is good to be at home all under one roof. So tell Molly to keep fighting hard to get home where she belongs. Take care and God Bless,
Jeanette, Brian, and Chelsey Montoya
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