| Yes, it puts things in perspective VERY fast. We had just finished traveling to 8 auditions and thought we'd be in a nice holding pattern with college stuff and then this happened. My D was very very lucky to not be dead considering the nature of this accident. However, clinging to machines in intensive care is not anything I ever want to go through watching again for as long as I live and not knowing what would be and all that. Also, she is a dancer and had also fractured her hip and now has five metal screws in it. There were lots of scary moments during this experience and a major recovery of six months, just in time to go to college and also luckily having gotten to do all the auditions. She got accepted to NYU while hooked up to all sorts of stuff and on morphine in the hospital and cried for joy. It was the best medicine of all. Thankfully, she has made a full recovery and so the joy of getting into a dream school, along with other schools, was a happy experience at the right time but truthfully, just surviving was where it was at. However, now seeing her on stage, as I did this past weekend, and knowing what could have been (as it has turned out for others in the severity of the kind of crash she had) is chilling and makes one just feel very lucky to have a child who is living. The college acceptances and casting and other stuff is very exciting but in the end, survival is way bigger in the scheme of things. So, for all who wait out college decisions, yes, it is difficult but it really is not THAT big in the scheme of life. It feels big while immersed in it but it is rather small and things do have a way of working out. Try to keep perspective. I sure know that my perspective has been forever altered by this terrifying experience for my child. Try to enjoy this waiting period, as nervous and anxious as you may be. At least you are alive and kicking and not in terrible pain. Surviving the wait is not that bad. |