Hestia's Homeschool

As a half-serious joke, a friend of mine once told me that my Cherokee name would be translated to mean She Who Remembers Sad Things.  LOL  It is true that I often feel a responsibility to spread information that I think may help save a child's life.  After all those years volunteering with the Miscarriage and infant loss groups, I have heard some really sad, preventable deaths.

A local toddler fell from a three story window yesterday. Fortunately some shrubs help break his fall, but he is injured. I always think of the loss of Eric Clapton's son when I hear these stories.  My house windows are kept locked. We have three full stories and another child fell to her death three houses down (fifty years ago).

An eleven year old was riding a lawn tractor  cutting his grass.  His four year old brother was running and chasing him, and the tractor cut off his foot. The child is at Cincinnati Children's hospital.

One of the off-AOL blogs had a homeschooling mother whose Puli Dog, recently adopted, attacked her infant. The dog had her baby's head in its jaw and was shaking it. Please pray for this baby.

When I was at the Grief groups, there was a couple who had two of their triplets killed when the children toppled a dresser over onto them and smothered them. The parents thought they were napping.

Another family left one of their twins to sleep overnight in a stroller. The child became entangled in the stroller and suffocated.

I realize that for the grace of God there go I.  My children have done some terribly dangerous things and have somehow survived. I am humbled.

Hungarian Puli Dog

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• #3 Comment from wallydancingdog 
  5/21/05 2:33 PM | Permalink

  you know, i was once in a conversation with some friends.we determined that not one of us would have survived childhood, had we been born 100 years ago.we had appendicitis, runaway horses, falls from trees, fire , coomon illnesses that are nothing to treat today. my point being, we don't know what role we have to play in this life. but when god calls us home, then our time here is done.and whatever role we have has played out. do you think maybe that your role is as a nurturer? that part is obvious- but there is more... with the tragedies you have undergone, u are enabled with the empathy to understand the effects of grief,the ways of life and death. this i believe makes you much more capable to help those who need u most. you are a good woman.. your family is proud of you. and i enjoy reading your words. thank you dear lady.
                     wally obrien
• #2 Comment from my78novata 
  5/18/05 8:46 PM | Permalink

  OH my how sasd these things are. Today at School whre Tracy teaches a little girl stuck her hand int he bathroom door as it was closing nad it nearly cut her finger off. SO sad.
• #1 Comment from yankeygr 
  5/18/05 5:13 PM | Permalink

  I dont know how you could survive a loss like that! I've also been very blessed. I have 3 sons, two of which are twins, and they really scared me to tears many times. But now their all grown up and guess what! Their still scaring me to death! Does it ever end?