The Accident...

   On Monday, March 15, 2010 at around 8:30 in the morning, Priscilla was in a car accident. Scilla was on her way returning home from getting her braids "touched up" when the accident occurs. I have not been able to get the exact details, so I will give them to you as they have been given to me from her, my mom, and Emergency personnel. So this is what we know...
   Scilla was traveling home on highway 107, Mauldin Rd. back towards The Woodruff rd. area when the accident occured. According to the only witness she was traveling on Mauldin rd., just in the area around the water plant when he noticed her slumped over in the car. The witness thought she was asleep and attempted to blow the horn to get her attention. After blowing for steadily he noticed the car veering towards the curb, at which point it began to spin, and he backed off and dialed 9-1-1, noticing the brake lights were not on and something was obviously wrong. After about 5 spins, the car went over an embankment and at that point it slammed into a tree.
    When emergency officials arrived, they lifted her from the car. Once in the ambulance, the paramedic used her cell phone to call my mom's cell phone. My mom didn't answer, but immediately returned the call and thought someone was playing on her phone; Scilla had to actually get on the phone and say to my mom she had been in accident. The paramedic told my mom, Scilla had been and an accident and it appeared she was paralyzed. My mother immediately left work and beat the paramedics to the hospital. On her way to the hospital my mom called my younger sister and I and told us to meet her at the hospital, but drive safely ( I will post my reaction in the next post).Once at the hopsital, my mom impatiently waited on the ambulance to arrive. Once the ambulance arrived, they took my mom back to a room, which was frightening; by this time my 2 sisters, niece and Scilla's son, A.D. and I had arrived. My mom immeditately began to call her prayer "warriors" for intercessory prayer. While waiting in the room, we were all trying to get in touch with her husband, Greg, who did not know of the accident yet. We tried calling all the phones he had and even nieghbors, but could not reach him, so finally I said lets call a family friend that lives on my street to run to her house and make him aware.
    Finally, the nurse and Doctor comes in and says, Priscilla's back is SEVERELY broken and everyone into tears and while crying, all I could do was call on the name of Jesus. So after the hearing the news, we decided I should go get Scilla's daughter, Shakelle from school...

* Why the other driver could not get Scilla's attention *
           Although I have personally known my sister to take a nod while driving, this was not the case in her accident. Priscilla has well controlled diabetes and had not had any problems with it lately. She has gone from having an insulin pump to pills, a great improvement. Her Husband, Greg last recalls her taking medicine on Sunday night, March 14 and Sunday was also the last time she had eaten. With that said, I and some medical officials believed her blood sugar levels dropped to drastically low levels causing her to pass out, I also think that fact that she has a lapband and eat such small portions and hadn't ate breakfast, that her body was hungry and from personal experience with bypass surgery, I know sometimes you are hungry, but don't think you are and can get so weak to the point of feeling faint.
            Priscilla really doesn't recall the details of the accident, but says she was awake, but I do not think that it so for twol reasons :

   1. According to the witness, he did not witness her put on brakes or the brake lights come on at any point
        during the accident.
  
   2. She didn't have the natural reaction that most do, which would be to brace themselves for the impact, which
        if she had, her back may not be as severely broken from her body uncontrollably flailing in the front seat of
        the car.