July 4, 2008
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The Coltharp Family thanks you for your prayers, love and concern. You have been some of the most significant “pages” in Hillary’s recovery story and journey. We will be forever grateful. The best thing we could offer back to you in a gift of thank you is to show others in the same situation what you did for our family. Trauma cannot be described to anyone who hasn’t experienced it. But tonight, too many people know exactly how our friends feel as they hold the hand of their critically injured son who was in a horrible car accident this morning on his way to work. And in another city, a family we love is by the bedside of their daughter who was severely injured in a bus accident last week on her way to a mission trip in Florida. The thing each family of trauma shares is how perfectly normal life was just minutes before the worst thing in their lives occurred. No one is really prepared. All any of us can do is pray and support each other as you have so amazingly done for our family. And now we ask for your prayers for these and the ones to come.
Due to petition for court order this site will end with an announcement of a new program at Vanderbilt University Medical Center–Trauma Survivors Network– which in many ways has been enhanced and inspired through your loving support of our injured angel. And to be sure, every note, every prayer and every page of this site has been printed and archived by Xanga for our girl to read over and over again. Her story goes on. We thank you for Hillary’s Independence Day as she walked out of her wheelchair and back to her life. Ending this leg of our journey and transitioning pieces of her story to a different place for all trauma survivors only opened our eyes to how far she has come and how much closer to “normal” our lives are now. You have put a family completely back together again.
Thank you for the prayers that bring ordinary miracles for our girl every day.
XOXOXO
–Shawn
Launching this month MyTSN.org
Vanderbilt Trauma Survivors Network
