It was in a 110k zone. Trudy and girls survived but unfortunately Jason who was driving lost his life seven hours later. He had been trapped for 3 hours in the car and lost an arm and was given 18 units of blood. Trudy and girls moved back home to us. We actually moved out of our house into the cottage down the back so she and girls have more room.

Lotus had serious head wounds. This is healing well; more surgery is needed later this year. We always have to be very careful she does not get the wound bumped as it is still sensitive after a skin graft.
Lotus herself knows what happened. And she is such a fantastic little trouper. She did regress in age due to the trauma. She is 3 and a half and we started her in Kindergarten recently to help take her mind off things, goes 2 days a week.
Because their daddy worked away from home, he rang every night at 6 and boy did they miss that, Indianna would say ‘daddy’ when the phone rang.
Trudy has had many appointments with drs, chiropractors and Psychologists and she will not drive anymore, therefore her dad or I take her. Usually a 2-3 hrs trip due to living in the country. Our time has not been our own anymore. Life has changed for all of us. Trudy had only made the police accident report about 1 month ago and it was really hard to do and bring it all back to her mind. The driver of the other car had a micro sleep as they call it. Trudy has taken up smoking recently. Not good. She had to stop breast feeding both girls about 2 mths ago as she needed antidepressants that was the hardest thing she has had to do. But the girls coped well. I sent Trudy away for a week to her brothers in Melbourne as this process took place, I slept with the girls and we had a lovely time. You see they have lived with us all but 5 months of their life, Trudy too of course….
They would assume GD and GM would always live with you I guess aren’t we lucky.
Trudy had a lot of anguish with her partner’s family. I won’t go there but they have been a nightmare. They have not rang once to see how the girls are going. It is disgusting. Anyway we don’t worry about them.
Our main focus is the girls. We give them so much love and are there for them at their every whim. Probably making a rod for our back, is that the saying….
The girls will be taken care of financially because the accident occurred as Jason was driving back to work. Trudy and Jason had just spent the last two months closer together as she moved closer to his work and he came home every 2nd weekend. It was such a tragedy we still are trying to cope with it. But life does go on and we are so glad we have the girls as they give us the strength to do so.
Still a long way to go for Trudy. She wants to live with us all the time now.
Trudy’s dad is not too well, and it has been a bit hard looking after everyone but somehow you keep going. I was laid up in bed for 2 days last week with the flu. But ok now. We are all hanging in here and doing the best we can, I have some UFO’s so I look forward to the weekend challenge just to get back into a bit of sewing. I only just got my computer down to the cottage this week, yeah. I had missed it. It was still up the main house. Because I am on broadband satellite I need to get a new lead to make it go faster, we have it on a router at the moment. Anyway that is just a little update.
Sorry in being a bit late in letting you all know how we are going, but I have found it hard to write this actually. But now it’s done.
Love you all, Kerry in Queensland Australia