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Worst Day of my life
I would have to say that the worst day of my life was February 14th, 2005. This is the day that I rolled my bronco on the corner of 5th and Cody road heading back to Palmer from Saint Libory. The day started out crappy so I should of figured that something bad would turn out at the end. Of course I went to school in the morning did my studies trying to keep my grades up like a good kid and eighth hour rolls around and I go home to babysit for careers. I get to my grandmas and I try to call my mom to let her know that I need to run to Saint Libory to drop some boxes off at my Grandma and Grandpa Earls house. But to the best of my luck she doesn’t answer because she’s in class. She’s going to school to become a full time dispatcher at the Merrick County Sheriffs Office in Central City. So I ask permission from my Grandma Cernik and she says yes.
Later I load up the boxes into my bronco and head out to the local school to pick my sister up and head over to Saint Libory. We leave out of town and start going down worms road just talking enjoying each others presence. Soon we are in Saint Libory we drive by grandma and grandpa’s house and don’t see any vehicles. So we head back out of town and we get up on the corner where there have been people killed at before. I start slowing down and downshifting because I get lightheaded and soon become dizzy. I hit a soft spot at the side of the road and we go into the ditch, I thought we were alight but then we rolled, twice, and we land on the top of the bronco. Everything ok though we are both alive an we crawl out the Passenger side door. On my side of the car the ceiling is smashing me down, my sisters pulling on my seat trying to get me free and suddenly I fall out of the seat and crawl out her door. We were both really worked up. We sit on the side of the road and wait.
Later this older lady stops and we ask her if she has a cell phone that we can borrow. She replied with a no but says that her neighbor is behind her and would be coming shortly and they would let us use theirs. Soon comes this pickup with two nice strangers. Neither of us having ever seen them before we get scared and would rather not talk to them. But we ask if we can use their phone, they let us then we call our grandma who informs our mom. Later Tonya Moody drives by she stops and we wait with her till our grandparents arrive. Soon my grandma, grandpa, and my cousin Bob arrive and they call the cops and ambulance. The ambulance gets here they take me in and they hook me up to oxygen. My mom comes running into the ambulance crying saying I thought you were dead because the bronco looks so bad. She was really happy we were alive. On the other hand the bronco, well, its totaled.
Soon after my mom came here was Brayden and Tyler, both who are good friends of mine, show up and talk to me and calm me down. I hug Brayden I thought I was gonna die but I thought of him and somehow I lived. We were really lucky that we did surrive as we were told by the EMT’s. We all load up in my mom’s car and head back to Palmer. I was so terrified of her driving though that its not even funny. We get to my house I walk inside and here were roses, and a plush dog from Brayden. He made my night just a little bit better. So hopefully everyone had a better valentines day then me. Although it wouldn’t take to much.
Love Always,
Racheal Cernik
