A tragedy tonight shown me that I have found a keeper posted 6/12/2008 2:36:30 AM | 9 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: family, dating

cartay25

I have been absent for a few days and for a better reason than last time. I have met someone and have spent most of the last 4 days with him. He is a friend of the friends that I live with and I had met him a couple of times here at the house. Last Saturday he asked them to bring me along when they went out so we could get to know each other a little better. Looks like it worked. If we aren't together we are texting each other or talking on the phone. He is such a gentle person with a heart of gold and I think he has fallen hard for me already.

He is a truck driver and today he had to go early in the morning to pick up a load west of here and then come back thru to deliver it east of here. He called to see if I could meet him and give him a ride to his house so he could shower and get some of his things........and because he wanted to see me since he won't be back until late tomorrow. Isn't he sweet????? So I borrowed my friends car and went.

On my way to pick him up my phone rang, it was my son. He called to tell me that my niece had overdosed on her step dad's heart medication and they were calling for life flight to rush her to a major hospital. She is only 15........I still don't know what caused her to do it. By the time I got to the truck I was a mess. He climbed out of the truck and I went to him sobbing. He stood there in the parking lot holding me and tried to calm me down so I could tell him what was wrong and then held me some more and just let me cry. We drove to his house and while he showered I called to find out what was going on and they had no news.

When I took him back to the truck he made sure I had cash in case I had to get to my sister and niece and made me promise to call him with any news. He sent me 3 text messages asking how I was doing and telling me to keep the faith that she would be fine.

I finally got to talk to my sister, the med's my niece took is supposed to slow rapid heart rates, with a normal heart rate it makes the heart stop. They gave her 8 doses of a medication to try to counteract what she had taken but the doctors said that too much of it had already gotten thru and poisoned her system. They have her in ICU right now and said she is stable and should be fine. I know that I will feel much better when they call later to say that she is definitely going to be fine. She is in the hospital 45 miles from here but I have no car of my own to get there so I am stuck here waiting for the phone to ring. She remained awake and told her mom right before the helicopter arrived that she had changed her mind and didn't want to die......she said "I'm tough, I'll be alright". Thank God for the miracle tonight and I still have my niece. We may have to wait a while to know if there are going to be any lasting affects from this but she survived.

When I called my man to tell him the good news I got upset again and he kept me on the phone for over a half hour to make sure that I was okay and then told me to call him if I woke up tonight and just wanted to talk. He also said he is going to take me to Chicago for the weekend in a couple of weeks to get me away from the house for a while and give me a chance to relax. If he's not a keeper I don't know who would be.

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