Sifting through the ashes…
It’s been a really rough past couple of days with lots of ups and downs and even more downs…
OUR lives have been turned upside down…
On Sunday morning our families were going out on the lake to go tubing and waterskiing. After fueling the boat at the dock, we went to start the engine and the engine literally blew up! It was a horrific explosion that literally burned whatever was closest to it. We had our families on the boat excited for a day on the lake and it turned into a horrible nightmare that we could not wake up from. Our bodies were engulfed with fire as we panicked to get the kids off the boat and into the water as fast as we could. Our boys were in a state of shock as they looked at everyone around them with fire all over their bodies and their sensitive skin ablaze! Even after we were in the water… the fire had already burned our skin right off of our bodies. We laid on the grass afterwards screaming in pain, scared, hurting, worried about our boys, worried about our wives, praying for help and hoping and praying that everything would be okay. All we wanted was to be close to our babies…
When the firefighters got there, they immediately started helping us, but by that time the fire had already done it’s damage. our skin was gone and the pain was unbearable. Their Hero like instincts gave us incredible care and their wisdom of words gave us hope as our bodies were just shaking in a state of shock. We were SO HAPPY to see these men! They literally looked like angels in such a dark time. As soon as the ambulances arrived we were immediately taken to the hospital, Dustin and his son were burnt so bad that they had to airlift him to the burn center to get immediate care.
The nurses and doctors have been amazing! They quickly helped us in the state of crisis. They were brilliant and we were so thankful that they were keeping us and our children alive. The fierce intensity of pain all over our bodies did not allow us to remember everything. We just knew we were being taken care of… We just wanted to know how our boys were… we felt so helpless and we couldn’t do anything to help. It was horrible. Painful and just an absolute nightmare!
We are scared. We are grateful that we are all alive. We are thankful to the first responders who took care of us and saved us and our sons! We are so thankful for the nursing staff and the doctors who kept us alive and our giving us the best of care. We are worried about how we are going to get thru this. We have been told that we will be in the hospital until the end of September, maybe October.
We are now sifting through the ashes… trying to make sense of it all. Trying to heal so we can get back to normal… hoping we can get back to work so that we can take care of our families… hoping and praying that our sons will be normal that the burns do not scar them for life. We just want the best for our family and we are so so sad.
Thank you for being apart of our life! Thank you for your love and support. Our phones have been ringing off the hook with text, calls and you have brought so much light to us in this time via all of your comments on facebook and instagram from all of you and we thank you for your love! Thank you!
Our immediate goals are to take care of ourselves and get better as soon as we can so that we can start taking care of our sons!
We plan on having this website as a place where you can come and read so that you can walk this journey along with us… if you would like. We would like to update you daily with what is happening, however things are so uncertain at this time we will do our best to update…
Again, thank you…. so much!!!!
We feel so loved in this time of darkness and uncertainty.
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