Comments on: One Second http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/ A Creative Playground by Maria Q. Stultz Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:54:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: Mafe Maria • El Camino de la Muerte http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-2823 Fri, 20 Apr 2007 20:18:33 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-2823 [...] On the brighter side of the story, the views from the road are absolutely gorgeous, and I learned that several locals tired of witnessing the death toll have become human traffic lights, attempting to help drivers go safely through blind turns. Obviously these crazy people traveling every year to bike down the road must love it. Crazy!… Just like Joey requesting permission to mountain bike again. Let me think about it: No. [...] OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] […] On the brighter side of the story, the views from the road are absolutely gorgeous, and I learned that several locals tired of witnessing the death toll have become human traffic lights, attempting to help drivers go safely through blind turns. Obviously these crazy people traveling every year to bike down the road must love it. Crazy!… Just like Joey requesting permission to mountain bike again. Let me think about it: No. […]

]]> OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] by: The pins are out! « Eat at Joe’s http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-380 Sat, 28 Oct 2006 18:50:48 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-380 [...] I spent the next 3 hours in the emergency room with Maria. Taking x-rays, cat-scans, getting stitched and getting cleaned. The ultimate damage was a lot of cuts and scrapes, especially on my face, a 5th metacarpal that had moved to the other side of my hand, and a badly jammed pinky. I lay in bed for a week, clearing the cobwebs out of my head, and had surgery on my hand on Sept 11. My doc put three pins in my hand to hold that metacarpal in place so that it wouldn’t drift back towards my thumb. [...] OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] […] I spent the next 3 hours in the emergency room with Maria. Taking x-rays, cat-scans, getting stitched and getting cleaned. The ultimate damage was a lot of cuts and scrapes, especially on my face, a 5th metacarpal that had moved to the other side of my hand, and a badly jammed pinky. I lay in bed for a week, clearing the cobwebs out of my head, and had surgery on my hand on Sept 11. My doc put three pins in my hand to hold that metacarpal in place so that it wouldn’t drift back towards my thumb. […]

]]> OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] by: Maria http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-253 Mon, 11 Sep 2006 04:29:46 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-253 Didn't know that story about your neck, Kim. Sounds awful! OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] Didn’t know that story about your neck, Kim. Sounds awful!

]]> OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] by: Kim Rodriguez http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-251 Sun, 10 Sep 2006 22:41:02 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-251 so glad to hear he's on the mend.....life does have the capacity to change very quickly....having been to the ER MANY times with one child or the other...and having been eerily close to paralysis myself without even knowing it (I walked around for months with a broken neck..my only clue being the numbing of my leg....no accident, no fall...nothing happened, just my neck broke).....I can definitely attest to the power of positive thought and visualization......one can always deal with the BAD NEWS realities when they are just that ---REAL......no need to allow oneself to rehearse the worst case scenarios.....but these little events serve as good reminders of how fragile our security is, how resilient we can be in the face of adversity and how important it is to value the moment....and how important the simple things are.... OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] so glad to hear he’s on the mend…..life does have the capacity to change very quickly….having been to the ER MANY times with one child or the other…and having been eerily close to paralysis myself without even knowing it (I walked around for months with a broken neck..my only clue being the numbing of my leg….no accident, no fall…nothing happened, just my neck broke)…..I can definitely attest to the power of positive thought and visualization……one can always deal with the BAD NEWS realities when they are just that —REAL……no need to allow oneself to rehearse the worst case scenarios…..but these little events serve as good reminders of how fragile our security is, how resilient we can be in the face of adversity and how important it is to value the moment….and how important the simple things are….

]]> OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] by: Maria http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-245 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 15:24:55 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-245 <em>Mandarine</em> Thank you. And yes: be careful when venturing through traffic only protected by your skin. It only takes a second, and a random mistake by any of the drivers, or even you. <em>Petie</em> Losing Joey used to be the biggest fear of my life. Not that I'm cool with it now, and I'm pretty sure it's still the thing I would want the least in my life; I got dibs on dying first, he! he! However, I don't think of it as much as I used to. Maybe just for fear of giving power to the thought. I may sound like a witch, but visualization has often "worked" in my life for the good things I've wanted. Just in case it really works, I try to stop my thoughts and mental images when they start picturing tragedies with color and detail. At the ER, I was very conscious of this... For all I know, as long as nobody has told me positively that something has happened, it hasn't happened in my world. If I can will it to be what I want by just visualizing it, I'll try. That's why when I say "think positive" (for instance, to Pete) I really mean it. <em>About Joey</em> He's really doing great. Lately he's practicing his joke "You should've seen the other guy" to tell friends at school when they see him. That bollo!!! OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] Mandarine
Thank you. And yes: be careful when venturing through traffic only protected by your skin. It only takes a second, and a random mistake by any of the drivers, or even you.

Petie
Losing Joey used to be the biggest fear of my life. Not that I’m cool with it now, and I’m pretty sure it’s still the thing I would want the least in my life; I got dibs on dying first, he! he!

However, I don’t think of it as much as I used to. Maybe just for fear of giving power to the thought. I may sound like a witch, but visualization has often “worked” in my life for the good things I’ve wanted. Just in case it really works, I try to stop my thoughts and mental images when they start picturing tragedies with color and detail. At the ER, I was very conscious of this… For all I know, as long as nobody has told me positively that something has happened, it hasn’t happened in my world. If I can will it to be what I want by just visualizing it, I’ll try. That’s why when I say “think positive” (for instance, to Pete) I really mean it.

About Joey
He’s really doing great. Lately he’s practicing his joke “You should’ve seen the other guy” to tell friends at school when they see him. That bollo!!!

]]> OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] by: Petie http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-244 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:19:28 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-244 From Joan Didion: "Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends." (Taken from the Year of Magical Thinking, I think I'll write a separate blog about this, but it's a very moving book about her husband's death.) Your opening line above reminded me of Joan Didion's quotation. OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] From Joan Didion: “Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends.” (Taken from the Year of Magical Thinking, I think I’ll write a separate blog about this, but it’s a very moving book about her husband’s death.)

Your opening line above reminded me of Joan Didion’s quotation.

]]> OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] by: Petie http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-243 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 13:15:24 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-243 Chris has given me two chances to only slightly relate. Being carried down the mountain in a ski cart and his latest trip to the ER for a kidney stone (at the time we didn't know what was going on!) I can't, however, imagine seeing him strapped to one of those horrific body boards with a neck brace. In neither of these circumstances with Chris did I imagine a life altering change such as paralysis. That's just so horrific. I'm so sorry I couldn't be there, too. Poor, poor Joey and poor Maria to have to be brave. Your story made me cry, too. OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] Chris has given me two chances to only slightly relate. Being carried down the mountain in a ski cart and his latest trip to the ER for a kidney stone (at the time we didn’t know what was going on!)

I can’t, however, imagine seeing him strapped to one of those horrific body boards with a neck brace. In neither of these circumstances with Chris did I imagine a life altering change such as paralysis. That’s just so horrific. I’m so sorry I couldn’t be there, too.

Poor, poor Joey and poor Maria to have to be brave. Your story made me cry, too.

]]> OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] by: mandarine http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-242 Sat, 09 Sep 2006 07:49:28 +0000 http://www.mafemaria.com/2006/09/one-second/#comment-242 How I would dread to have such a thing happen to me or my family ! I have had the same kind of agony and relief recently when I trapped my boy's fingers in the front door (hinge side). It was much shorter than your ordeal (half an hour later, we could not tell which fingers had been hurt), but it allows me to imagine the tension. I ride a bike six hours a week, mostly on cycle lanes, but I sometimes thread my way through the traffic. Although I am a very prudent driver, I confess I can be a fairly reckless rider at times. I guess I will think twice next time. Best wishes of recovery. OjO : [Content from mafemaria.com] How I would dread to have such a thing happen to me or my family !

I have had the same kind of agony and relief recently when I trapped my boy’s fingers in the front door (hinge side). It was much shorter than your ordeal (half an hour later, we could not tell which fingers had been hurt), but it allows me to imagine the tension.

I ride a bike six hours a week, mostly on cycle lanes, but I sometimes thread my way through the traffic. Although I am a very prudent driver, I confess I can be a fairly reckless rider at times. I guess I will think twice next time.

Best wishes of recovery.

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