Our winner
this month is Michelle from Iowa. Michelle shares her story about
helping others out with 30 Day Gourmet.
There is a new guy that
started working with my husband, his name is Dave. Dave and his
family recently moved to our state from
Indiana
so they do not have family here. Just a few new found buddies, mainly
the people Dave works with. Dave’s wife, Tracey, and their 3 kids
were in a terrible car accident. The guy driving the other vehicle
was the cause of the accident. He had a heart attack while going
through his red light. He ended up dying, not only because of his
heart attack, but because he was ejected out through the windshield.
He was not wearing a seat belt. I feel bad for that guy, having to
die in such a brutal way.
Well anyways, he hit
Tracey’s vehicle, t-boned them on the driver’s side. Tracey took the
brunt of the hit. She ended up with a fractured neck, broken pelvis
in multiple places, and some internal injuries. Dave and Tracey’s
oldest daughter was in the front seat with her, she ended up getting
over 30 stitches, and her poor face looked like a pin cushion from all
the flying glass, her right knee also had a gash in it from hitting
the dash, so there are some more stitches. Thank heavens the 2
younger children were in the third seat. Dave had commented if they
were not the one on the drivers side they would have been killed. The
other 2 kids were fine, just shook up. Dave was at work when this
happened. He thought the boys at work were messing with him when he
got the call. They play pranks on each other once in awhile to stay
sane from all the stress. Once he realized what had happened and that
is was true, he immediately went to the hospital where he found his
family in the Emergency Room.
Well with them just moving
here and having no family around, I talked to my husband. He wanted me
to just send flowers. I said no, flowers just die and she can not
enjoy them being in the state she was in. So I suggested I wanted to
make some freezer meals. My husband said that is a stellar idea and
they would be much more appreciated than flowers. I made a total of
10 meals in one day (I was in the kitchen all day, never done any
freezer meals before). Well I work at the hospital that Dave’s wife
is at, so I called him that same afternoon and asked if I could meet
him somewhere. I had a gift for him and his family. Well the next day
I had to work second shift and he was just leaving to go home from the
day of being there. He had his 3 kids with him. I asked him to pull
his vehicle around to my vehicle and so he did. I opened my truck and
there were all the meals. He gave me a big hug and had tears in his
eyes, he said he was so grateful to have met such nice people. He had
tears in his eyes, which of course made me tear up. All the kids said
thank you because they were getting tired of “DAD’S COOKING”. And Dave
also said he was running out of ideas of what to cook, and getting
tired of eating out, and how expensive that was. That moment made me
feel so special and that I have done a great deed for someone in
need.
Since all the meals, I have
seen Dave, he has told a lot of people what I have done. My husbands’
boss heard the story and he was just ecstatic, (the boss is also
Dave’s boss) and wants me to do it again for them, and he wants to pay
for all the ingredients this time.
Tracey on the other hand,
we just found out on Friday, that she has taken the turn for the
worse, she was transferred to University of Iowa Hospital, her blood
is clotting, and they have found clots in her lungs and possibly one
in her brain. When I saw Dave last week he had commented that he is
working on the last couple of meals. So I am going to make more meals
for him and his family.
