more healing

The risks for Linda were several.

The big one was that she could cause one of those blood clots to come loose and have a major stroke -- at 14.

She had to limit her activities and let those clots dissolve slowly. She had bicycled 500 miles the year before, Lots of miles in training for each trip, and then she had ridden a 150 miles on this trip. She was in good physical condition, except for her head, which looked OK.

Her arm healed quickly and she looked perfectly normal, but there was that blood clot thing hanging over her head. It took some months for it to heal enough so she could resume an active 14 year old life!

A group of her church friends went out to some sand dunes an hour from our home. They all went and played in the sand and had a great time.

Linda had to stay in the car and watch while her friends have such great fun.

She cried.

I never did blame her for that.

Whenever I think of this story, I am reminded that one of those $30 helmets saved her life. Had she not been wearing a helmet, had she not bothered to fasten it, we would have lost her.

Life hangs by a thread sometimes.