We are a Very Lucky Family

At 6 am Easter morn we received a phone call telling us that our Freddy was in a serious car accident on the Roosevelt Blvd. It is one of the worst call any parent could ever receive. Luckilly my dear friend Anne Marie was the one that called us - so within seconds she was able to tell us that he would be alright. We were scared to death. We flew down to Temple Hospital where we picked him up. It turns out Freddy has a broken hand - with two broken bones being tangled around each other. We are heading out to the specialist this afternoon where we will be able to get more information on his condition. Freddy and his friends that were in the car were very lucky to have walked away from the accident with the injuries they incurred. Sal received 35 stitches in his mouth and Mongo's ear was all ripped up - but he was ok.

As we were driving to the hospital a million scenarios were going through my head. We weren't really sure what was wrong at this point so all I kept thinking of was Dominic is going to be so upset that he can't be here for his brother. Without seeing Freddy and knowing how serious things were, I just kept wondering what I was going to tell Dom without making him be so upset when he is so many miles away. This was Dominic's main concern before he left you know. He asked me many times what would happen if something bad happened to someone in the family - how we he get to us.

Ironically after we got home, within 10 minutes Dominic text us to say Happy Easter. Of course, even though Freddy was home with us, I still didn't want to tell him, because I knew he would be upset. As much as I wanted to say nothing - I made him a promise before he left. He asked that if anything were to go wrong with anyone, we have to be honest with him and let him know right away. Although I promised him, I knew he still didn't have faith in my promise - as 2 years ago I had let him down after making this same promise. I will never live that lie down.

When Fred found out he had cancer, we didn't tell my sons for about 5 days. They knew something was wrong but we beat all around the bush before we could bring ourselves to tell them this devastating news. When we finally told them they were so upset that we didn't share the news with them immediately. They both felt let down because we didn't have enough faith in them. Do you know, even though we knew our sons were upset, there were still many times that followed that we tried to protect them from his serious conditions and treatments. Even though they were young men, we found it hard to break such sad news to them. We always tried to sugarcoat things to protect their hearts. I know that we have scarred them from thinking we can be honest with them. I swear we couldn't help it while we were doing it.

Anyway this is what made me tell Dom immediately what happened with Freddy. I emailed him the pictures of the car and we talk in length about everything. I text him that I know he is a brave man now - so I hope he believes that from here on in I will always be honest with him. He believed me, thank God. He handled everything well, because he knows Freddy will be fine.

We were hosting the Easter Party for my family so I had to follow thru since we had all the food at our house! We actually got in 1 hour before everyone arrived. We planned that they would just have let themselves in if we weren't home yet, since everything was all ready to go! Although I was so happy my family was with me now, I couldn't help but think what a horrible Easter this was for me. Although I feel blessed Freddy was fine and that everyone in my family was together - I hated that Dominic wasn't with us and that I still was shaken from the horrible call I received that Easter Morn. But all in all - we are a very lucky family.