Dana Daily

Sal, Seth, and I were involved in what could have been a very serious accident. It is only by the grace of God that we walked away unscathed. At about 11:15am we were stopped on a busy, two-lane thoroughfare in our township waiting to turn into the library following swim class. Out of nowhere we felt our car get hit and immediately smelled burning rubber. It turns out a Chevy Equinox, driven by an impaired driver, partially rear-ended/partially sideswiped our Mazda. There are 100 ways in which it could have been worse, but despite having to slide out underneath the side curtain airbag, and get Seth out from the driver's side, we are fine. Our rear passenger tire was blown out, but Sal was able to limp the car into the library driveway. She had semi-pushed us there anyway, and we are very fortunate oncoming traffic was able to stop. We had many witnesses, and so many people stopped to ask if we were okay. I called 911 and the police arrived not long after, along with an ambu...

Well, happy Valentine's Day to us. Today we received notification that Sal is officially on the list for a kidney transplant. This is the necessary next step so I refuse to think beyond that. We do have some friends and family who are interested in being tested as possible donors so we are going to focus on that, for the time being. We had date night a couple weeks ago and went to Wahlburgers and to see 1917 , so we decided to stay in for Valentine's Day. Sal had a chiropractor appointment and stopped at Chick-Fil-A on the way home. It was fun to make it a family holiday.