22 Days: When the storm I thought would kill me, healed me

By Shanetta Nichols

I had buried my past and moved on with my life. Pushing hard every day to raise my kids in a healthier home than how I was raised. Life for me as a child wasn't the best yet I got through it. I saw a lot growing up as a child but had buried it over the years. I had gotten involved in a unhealthy relationship that ended in violence. I knew it was time to seek some help. Trying to find the reason for me continuously getting involved in the same relationships. She helped me to dig into a lot of the buried pain that had come from my childhood.Nevertheless I understood that in order for me to live a better life I would have to do some major changes in my life but it was still something that kept holding me back from making the necessary steps. My kids was my life. Striving daily to be a better mother, supporting them in all their activities. At the time I had my son who is my oldest in college, my oldest daughter was a senior in High School also she one of the fastest runners in track, and baby girl was in the eighth grade at middle school. Everything seem to be getting better for me until two months before my oldest daughter was going to graduate she was involved in a car accident. When the doctors came out and told me that she had a fractured skull. I thought my world was coming to an end. Those I thought was some of the worst days. As none of the doctors could tell me how long she was going to be in that state. When she finally came out of the coma twelve days later she couldn't walk, her maturity level had decrease mentally and the left side of her face was slumped. My world seem to be in such a mess. Wanting so badly for everything to go back to normal quickly.Twenty two days later she was released. That is when I found out that same girl before the accident never came back home from the accident. Before we left the hospital they gave me a six month expiration date to regain most of her memory back. I went into panic mode trying to help her get back too normal to finding out it wasn't one battle but two. Those hidden scars that was buried inside of me had scared my kids as well.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 179274529X
• ISBN13: 9781792745294
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 137 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 0.3" x 7.0"