Trauma Room

 While I lay there in the hospital bed I could hear the doctor and nurses calling off all my injuries and I could not believe how many.   I guess I just never realized how much damage Josh had done.   I had swollen legs with multiple open wounds. They were so swollen they thought they were broken.  However they were not.   I had a large hole in my right shoulder and another wound on my left shoulder.  My pinky on my right hand was cut open. My face was bruised and I had two black eyes that were healing.  I also had multiple broken ribs.  As the doctor and nurses named injuries I told them my head was killing me.  The doctor looked at my head and couldn't believe the damage. I had grown my hair to halfway down my back.  The doctor told me he would have to shave my head completely.  I was so upset but knew it had to be done.  As they shaved it I could feel the electric razor touch my head wound and it hurt so bad.   They got my injuries sorted out and got me in a room finally.  An adult human body should have over 1 gallon of blood in it but I was down to 3 pints of blood in mine.   The doctors and nurses said I shouldn't even be alive let alone talking and telling everyone what had happened.

      It wasn't very long before the Van Zandt county investigators were there to question me.  I told them everything Josh had done and where they could find weapons he had used on to hurt me.  I told them they would find blood on the walls and the end of the baseball bat.  They just looked at me like they thought I was talking out of my head.  I also told them Josh always said if I left he would find me and kill me.   He had also told me if he killed me no one would find my body or him because he knew people that would help him hide.   They asked if I wanted to contact anyone and I said I didn't know how to get on touch with my family.   I told them I wanted my mom there and all I knew was she lived in Grand Saline.  They were able to find out where she lived and send officers to her RV she was staying in.   

      Mom said she heard a knock at the door and asked who it was.  They told her they were police officers.  She opened the door and asked her if she had a daughter named Lisa Holden.  She said yes.  They said well shes in the hospital and shes asking for you.  She said what has Josh done to her.  I am laying there in the hospital and all I am thinking is I am going to go through this alone because I haven't been in touch with my family in years.  It seemed like a couple hours went by and then I heard someone outside my room    The hospital had officers stationed outside my room for protection and they wouldn't allow anyone in that they didn't ID first.  The next thing I knew my room door opened and an angel walked in.  Well in my eyes she was an angel and I felt like I was not going to be alone.  My mom was here with me.  She said they told her before she came in that I was in really bad shape and to be prepared.  She walked in and looked at me and she just burst into tears.  She came over and hugged me and I knew God had brought her back to me.  I was so elated she was there and blessed that I was not going to be alone fighting back from my injuries.  

Come back to hear how the next 21 days in the hospital went.  

God Bless