Sandra Laliberte s_laliberte_2001@yahoo.com

I wanted to write to thank everyone for all the support I and the rest of my family received after my daughter's horrific car accident.

Melissa is alive and I have realised over the past few weeks that having your child that severely injured is one of the worst things to go through.

The implants and Dow and anything related to it means nothing to something like this it has made me think a lot.

Melissa will heal with time and her neck will require a few months. She will need two more surgeries down the road and her lungs are almost healed the right lung still has quite a bit of bruising and some fluid but the holes are repaired and they are no longer collapsed.

This Christmas means nothing to me all that matters to me is Melissa and her recuperating.

This has taken so much out of me and I still can't sleep I know she is alive but I keep thinking about what did she go through in that car and I burst into tears thinking about it.

I shouldn't be doing this but I am it saddens me a great deal to think she would of suffered waiting for help to arrive. I feel alot of guilt being in the states when it happened and not getting back till that night but I guess that is normal.

I do truly though from the bottom of my heart thank everyone for his or her kind words and support.

Have a Merry Christmas and I will come back online after the New Year sometime.

Sandra