As I begin work on a new unrelated old barns blog the stats on Carol's blog are still there in the account and I see that 25 people have clicked-in in the past month, so I'll provide an update. I haven't visited the blog in quite a while. Thanks to anyone still staying in touch on it.

Carol has ended up pretty darned good as things end up after all she went through. We are blessed to be able to tell the story about her wreck January 7, 2012 with her still being here with us. So many families have such harder stories to tell as they've lost family members to similar circumstances -- but we got lucky. And the guy that hit her still has five more years in prison for it.

All is well with Carol and the hard times of her recovery have passed. She is back to an active lifestyle and while it seems there might always be some kind of a twinge for her from the trauma her body suffered, we have nothing but to celebrate and be happy about her survival.

Husband Butch is functioning but continues to be nagged by his crushed ankle and it's obvious that it will be a factor for him and us forever. Modern medicine helps, but that story continues and will go on for a while. More later on it all as time passes.

I was pleasantly surprised to see that all of the original blog posts from Carol's blog are still saved and available, so if you hear of any other families who are challenged with their own traumas feel free to pass the blog along to them to show them how things can work out for the best, although let me clear that through Carol first before you do that -- more later on it.

Otherwise, if you'd like to visit the new old barns blog I mentioned you can find it at the following link and feel free to pass it along and remember, if you weren't born or conceived in a barn, some of your ancestors probably were!

http://americanbarnstoriesonline.blogspot.com/

All the best,

          Tom