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It was a fall Friday night\u00a0 during Emma’s junior year in high school.\u00a0 She and friend Ashley Wanger\u00a0 were on their way home.\u00a0 Ashley was driving.\u00a0 Suddenly, from out of\u00a0 nowhere a police car in hot pursuit \u00a0came barreling down the street.\u00a0\u00a0 Traveling eighty to ninety miles an hour, the cops blew through a red\u00a0 light.\u00a0 The squad car’s dash-cam video later showed that the stoplight had\u00a0 been red for at least fifteen seconds\u00a0 \u00a0before the officers reached\u00a0 the intersection.\u00a0 Ashley had the right of way.\u00a0 But that didn’t\u00a0 matter . The final video images are Emma’s face, eyes wide\u00a0 open\u00a0,her hands instinctively rising to her face in horror.<\/span><\/p>\n Mercifully,\u00a0 \u00a0Emma\u00a0doesn’t remember\u00a0 any of this.\u00a0 She remembers\u00a0 her mother dropping\u00a0 her off at Ashley’s home and then waking up in\u00a0 intensive care just before being wheeled into surgery.\u00a0 Friends who saw\u00a0 what happened in between would say it’s a good thing she doesn’t remember.\u00a0\u00a0 They were sure <\/span>both girls would be brought\u00a0 out of the wreckage in body bags.\u00a0 Emma nearly was.<\/span><\/p>\n Miraculously , Ashley\u00a0 suffered only cuts and bruises, but Emma’s injuries \u00a0were another\u00a0 story.\u00a0 The sixteen-year old suffered a shattered \u00a0pelvis, fractures\u00a0 to the tibia, fibula, and ankles, a punctured uterus and fallopian tubes and\u00a0 damage to her ovaries, her bladder and kidney.\u00a0 She\u00a0also had a bruised\u00a0 liver and heart, a perforated diaphragm \u00a0and a collapsed right lung.\u00a0\u00a0 Emma was in hospital for more than a month<\/span>.\u00a0 Once she was able to\u00a0 return, she attended classes in a wheelchair.\u00a0 For a while doctors weren’t\u00a0 sure if Emma would ever walk again.\u00a0 They’s still not certain if she’ll be\u00a0 able to have children.<\/span><\/p>\n ” No one ever\u00a0 told\u00a0 \u00a0me I wouldn’t be able to walk, but that’s\u00a0 what everyone\u00a0 seemed\u00a0 so upset about.\u00a0 If you have a crushed pelvis\u00a0 “she explained” You\u00a0 never hear of anyone recovering all the way from that.\u00a0 So, I just decided\u00a0 that I was going to walk.<\/span><\/p>\n Emma walks with a limp.\u00a0\u00a0 She can’t run or jog, she can’t even stand for a long time\u00a0 Now a college\u00a0 freshman, \u00a0she is thrilled just to be able to sit through all her\u00a0 classes.\u00a0 In the beginning, that simply wasn’t possible.\u00a0 Her right\u00a0 side is atrophied\u00a0\u00a0 from the impact of the crash, which, coupled with\u00a0 an oddly mending pelvis, means that she’s\u00a0 a bit lopsided on her\u00a0 bottom.\u00a0 But Emma’s \u00a0figured out a practical\u00a0way to deal with\u00a0 this “I just put my cell phone in my right butt pocket and even myself\u00a0 out.\u00a0 Nobody notices”<\/span><\/p>\n Her matter-of-retelling of\u00a0 her accident and long road back to health might lead on to believe that she’s\u00a0 naturally optimistic.\u00a0 Don’t be fooled.<\/span><\/p>\n “Funny think about “positive\u00a0 people like that,”\u00a0 she says “They are not really like that.\u00a0 When I\u00a0 was stuck in bed, I knew I would have pain the next day.\u00a0 I was always\u00a0 excited to have visitors come to see me.\u00a0 But then they would leave and I\u00a0 would have a little bit\u00a0 of resentment. You \u00a0know like, you can sit\u00a0 down and then stand up and walk away, And I can’t.\u00a0” Then as if forcibly\u00a0 pushing those negative thoughts out of the room, Emma continues\u00a0 matter-of-factly.<\/span>\u00a0But\u00a0 I attribute\u00a0 that to the numerous painkillers \u00a0I\u00a0was on . They\u00a0 kind of shift your mood around”.<\/span><\/p>\n It’s clear that Emma’s\u00a0 determined mind-set has been a key\u00a0 asset in her recovery\u00a0 She gives a\u00a0 lot of credit to he visitors who came to see her, many of whom she didn’t even\u00a0 know.<\/span><\/p>\n “Lying in bed all day and\u00a0 being in pain, there’s nothing really you can do.\u00a0 They came to just to\u00a0 visit me\u00a0 That kind of stuff really kept me going.\u00a0 Even random\u00a0 people.\u00a0 I had no idea who they were.\u00a0 But they came.\u00a0 In normal\u00a0 life that , that wouldn’t be a big deal-people coming to visit.\u00a0 But, oh no\u00a0 !\u00a0 It was really a big deal”.<\/span><\/p>\n Emma is grateful for one\u00a0 constant during those dark first days: her mom.\u00a0 Mrs. Rothbrust sayed with\u00a0 her daughter round the clock, nursing her, consoling her, counseling\u00a0 \u00a0her.\u00a0 Emmy’s Dad had to work, but he brought breakfast every morning\u00a0 and checked in on Emma each day.\u00a0 Emma \u00a0has tried to let those who\u00a0 came to see her what their gift of time meant\u00a0 to her.<\/span><\/p>\n “Some of those people I have\u00a0 gone back to and said ” Wow, thank you so much for visiting me.\u00a0 I was so\u00a0 bored that day! “<\/span><\/p>\n And , I have tried to add all\u00a0 those people that prayed for me to my prayers.\u00a0 It’s only fair”, she\u00a0 explains.\u00a0 They put all that\u00a0 time<\/span>\u00a0and energy and intense\u00a0 faith into me.\u00a0 They deserve to get it back.”<\/span><\/p>\n What that is, the girl who\u00a0 tried to live right, do no wrong,\u00a0get good grades, and make her parents\u00a0 proud, can’t.\u00a0 A good person before, Emma says she thinks she is now better\u00a0 at helping others.\u00a0 “I think when you suffer a whole lot, you are more in\u00a0 tune with other people and their feelings.\u00a0 I think that this is\u00a0part\u00a0 of God’s purpose, but only not sure , I am only eighteen.”\u00a0 ONLY EIGHTEEN,\u00a0 BUT WISE WAY BEYOND THAT.<\/span><\/p>\n “PRE ACCIDENT,\u00a0I\u00a0 \u00a0WAS A NICE PERSON, FOR SURE”.\u00a0 EMMA TRIES TO ARTICULATE A CERTAIN\u00a0 KNOWING THAT SHE POSSESSSES.\u00a0 “Now I can just see people tell they are upset or in pain.\u00a0 I know that a smile can make you feel\u00a0 better\u00a0 about anything-even if it’s just for that minute.\u00a0 You have\u00a0 that one minute: I feel better. Somebody smiled at me!”\u00a0 She also affirms\u00a0 that reaching out to others when you are hurting yourself \u00a0can have awesome\u00a0 results.\u00a0 “When you are in a bad mood and you see someone else in a bad\u00a0 mood you try to cheer them up, and it ends up cheering you up too”.\u00a0She\u00a0 explains You didn’t even think about that happening.\u00a0 But you shouldn’t\u00a0 help others because you think things will get better for you in the end.\u00a0\u00a0 Selfish acts don’t come back to repay you.\u00a0 Only selfless acts\u00a0 do.”<\/span><\/p>\n Emma is strikingly free of\u00a0 emotional baggage from her accident.\u00a0 She credits\u00a0her faith for\u00a0 that.\u00a0 And she has no rancor towards the police officers responsible for\u00a0 her injuries.\u00a0“They didn’t plan on hurting anybody.\u00a0 But the way <\/span>they did their job could be\u00a0considered \u00a0questionable”<\/span><\/p>\n Meanwhile, \u00a0Emma a\u00a0 linguistics major, says she has a message for anyone who is suffering : “Don’t\u00a0 focus on yourself. Focus on tomorrow and know that no matter what, it will be\u00a0 OK!.\u00a0 Deep living in the moment, and be grateful for the little\u00a0 \u00a0things.\u00a0 For people being there, for the sandwich in front of\u00a0 you.\u00a0 The little things…the little things are best.\u00a0 Focus on the\u00a0 little things and the days will pass until you feel better.\u00a0 The\u00a0\u00a0 THANK YOUS that were once a silly-sweet ritual when she was a girl have been a\u00a0 life preserver \u00a0as the young woman has dealt with challenges that would\u00a0 unravel\u00a0many \u00a0of us.\u00a0 Emma’s faith and her practice of Thank You Power were firmly in place\u00a0 before her automobile accident !<\/span><\/p>\n He is a man of sense who\u00a0 does not grieve for what he has not, but rejoices in what he\u00a0 has.—–Epictetus<\/span><\/p>\n THANK YOU POWER -envision\u00a0 the life you’d like!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n *******<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n I picked this\u00a0article as it INSPIRED me, and hopefully it will you too!\u00a0 This article comes from the\u00a0 book \u00a0“THANK YOU POWER”- AUTHOR:\u00a0 DEBORAH\u00a0 NORVILLE . EMMA ROTHBURST DOES NOT LOOK\u00a0 AT THE DISASTER that hit her life as a Blessing but she does know she has\u00a0 been blessed.\u00a0 Her story in her home town\u00a0 near Kansas City\u00a0 and\u00a0it\u00a0haunted television viewers who saw the news reports about\u00a0 it. It was a fall Friday night\u00a0 during Emma’s junior year in high school.\u00a0 She and friend Ashley Wanger\u00a0 were on their way<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5713,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whisnews21.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"078522193X\"](\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/078522193x.jpg\")
EMMA ROTHBURST DOES NOT LOOK\u00a0 AT THE DISASTER that hit her life as a Blessing but she does know she has\u00a0 been blessed.\u00a0 <\/span>Her story in her home town\u00a0 near Kansas City\u00a0 and\u00a0it\u00a0haunted television viewers who saw the news reports about\u00a0 it.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"crime_policecar3\"](\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2013\/05\/crime_policecar3.jpg?w=300\")
The accident rearranged Emma\u00a0 and her family’s\u00a0world\u00a0as much as it rearranged her body. \u00a0 A\u00a0 former junior-high cheerleader who ran three miles a day, Emma now spends every\u00a0 single day dealing with pain.\u00a0 Yes, incredibly, for some\u00a0 one with the\u00a0 hip injuries she sustained, she can walk.\u00a0 You don’t have \u00a0to talk\u00a0 with Emma for long to know she is one very determined young lady.<\/span><\/p>\n![\"JesusMyLord\"](\"http:\/\/whisnews21.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/12\/jesusmylord2.jpg?w=300\")
GRATITUDE RETURNED BY\u00a0 GRATITUDE. PRAYER REPAID BY MORE PRAYERS.\u00a0 Asked if there was any silver\u00a0 lining\u00a0 to her horrible tragedy, Emma is quick to answer, “I’m alive. I\u00a0 really should be dead, and I am not, and there is something I have to do, I\u00a0 guess.<\/span><\/p>\n\nPlease come back and visit my Inspirational Station messages here\u2026.. <\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n
and please leave your<\/span> valued comments ! God is faithful! Rhon<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"