Scott Smith:  

and a half hours to get back to our first home. I miss Indiana very much. But we do love it here also. Come visit us. You will fall in love with the area also. See You Soon. Boy how things change. I wrote the above 4 years ago. A lot has happened in our lives. My son the wrestler went on to win two state championships his junior and senior years. He just now finished up his sophomore year at Shorter University in Rome GA. He is on a wrestiling scholorship and has done quite well his first two years. He was 43-3 and placed 7th in the nation last year and went 20-1 this year losing his first match of the year in the championship match of the NCWA tournament. What has changed is when Ben was a senior on Jan. 14, 2012 his sister who was in her last semester of nursing school was involved in a car accident, that left her paralyzed from the chest down. She has decent use of her arms and fingers. Way more than she should for having a c4 c5 break. Complete. I now speak a different language than I ever have in my life. Of course this happened 4 months and one day after I turned 50 years old. My 50's haven't been to good so far. Christine is my daughters name and she is doing quite well under the circumstances. She finished up her degree the next year. And has since passed the boards to become a full fledged R.N. She just had an operation a couple of weeks ago (April 23rd 2014) that brought a tube up toward her belly button so that she can begin to self cathetar herself. She will look for a job in June and hopefully she will find something that she will enjoy. She has a van now that she can drive herself. She loves that. Her boyfriend was driving her car the night of the accident. She was in the passenger seat. She is an awesome girl. Never a problem. Of course I thought that someday she would be watching over us, so this is hard to take. Watching your flesh and blood be in physical pain and not be able to get up and go some place when she wants to. But like I said she is not a complainer. But please lift my family up in prayer. It is a tough thing to deal with. Thanks for listening. Oh, by the way, when Ben won his semi-final match to get to the championship match his senior year it did set the national record for career wins. It was such an emotional day. It was about 5 weeks after the accident. Christine and mom were in a hospital in Birmingham that was helping Christine with her tracheotomy. We were skyping the matches so they could watch as good as possible. The night before the accident Ben lost to a 4 time state champion by two points. That was the last match he lost. The accident happened at 5 in the morning on Saturday and Ben wrestled 5 matches that day. Of course won them all and then headed to the hospital a couple of miles away where Christine had already had her surgery to put her spine back together. Thanks for listening and I will update again at a later date. God Bless You.