Queen's Joy
ISABEL, CHANGES OF A LIFE
An accident changed my life. In the summer 14 years ago I traveled from my home to the US border in Texas with my 2 1/2 year old son and my husband. My 3-month-old daughter had stayed with my mother-in-law at her house.
BY CLARA GOVELA
I remember that weekend we had a lot of fun on the beach and in a water park on South Padre Island; we did´nt know what awaited for us . On July 30 at 3:00 in the afternoon on the highway and on the side of Mexico, it was the impact that would change our lives forever. My son saved me by calling me to the back seat as the impact destroyed the passenger side. The transfer and care was delayed, with many unpleasant procedures that I had to face firmly, but with the help of angels (that's what I call the people who helped us) and an internal spiritual force that impelled me; coupled with my father's help on the cell phone, it made me think first that I had to save my son and my husband. When I was at that crucial moment where we were between life and death, I knew that if I was paralyzed we would not have good results. The learning from this experience was that you have to be active and with all your heart and mind face the situation to survive.
BIOGRAFY. Clara Evelina Govela Martinez (Tampico, Tamaulipas, 1976). I started working in education in Benjamin Franklin institute, founding the psychology department. I worked for eleven years in Tampico’s cultural institute, an important Jesuit educational institute in town, where I worked in important psychology tasks. I worked for three years in the Tampico Pan-American Institute as the psychology department Director.
When I finally arrived at a private hospital as requested, my father and father-in-law (+) were there too helping us get settled in the hospital. Suddenly I felt that I had fulfilled my mission and my last request was to be with my son in the same room, I fainted and I did´nt know more. In the middle of the night I heard the doctor tell my father “if your daughter and grandson make it thtough the night they´ll live. Hearing this made me worried and I was afraid of dying and thinking that my son could die was even more complicated. I Left everything in the hands of that divine being (God) who decides if your time in life is over or if you have a second chance to do something else.
Writing has been an adventure for me, as thru my experience I have realized how important guidance is in the schools I worked for, and to encourage human sense thru values. I´m happily married, and I´m mother of two teenagers.
When I woke up the next day, they began to treat my son and me and operated on my husband for a ruptured femur. 12
