Are you OK?

It's great to hear from your Officer when they're able to check in during their shift. Just to say hello or good night. Not so great when your hear, "I've been in an accident. I'm ok. Watch the news. I gotta go."  I got one of those calls. You barely have time to process the words before he has to hang up. Millions of thoughts and images run through your head. Is he really ok? Or he is just saying that so I don't worry. 

I got on Twitter as fast as I could. The news stations had posts. There were pictures and even videos. The early posts had conflicting information. I tried texting B. back. I didn't hear back from him. 

I usually don't watch the nightly news, but I guess people still do. Around 10:00, I started receiving texts. That's not B., right? When I replied, Yes, the overwhelming answer was, "Oh my gosh!"

It was a very long and sleepless night. I couldn't sleep not hearing back from him and following the news on my phone. There was definitely an angel watching over him. We finally got to talk on the phone the next morning and I rushed home from work to see him before he left for work again. "Are you ok?"All I could do was hug him and hold back tears.