So I HAVE to buy a new car now
So yeah, I finally got my car fixed. It was running great, had new front tires, just passed smog, paid the registration, had just put in a new starter, new throttle positioner etc. and now it doesn't work.
Why doesn't it work you ask? Well some asshole slammed into me when I was making a left hand turn. I was at the corner of Evergreen and Harbor and was going to make a left hand turn to go towards the Pomadessie bridge. I was heading to Target to buy another plant for my mom for Mothers Day. She likes to garden and she wanted a new Hibiscus, but that's off topic. So my light turned green and I started to turn. A brown car (no i don't know what the make was or who was in the car etc. it happened so fast and it was yesterday) came barreling through their red light and slammed into me. I can remember seeing the car coming at me while in the intersection and thinking "Oh shit their going to hit me!" They slammed into my drivers side. Where the hood and door meet I think. Like I said it was fast. I was turning left but they hit me so hard that I lost control of the car and ended up pinned between two cars on the wrong side of traffic. My car is totaled. After all that money I spent fixing it. Its totaled.
I sat there for what seemed like hours, but it was only a couple of minutes. I had people coming to my car and asking " Are you OK?" "Can you walk?" "Do you want help out of the car?" Well first off No I'm not OK. I've just been smashed by another car which has caused me to be in the opposite side of traffic for gods sake! Two how the hell do I know if I can walk or not? Shit I'm sitting in a damn car and scared shit-less! Third, No I don't want anyone's help out of the car. I'll wait for professionals to help get me out. I don't want to mess myself up any more than need be.
The ambulance came and got me. They stabilized my neck (god I hate neck braces) and got me out of the car on to the board ( I hate the damn boards too!) I guess I was surprisingly calm. I had an AWESOME EMT. The only way to keep myself from crying was to crack jokes so she and I were making jokes on the way to the emergency room. Once I got into the emergency room and she left I started crying. I couldn't help it, it finally sunk in I had been in an awful accident. This wasn't a joke I could have died had I been in my mom's car.
I swear doctors in the emergency room want to leave you there and see how much pain you can get in before they look at you. It seemed like hours before I was off the board. It was making my head hurt. At least that's what i thought it was at the time. And it seemed like even more before a doctor looked at me. When he did he pressed on my neck. There was minor discomfort but nothing to make me cry about. Then he had me move my neck around. Left...Right... Up... then to my chest. There wasn't anything to horrible so they took the brace off. after that they checked my spine... That sucked. The top of my spine didn't bother me at all. When he pressed on my lower spine I started crying it hurt so much. Then he pressed on my hips first one then the other. When he pressed my on left hip I started crying again it hurt SO much. Then he pressed my shoulders my left one hurt like someone was stabbing me. It wasn't the bone just next to it. They wanted to do x-rays and said it would be a few hours.
This whole time I had been asking someone to call my mom but no one would. No one was listening and I kept crying. I was alone. There were a few CDC officers there. One started talking to me. This was while I was still in the neck brace. He got the nurse to get me my glasses. Which I thank him for because I hate not being able to see. When he realized that no one was going to call my mom, he offered and called her for me. He is the only one that kept me some what calm until someone I knew came. I wish I knew what his name was, I forgot to ask while he was there. If he reads this. I thank you so much for being there. You didn't have to help me but you did.
After waiting for what seemed like another couple of hours another doctor came over and started checking. He said that he still wanted to do x-rays and they would be soon. They just needed a urine sample first. I was able to walk to the bathroom. I was hella dizzy and felt faint but I made it. At that point it didn't hurt too much to walk my hip was stiff so I was limping. I Blamed it laying down for so long. When I went back to my bed I asked if I could sit up because while I felt dizzy my head didn't hurt half as much as it did when I was laying down. The nurse said it was fine. when the doctor came over i told him the nurse said it was fine and if I didn't think my head would start throbbing again I would have lied down. He asking me to do a few things and to tell him if it hurt. I bent to one side then the other, bent forwards and raised my harms. I didn't have any excruciating pain so I didn't have to have x-rays.They told me to take 600mg of Morin every 8 hrs to curb the pain and said I would be in more the next day. I did have head trauma though. I have a huge knot on my head. I have no idea what I hit just did. I went home around 11. Sent a few text messages called a friend then passed out.
How am I? Well I'm alive. I guess that's a good thing but I'm sore as hell. I am limping when I walk. My left hip is extremely stiff. I have several bruises and my shoulders are extremely tender. My spine is actually sore even though it didn't bother too much when I left. It hurts my hip to walk and my shoulders are burning as I type and it is hard to sit straight. I keep finding new bruses/ But I am Alive.
I'm so glad I wasn't driving my mom's car. At the very least I would still be in the hospital and well you know the worst. She has a 87 Honda prelude. its a tiny car. I am glad I had no one in the car with me. I would have felt horrible it anyone was. I wish no one to have this experience. I hurt. About the only thing that kept me in a decent mood was Don coming over. He's great. Don't tell him I told you that though. I've stroked his ego enough lately.
I am alive. It could have been worse. Tomorrows another day. A day filled with police stations, insurance companies, car rental companies, and doctors to be called and appointments made. My boss said to take as much time as I need hopefully i wont be out of commission too long. But at least I am alive....
I am alive.
