The New Year Date Tuesday, April 23, 2024 - 09:11 PM PST Topic Drama It has been a week since that man ran a red light and smashed into us. Our car was totaled. The hospital said it was mostly just sprains and shock and that we would feel better in a week or so. Well its been a week. I still have trouble turning my head. Shade still walks with a slight limp. The car has been towed away and we are driving a rental car. Let me mention that the night we were hit, we were supposed to be meeting friends that we hadnt seen in 3 years. They were in town for a convention and then were going to stay for a few nights at our house. We were in so much pain and had so much legal stuff to deal with that we barely got to see them at all. Did I mention that her brother was also in town? A rather fabulous chef that knows a bunch of the other fabu chefs down here and that we had to decline dinner because we couldn’t sit up? Now we have physical therapy rather than breakfast. I have more pain pills than I can count, at least that I can count after taking one of the pills. We fall asleep early because the drugs and the healing and the pain knock us out. We whine all day at work about how much it hurts. We drive a rental car. So far the doctors have been insane. The insurance people work only those hours when we are asleep. The lawyer is a tall smiling man who’s paralegal can’t figure out how to use a phone. But the nurse have all been smiling faces with a good bedside manner. I just want the pain to stop. I want to sleep through the night. I want to get in a car with out being afraid, really afraid of traffic. I want shade to stop wincing when he walks or bends. I want my car back. Oh did I mention that someone just stole one of our credit cards? The main one? And that the shop we work at is a plaque ward. Everone has a headcold, the flu, the other flu or a stomach virus? Its three weeks into the new year and each week so far we have has either a flu, a car wreck, or credit theft. So far its been a “bad” year. I miss the ‘80’s. This article comes from Shmeng http://www.shmeng.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.shmeng.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=641