And now comes the boring part

[dagbrown]

Car crashes and surgery are very exciting and all, but after the dramatic bit, there’s this long, slow, dreadfully-boring process called recovery. With its considerably-more-tedious cousin paperwork.

The paperwork has been in the form of the clerk at the insurance company that holds the policy for the car that ran me over. The office I’ve been

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[knemesis]

My dad is in the school of being decidedly not helpful with wheelchairs. He kept pulling it far too close, or far too far away from my mom to easily use. She was also attached to an IV pole and he had a very difficult time understanding that you cannot just wheel the chair with the feet *under* the bed because where was she standing up from? He would then sometimes wheel her just to the door of her four person room and expect her to magically get up with nothing to grab onto. Let's not even get into how fast he thought someone who had just had brain surgery needed to go when he was pushing the chair.. There was a reason mom would tell me to get the chair and hold onto it. I suppose those courses I took when I was a teenager on how to properly wheel someone in a wheelchair sunk in because it just seemed common sense to make sure the chair was either there, or not in the way at the appropriate times

[dagbrown]

My work has been shockingly nice about me being off. My boss told me to take care of myself first--that's the most important thing, he said. He told me to take as much time off work to get better as I need.

I quite like that attitude.

(It helps that work doesn't pay for my wages while I'm in the hospital. The other guy's insurance does. It's the law.)

[tau_iota_mu_c]

(if he's not driving illegally without registration and insurance)

[dagbrown]

Company car, and the company's insurance policy. If he was driving without a license, then he's very fired right now.

[tau_iota_mu_c]

Yes, but in general, don't get hit by bad people.