Black and Blue
And by the title I mean both in the physical form and emotional/mental. Its been an entirely long week, and I think it's only going to get longer. So, lets start from the beginning, shall we?
Tuesday evening it was rainy (for the first time in over a month which means roads were wet on top of oil buildup) after I got out of work and I headed on to school for the first night of my Statistics class. Well, I never made it TO school. I'm not too sure what happened, whether something caught my eye as I drove past, or if I blanked out from lack of sleep the night before, or what. But I suddenly realized the car in front of me was stopped. I hit the brakes, but it was too little too late. The wet/oily road kept me from stopping when I normally could have done so. I hit the guy in front of me while going a good 40-45 mph, then did a half-spin before stopping. I know my seatbelt didn't catch and I hit my steering wheel pretty hard. The guy in the car in front of me was O.K. too, or at least he refused to talk to paramedics at all. Well, all of this was going on, and I was freaking out and hurting in my chest and right shoulder. I remember giving my info to the police officer, gathering some of the more valubile things in my car, and being lead to the ambulance. The paramedics talked to me, tried to calm me down, and the calmer I got the more I hurt. They finally convinced me to go to the ER, and I agreed. I was hurting in my shoulder/collarbone area and was afraid someting could have been fractured. The officer came back and took a bit more info, gave me my DL and insurance card back and left. I was never given a ciatation (which I think is a good thing). >_> I was taken to the hospital, my car was towed off, and I got Xrays taken. Nothing is broken, I have a sprained shoulder and VERY bruised chest. I have never imagined I would ever have a purple boob before.
Anyway, my insurance comapny has been notified, my car taken off to salvage. It's a waiting game now. Another car is at LEAST a week or two away, I have no clue how much I'm going to owe the insurance co. as a deductible and I don't want to know how high my insurance will go up. And the newly acquired medical bills...*sigh* I don't know what I'm going to do. My mom acts like my insurance co. handles all the stuff with the other guy now, and thats it there, but I have a deep feeling it isn't. All I can do is hope I'm wrong....
Tuesday evening it was rainy (for the first time in over a month which means roads were wet on top of oil buildup) after I got out of work and I headed on to school for the first night of my Statistics class. Well, I never made it TO school. I'm not too sure what happened, whether something caught my eye as I drove past, or if I blanked out from lack of sleep the night before, or what. But I suddenly realized the car in front of me was stopped. I hit the brakes, but it was too little too late. The wet/oily road kept me from stopping when I normally could have done so. I hit the guy in front of me while going a good 40-45 mph, then did a half-spin before stopping. I know my seatbelt didn't catch and I hit my steering wheel pretty hard. The guy in the car in front of me was O.K. too, or at least he refused to talk to paramedics at all. Well, all of this was going on, and I was freaking out and hurting in my chest and right shoulder. I remember giving my info to the police officer, gathering some of the more valubile things in my car, and being lead to the ambulance. The paramedics talked to me, tried to calm me down, and the calmer I got the more I hurt. They finally convinced me to go to the ER, and I agreed. I was hurting in my shoulder/collarbone area and was afraid someting could have been fractured. The officer came back and took a bit more info, gave me my DL and insurance card back and left. I was never given a ciatation (which I think is a good thing). >_> I was taken to the hospital, my car was towed off, and I got Xrays taken. Nothing is broken, I have a sprained shoulder and VERY bruised chest. I have never imagined I would ever have a purple boob before.
Anyway, my insurance comapny has been notified, my car taken off to salvage. It's a waiting game now. Another car is at LEAST a week or two away, I have no clue how much I'm going to owe the insurance co. as a deductible and I don't want to know how high my insurance will go up. And the newly acquired medical bills...*sigh* I don't know what I'm going to do. My mom acts like my insurance co. handles all the stuff with the other guy now, and thats it there, but I have a deep feeling it isn't. All I can do is hope I'm wrong....