[sylvie]

Originally Posted by princessbelle

What is on my mind....hmmmmmmmmmm. OMG so very much.

Pardon me if i ramble on and on and please feel free to skip this post entirely because at the moment i have a LOT on my mind and it's been a very long day at 4:30 in the afternoon.

So, this morning I took off for work as normal. I do homehealth, am a nurse, and drive to homes to take care of patients. I went by quick stop store, picked up a coffee and was off on my way to my first patient.

This next part is partly a blurr, what seems like a dream and sorta hasn't sunk in yet.

I was sitting at a redlight, sipping on my coffee. I looked up at the redlight and saw it turn from red to green. BEFORE i could even take my foot off the brake and move it to the gas pedal, I heard the loudest bang i've ever heard, felt myself being propelled forward and I remember looking at my hand where my coffee cup was and thinking...."where did my coffee go".

Now this all happened in a nanosecond. There was no time to think, react, defend myself or understand at all what had happened. I was hit in the rear by a woman who was just driving down the street and evidently did not notice there was a red light and i was stopped there. Not sure what she thought but it is what it is.

The next think i knew I noticed coffee dripping out of my hair and all over my windshield. I thought "OMG someone just hit me". Almost immediately there was a woman standing by my cardoor. I rolled down my window and she was talking so fast i couldn't even focus on her words. I heard pieces of "My insurance company is gonna drop me" "Please don't turn this in".

I had received my new phone yesterday, i'm still trying to learn how to use it. I was trying to focus and dial 911. I was crying, shaking and dripping with coffee. I handed it to the lady and said "can you call 911?" She again said something like..." i don't want to turn this in." It sorta hit me then that she was trying to get me to just keep going and not call 911. Well, i had no CLUE how bad i was hurt, I did have my seatbelt on but my neck was hurting and she hit me so hard that i was now out in the middle of the intersection and cars were having to go way around me to make their turn. I noticed at this point my foot was still on the brake.

Not one single person stopped. Not one.

Finally she called 911. Within a few minutes the police came...then the ambulance.....then the tow truck.

The EMT said i probably had whiplash and to go see a doc. I went to ER but there was a five hour wait, so I opted for Employee Health and besides whiplash I think i'm ok...well and the fact i'm in a daze or feel just sorta freaking out.

The police then had me pull into a parking lot nearby. I called SnackTime and my office. While i was on the phone with my boss, i looked in the rear view and saw the woman was standing with the police and they were having her "walk a straight line". Immediately after that, they cuffed her, stuck her in the back of the police car and wisked her away.

What? She was freaking drunk or whatever at 10 in the morning? She had told me too that she was a nurse.

Her car is totalled. It was a van and there is no front of her car left, the windshield was broken and her air bags were out. I cannot believe she wasn't hurt, and maybe she is because if she was drunk she probably don't even know how she feels.

My car: besides the fact that it is totally covered inside with a huge amount of coffee; the rear end is in a V on the bumper and underneath all the way to my spare tire.

My thoughts: well i wanted to type this as some sort of therapy i suppose and this thought:

I know you've heard it and I know it ain't new.....

Just a reminder.....

YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN YOUR NEXT BREATH MAY BE YOUR LAST. It freaking happens so fast, there is no time to think, plan, know a thing.

Be well all...be safe out there.....WEAR YOUR SEATBELTS and NEVER forget to tell EVERYONE you love how much you do EVERY DAY.

*hugs.

wow, belle!
what a scary experience, i'm so glad a/that you are okay and b/that .. well just that you are okay... all too often things like this happen and it's sad, horrible and so wrong... thank you for the reminders, about seatbelts and telling people we love them everyday.. something many people forget often, and something i need to remember myself, often.. ♥ i better not get started on drinking & driving - i'm sure we think alike...grrrr

really, truly am happy you are okay, and postin here has always felt like a therapy to myself, in various ways.. i was in a similar situation, once.. i had my son with me in the car, and the person hit straight on in the door where my son was sitting.. WITH our seatbelts on, i managed to somehow pull him onto me which saved him .. the things we do in our moment of shock...make sure you do something relaxing for yourself, & (((hugggggggz))) - be well hunny! again, glad you are okay.