Another bloody car crash. Hooray for yet more broken bones and head injuries!
This one really wasn’t my fault – Darkly was driving, I was just the passenger. It was on a road I know well, but she doesn’t. She was going faster than I would have been, but then her car is (was) a small sportscar with better handling than I’m used to. And we discovered afterwards that somebody had spilled oil on the road, making it very slippery. So whilst I’m certain it wasn’t my fault, I’ll point no fingers as to whose fault it *was*
But following a collision with a tree, I got carted to hospital with blood pouring down my face, immobilised on a spine board and with no feeling in my left arm.
Not really a good way to spend your holiday.
Luckily, my spine was undamaged. Darkly escaped with just heavy bruising. I have similar damage all over my torso, front and back, along with a fractured left thumb and a nasty gash in my forehead that several chunks of glass were dug out of in the ER. This was stitched up and has healed remarkably well so far. It’s still going to leave a permanent large scar, tho I do have some lotion to apply for the next few months that’s supposed to reduce that somewhat.
And looking on the bright side, there’s such a huge industry built around “If you had an accident and it wasn’t your fault” events these days, when Darkly’s insurance company finally stops stalling, I should get a decent amount of compensation out of it – hopefully I’ll be able to pay off my car, at least. That’ll be nice.
At the moment, though, knowing that I’ll get paid back for all my expenses within the next year or so doesn’t help much, since I’ve had to replace clothes and quite an expensive pair of glasses and those were expenses I really could have done without right now.
Swings and roundabouts, I guess.
After my hospital appointment tomorrow, I’m aiming to go into work for the first time since the crash. It’s nice to have the lie-ins you can get whilst working from home, but I still prefer to work in an office and leave home as the place where I live.
If all goes well and I’m able to start driving, tho, there *is* one thing that I’m looking forward to getting to this week. More news on that later.
Glad you’re shaping up OK. Cars versus trees do suck…And I’m very curious to know what news is coming…despite never being online anymore, I do try to keep up…<3