I totaled our car last night
Aug. 11th, 2011 01:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geek_anachronismstupid mistake, driving tired and apparently with asymptomatic but worryingly low blood sugar. I thought I had an arrow, but I should have given way. Ripped away most of the engine, the radiator was leaning on the wheel when I got out. I had some spinal and abdominal symptoms but they went away and a CT cleared me so it's just the bruised chest wall now. And the burst blood vessels from the blood pressure cuff, a bruised elbow where it hit the steering wheel and a truly borked cannula site (apparently the first one since med school and I could feel him shaking as he did it).
I am so sore, and shaken. I do alright til I think of the empty car seat and how most days Bunbun would have been there as well. I don't think it would have happened if Wolfman was driving, but the very idea terrifies me. Apparently it worried the cops too, coming in to an empty car seat and an ambulance heading off with a not entirely coherent female driver.
I feel so bad. I wiped out our (only) car. I have no idea how much it will cost. We are insured, and the medical care didn't cost anything (I thought of that in the interminable four hours waiting for the all clear, staring at the ceiling in the neck brace). Nobody was seriously hurt, they weren't fancy cars, but I feel bad. We are borrowing a car from my parents, we aren't even that inconvenienced. But I feel awful. I joked this week that I kind of feel like those women who wish for a car accident so they can go to hospital and actually rest, except I want a car crash to avoid work. Then I have one. Fucking tempting fate bullshit.
But yeah, I broke my car.
I am so sore, and shaken. I do alright til I think of the empty car seat and how most days Bunbun would have been there as well. I don't think it would have happened if Wolfman was driving, but the very idea terrifies me. Apparently it worried the cops too, coming in to an empty car seat and an ambulance heading off with a not entirely coherent female driver.
I feel so bad. I wiped out our (only) car. I have no idea how much it will cost. We are insured, and the medical care didn't cost anything (I thought of that in the interminable four hours waiting for the all clear, staring at the ceiling in the neck brace). Nobody was seriously hurt, they weren't fancy cars, but I feel bad. We are borrowing a car from my parents, we aren't even that inconvenienced. But I feel awful. I joked this week that I kind of feel like those women who wish for a car accident so they can go to hospital and actually rest, except I want a car crash to avoid work. Then I have one. Fucking tempting fate bullshit.
But yeah, I broke my car.