I got in an accident on the way to pick Richard up from school, I messed up the front end of the my car but was unhurt (so far as I know anyway), both of my airbags deployed, but the accident did not include any other cars. It was just rainy roads, and in my opinion, maybe a patch of oily slick on the road. I was on Bryan Dairy Road, going around the curves to get around to the light to turn left onto Starkey to get to the school. Apparently when I hit one of the curvy patches, I went into a spin, hit the wall headed toward the lake and somehow ended up into the wrong side of the road going into oncoming traffic…. Except, luckily for me there was no oncoming traffic. I immediately veered back across the median the right side of the road and continued on to pick Richard up as if nothing had ever happened. I was on autopilot... ("go get Richard, go get Richard... can't be late. etc.) It did not occur to me how badly what had happened until I got home, and that’s when I broke down and became a mess. My car still operates, the gauges still all show up in a normal status.... it probably needs an alignment and a new bumper and headlight, but other than that, it seems OK. My parents think that there is worse damage to my car than what I think there is, but.... I guess we'll decide that later when I'm in a better frame of mind to decide.
I originally wrote this hours earlier.... Around 8 or so, my neck and head went into attack mode on me, I ended up with one of the worst migraines of my life. My back hurts too.... but since it always hurts, it's hard to tell if that's because of the accident or just my usual hurt. Pretty much, I stopped any and all activity and became a blubbering mass of goo on the couch as I attempted to apply the tens unit to my neck. At 10 or so, my stepmom came up to help me through it, she gets them often too, so she's good about knowing how to handle them... plus well, she's just a wonderful mother. Don't get me wrong.... I've had migraines since I was a teenager However, this was either the worst or the second worst I've ever had in my life. We tried ice, cool wet cloths, a tens unit on my neck, a heating pad, pretty much everything we had in our arsenal. At that point, I gave up and just wanted to pass out and forget the pain.
So by 2 AM, I'd taken 20 Mg my of Ambien (I took one (around midnight), and when that one didn't do the trick, took another an hour later(one-ish)) and 10 Mg of my Valium (an hour before the we tried the Ambien - so like 10:30 or 11 or so - to try and simply calm my muscles down first) and make the pain go away..... I'm pretty sure I fell asleep at some point after that... but it had to be closer to 3. Here it is, 6 and I'm back awake, despite all of the medication I had. (For those of you who don't know... 1 ambien will usually knock you out for 7 or 8 hours alone. Make it two... well, who knows, I guess it depends on the person. Not to mention the valium. I thought -hoping, really - I'd be out for a while.) The pain is not anywhere near as intenese, but it is for sure still there so I think I will go lay back down, if nothing else than to just be comfortable.
I can't get the smell of the airbags out of my nose, nor the thought of the accident replaying in my head as if it were on repeat over and over and over. If I was 10 minutes later when it happened, Richard would have been in the car and things could have been a lot worse. I've had 2 other "Accidents, I have never been involved with another car and have never involved my insurance. All of my accidents were on slick, wet roads. One, the guy stopped suddenly to turn I guess, no turn signal, and I had to slam on my brakes and swerve to miss him. This was an older car which had poor traction and drivability in the rain) to miss him, this sent my car hydroplaning into a deep ditch (I was young here, maybe 20 or 21 so my choice maybe not have been the brightest decision, but the only one I could come up with at the time other than hitting the truck.) The other, a large truck towing a long boat pulled out in front of us to turn into the VA park on Tyrone over Labor day weekend... at night. I swerved and hit the brakes (Again, I was a very young and inexperienced driver - 18 I think, but if I didn't I would have hit his boat for sure.) and it sent us into multiple fast spins until the median (no bigger than the one I easily ran over -twice - today) stopped us from going into oncoming traffic. This time I was lucky we didn't jump the median.... there was a lot of oncoming traffic. We would have been plowed over. Also out of pure luck, there was no one on our side of the road so when I went into spins, no one else was involved. Neither time, neither vehicle stopped to make sure I/we were alright. They kept going.
Out of all of these experiences, today's accident has left me really shaken. I'm terrified, I don't want to even be around cars right now. Every time Richard sees me, all he wants to do is talk about the accident, how it happened and why there was "smoke" in the car (from the airbags), why my car needs a new headlight, etc. So I'm being avoidant right now, I'm sure you understand.
I originally wrote this hours earlier.... Around 8 or so, my neck and head went into attack mode on me, I ended up with one of the worst migraines of my life. My back hurts too.... but since it always hurts, it's hard to tell if that's because of the accident or just my usual hurt. Pretty much, I stopped any and all activity and became a blubbering mass of goo on the couch as I attempted to apply the tens unit to my neck. At 10 or so, my stepmom came up to help me through it, she gets them often too, so she's good about knowing how to handle them... plus well, she's just a wonderful mother. Don't get me wrong.... I've had migraines since I was a teenager However, this was either the worst or the second worst I've ever had in my life. We tried ice, cool wet cloths, a tens unit on my neck, a heating pad, pretty much everything we had in our arsenal. At that point, I gave up and just wanted to pass out and forget the pain.
So by 2 AM, I'd taken 20 Mg my of Ambien (I took one (around midnight), and when that one didn't do the trick, took another an hour later(one-ish)) and 10 Mg of my Valium (an hour before the we tried the Ambien - so like 10:30 or 11 or so - to try and simply calm my muscles down first) and make the pain go away..... I'm pretty sure I fell asleep at some point after that... but it had to be closer to 3. Here it is, 6 and I'm back awake, despite all of the medication I had. (For those of you who don't know... 1 ambien will usually knock you out for 7 or 8 hours alone. Make it two... well, who knows, I guess it depends on the person. Not to mention the valium. I thought -hoping, really - I'd be out for a while.) The pain is not anywhere near as intenese, but it is for sure still there so I think I will go lay back down, if nothing else than to just be comfortable.
I can't get the smell of the airbags out of my nose, nor the thought of the accident replaying in my head as if it were on repeat over and over and over. If I was 10 minutes later when it happened, Richard would have been in the car and things could have been a lot worse. I've had 2 other "Accidents, I have never been involved with another car and have never involved my insurance. All of my accidents were on slick, wet roads. One, the guy stopped suddenly to turn I guess, no turn signal, and I had to slam on my brakes and swerve to miss him. This was an older car which had poor traction and drivability in the rain) to miss him, this sent my car hydroplaning into a deep ditch (I was young here, maybe 20 or 21 so my choice maybe not have been the brightest decision, but the only one I could come up with at the time other than hitting the truck.) The other, a large truck towing a long boat pulled out in front of us to turn into the VA park on Tyrone over Labor day weekend... at night. I swerved and hit the brakes (Again, I was a very young and inexperienced driver - 18 I think, but if I didn't I would have hit his boat for sure.) and it sent us into multiple fast spins until the median (no bigger than the one I easily ran over -twice - today) stopped us from going into oncoming traffic. This time I was lucky we didn't jump the median.... there was a lot of oncoming traffic. We would have been plowed over. Also out of pure luck, there was no one on our side of the road so when I went into spins, no one else was involved. Neither time, neither vehicle stopped to make sure I/we were alright. They kept going.
Out of all of these experiences, today's accident has left me really shaken. I'm terrified, I don't want to even be around cars right now. Every time Richard sees me, all he wants to do is talk about the accident, how it happened and why there was "smoke" in the car (from the airbags), why my car needs a new headlight, etc. So I'm being avoidant right now, I'm sure you understand.