Sideswept

My sister and I were in a minor car accident ten days ago. Some apparently legally blind woman in an SUV ran a stop sign and caught the back door of our Prius. Even though neither of us were severely injured, my back injury has been exacerbated to the point that I'm temporarily back on bed rest.

I'm borderline livid. I feel like I had just gotten my "life" pieced together and then, wham, now here I am in bed again. We are hoping that the recovery will be a fastforward version of the one I've been living through, but right now I just feel reinjured. Plus, we now get to deal with the lovely world of auto insurance. Yay.

I am grateful that things are not worse than they are. For example, a slight difference in MPH and that SUV would have hit my door and I don't know what would have happened to me in that case. However, I feel like god or fate or whatever is pointing at me and my family and laughing maniacally.

So, The Plan. Things have been scaled back to six months ago. I dropped my film class to redevote myself to physical therapy and so that I can retreat into my bubble of denial. I'll be seeing all my specialists to document all of this, and I'm back to upwards of four doctors a week. Hopefully we can do this faster this time. If not - well, fortunately, they make movies every year.

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