So true...
I had jury duty this morning, and I was about half an hour early, at least when I reached around Hanover and Lakeshore. I had just stopped at the stop light because the light turned red, 2 seconds later, the car behind me slams into me. I didn't see it coming, and my head jerked forward, and then slammed into the head rest of my seat. My head throbbed the whole two blocks that we drove to the next available parking area. I finally got out, and the woman comes out completely apologetic, "I'm so sorry, I wasn't paying attention, and I couldn't stop in time." She gave me all of her information, and then just as we were finishing up the exchange of information, we realized that her car was leaking some sort of fluid. She was really nice about it, but I guess for me, I was so shaken that I didn't grab the information I needed, like her DL#, license plate, or her address, I got all that other stuff like her VIN #, policy #, year and make of the car. I just wasn't altogether there at that point. I kept thinking, I have to go to jury duty, I have to go to jury duty, and didn't ask for anything. I didn't think I had injured anything, but about an hour later when I was sitting in the assembly room of the courthouse, I realized I couldn't turn my neck too close to 90 degrees, because it hurt too much. The side that had slammed into my seat had taken a beating, and that whole side is either numb or throbbing.
I went to the chiropractor and she said she would feel my back side to see how everything was. She was feeling my neck, the part that bothered me the least when I had gotten out of the accident, and the first thing she said to me was that my neck was noticeably swollen, and without reason, I started to cry. I know I'm a little sentimental, but I couldn't help it. I was injured at this point. She went further down my back, and determined that my right shoulder was resting at a lower angle than the left side of my body, and for the most part, my right side was throbbing near the lower back, and when I couldn't turn far to my left stretching my right side, or when I had to raise my arms, my right side was not doing as well as my left. By the time she told me that my pelvis was twisted to the side a little, it wasn't shocking, at all.
When she got around to the x-rays, I asked her how she could tell that my neck was swollen... so she explained to me that normally necks curve inwards from the nape to the collar bone-ish area, mine was lumped out. At this point, she had me feel for myself that it was swollen, and sure enough a GIANT lump outwards, and I teared up. She snapped a bunch of x-rays, and then told me she would help me release some tension, and put on some cooling gel for my swelling. Sure enough, the gel helped, frankly, I'm not sure how swollen my neck would have been if I just brushed off going in to get things checked out. I'm glad I did.
For the most part, everything is dandy, the rear-end of my car is completely gone, it was smashed in almost entirely, the trunk door is arched upwards, leaving about a 2-3 inch open gap, and the sides are about an inch ruptured, and the bumper is dropping about 1/2 a foot to a foot off the ground. Otherwise, everything is good. The upside is I get a spankin' new bumper, it's almost like a new car, now if only they would turn it into unbreakable/unbendable steel, I'd be good to go. Anyway, the woman's car barely dented at all, but some sort of fluid was leaking out of her car. At least no one was walking across the street when she rammed into me, so for the most part, everyone is nice and safe.
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