It was an interesting night last night, this is to let you know what happened. I should be sleeping now I suppose, considering I got home at 4 this morning (stupid time change), but I think the shock of it has worn off and now I'm feeling the aftereffects: jittery and anxious, so I can't really sleep. I figure maybe writing it out will help me sort this through. Last nght, at around midnight, KristieAnne, Bibi and I were involved in an MVC (motor vehicle collision, since there's no such thing as accidents they say). KristieAnne was driving Bibi and I home after bible study and Starbucks; it was around midnight, and we were going through the intersection at Townsite and Terminal, infront of Midland Tools. We had a green light. I was sitting in the back seat behind the driver and I saw that. But this guy decided to turn left in front of us.
I didn't really see what happened, because of my viewpoint, but from what the others have told me, KristieAnne saw this guy was trying to turn and honked at hime to warn him we were there, because we were in the right hand lane, and there was a car just in front of us in the left hand lane. So maybe this guy didn't see us? I don't know. Anyways, he just kept turing into us and KristieAnne swerved to miss him. We did clip his front end, cuz he just kept on turning, and then we hit the the streetlight pole head on.
It all happened so fast, it's like in the movies where everthing's fine and you're joking around and talking about something funny and then BOOM, something happens and you're left wondering what hit you. KrisitieAnne's car was totalled. It's a 2000 sunfire, and those cars are desgined to crumple on impact but that saves the passengers so we were very fortunate. We all got pretty severe whiplash, KristieAnne's head and neck were hurt really badly and Bibi also got a burn on her neck and chest from the airbags. We spent the next 2 or so hours in Emerg with spinal boards and neck braces. But they took X-Rays and said we were okay, there was no broken bones or anything and they sent us home. The other guy who hit us was apparently fine and also apparently drunk. He tried to accuse KristieAnne of going too fast and he was saying he had the right of way, but we had lots of witnesses who saw the whole thing and knew that it wasn't our fault at all.
It's been really awesome to see how God has blessed us and protected us in this: from the simple fact of seat belts and air bags, to the number of witnesses who helped out, to the fact that we did only have whiplash. I was also blessed in a neat way, just with a peace from God. I was still really shaken up when it happened, but I just knew somehow that we were all going to be okay and God was totally watching out for us, and so it made the experience less traumatic for me.
It's going to be a bit of a road to full recovery for all of us. I've had whiplash before and it takes from months to sometimes over a year of physio and other treatment to heal completely. So we would appreciate your prayers: for healing and also for KristieAnne who has to deal with the insurance of this now and with not having a car and with driving again.
And really it just comes all back to praising God: for whoever designed crumpling cars, seatbelts and airbags, I can't say all technology is bad. Also for all the witnesses who were there to help us and set the record straight when we couldn't deal with it. And for Brent the cute paramedic and all the other EMT's, police, firemen, nurses and doctors who do such an amazing job and were so friendly and caring even at 1 in the morning.
