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Posted At: 9:42am by TripletOne
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These past 7 weeks and 3 days have been pretty crazy! They've mostly consisted of nursing, playing, cuddling, trying to get some sleep now and then, and did I mention nursing? Saranita is such a beautiful and adorable little girl!
I've been meaning to blog for, oh, about 7 weeks now but every time I would start to type, I would get distracted by a fussy or hungry little girl
Thursday evening, Saranita and I went to a police awards dinner (Nick met us there after work). My father-in-law received a special Accommodation award! Afterwards, Saranita and I headed home to finally nurse and go to the bathroom. I was just starting to make a right turn into our driveway when a van tried to pass us on the right and rammed into us. It seems that they first crashed into the right rear (and bashed in the trunk) sending us spinning then ran into the right front seat door and pushed us into a tree. After the initial shock of what happened, the van backed up and took off again.
I quickly climbed into the back seat to check on my crying Saranita. Besides a few pieces of glass that had fallen on her from the front passenger's window, she seemed fine. My cell phone had ended up on the floor in the back seat (I had actually been on the phone with my mom when it all happened and my poor mom heard the crash and screaming then nothing) so I picked it up and called Nick's dad. I have found that if I need the Cleveland police, the fastest way to do this is to call him and have him radio the police for me. During this call, Nick got home and started to call the police on his cell phone. At this point, I did call my mom and let her know we were still alive.
5 minutes later, there were several police cars, an ambulance, and a fire truck blocking the street. I answered some questions for the police and we were taken to the ER to be checked out. The only thing that was bothering me was my neck so they put a collar on and strapped me to a back board. Nick's parents followed us and stayed with us the whole time at the ER.
Saranita was checked out and everything seemed fine (besides being really hungry). She ended up sucking on a pacifier until she fell asleep. It took a while before I was seen but the doctor finally cleared my back and took me off the backboard. My neck was still hurting so they decided to take some X-rays. However, I was able to nurse Saranita (it had been about 2 hours since the accident by then) and then make my way to the bathroom. Boy did I feel better after doing those two things!
The X-rays all turned out fine--once I remembered I had a barrette in my hair and took it out. Apparently it looked like I had swallowed one for a couple of the X-rays. My neck still hurt when they pressed on one of the bones so they gave me a neck brace that I'm supposed to wear for a week then go to a PM&R clinic to be cleared. We finally got home around 1 in the morning.
The next day, I was expecting to be very sore but besides my neck and left shoulder being a little stiff and sore I was fine. I spent most of the day cuddling with my precious little baby
All of the damage to the car ended up being right in front of and in back of where Saranita's car seat. God was obviously watching over us!
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Posted On: November 18th, 2006 at 2:05pm by Bloghardt |
You guys are in our thoughts and prayers. It's not often that you see a blog post and read it word for word worried about what is coming next. I'm so relieved you guys are fine. Thank God.
I'm gonna try to relax now... my initial reaction to the title of your email was, "OH NO! ACK!" WEW.
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Posted On: November 20th, 2006 at 3:02am by Madre |
I'll second that. Thank God you're both OK.
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