Bumps and Bruises

Last weekend I was rear-ended (as some of you may know already), by a teenage girl driving a big truck. She smashed our poor car pretty bad ($5k worth of repairs), and my neck is still stiff and full of pain. I’ve been to the doc, and after x-rays, they say there’s nothing broken but there does seem to be some tissue damage that will need physical therapy for a while to help it heal. Blah.

The other person’s insurance will pay for all of it, thankfully, and we have a rental car while ours is getting fixed this week, and next…and possible the following week as well. Big truck going approx. 40mph + smallish Subaru going 20mph or less = ouch. At least I didn’t hit the guy in front of me who was stopped (there was a car on the side of the road in the way, which we were trying to move safely around).

Who knows why she didn’t stop. Texting? Smoking (she did have a cigarette in her hand when she got out of the car)? Rubber-necking at the guy on the side of the road? She didn’t say, but she did apologize. At least I’m alive, and nothing in my body is irreparably damaged – we think. It just sucks. A lot.

So, a note to those reading: please don’t drive distracted. Rear-ending hurts a lot more than it sounds. You never realize how important parts of your body are until they don’t work right. Typing at work hurts my neck. How does that connect? Hm.

Besides that, next week is tech week for the play I’m in. OH joy! :) But seriously, I love this part. You should come see it! I’ll make an event and invite you. Or, you can go to www.redwoodtheatre.org for details and tickets. This is not a play for children, by the way, and could potentially be a good date play, although the whole message is a little messed up, haha. Well, you’ll see. It’s pretty funny. Come see it!