Joined: Thu Apr 28 2005, 12:18am
Location: Long Island
Posts: 327
I was in a nasty car accident on my birthday (June 22). No, I wasn't drinking; I was on my way home from my parents' house. Apparently, I had a stroke. According to the team of neurologists I'm now seeing for a number of things, the migraines I've had for 20 years have done some damage to the blood vessels in my brain and therefore caused some bleeding which lead to the (minor) stroke which caused the accident. I went straight through a telephone pole... it was no match for me, snapped right in half. I then flipped the car and rolled a few times and slid a few hundred feet. They had to cut me out of the car, needless to say.
Joined: Thu Apr 28 2005, 12:18am
Location: Long Island
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I'm okay now. The hospital they took me to was a joke. They didn't even take any xrays before taking me off the backboard. My mom told me later on that I got my own bandaids because I was bleeding all over the stretcher. They had to take them off, of course, to suture me. I don't remember much from the ER; I was so disoriented.
There's a lot more going on, though, besides that. Sesk knows about everything. I had a lengthy conversation with him on AIM a few days ago. My life has been filled with nonstop drama starting 2 weeks before the accident. That was just icing on the cake.
I met some right idiots on the road today... it was so annoying.. some people drive like twats..I get scared... a lot...I shouted at a bus driver today..
Joined: Fri Jan 07 2005, 05:26pm
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My sister was almost killed in a car wreck in 2000, shatered her pelvis and hip, almost died of internal bleeding, but luckily she was found in time. Car wrecks scare me. :cry:
Joined: Thu Apr 28 2005, 12:18am
Location: Long Island
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those commercials they have on tv now where they show accidents happening give me flashbacks. I find myself just staring at the screen with tears in my eyes sometimes. Weird.
I'm still driving, though. I have to get to work somehow. I just don't go anywhere I don't have to, and if I do I make sure someone else is driving. They can take my car (which is all shiny and new) but I'm not the one behind the wheel.
My hands are still numb and my face is still kind of tingling. I don't know if that's from the stroke, a new stroke coming on, or something else that's happening. And it doesn't help that in the midst of all of this chaos I had to pack up and move to another apartment because my lease was up at the old place. And I signed myself up for classes for school so I'm applying for financial aid and loans which is all due asap. Plus the new car that I bought and put money down on (while I was driving a rental the insurance company was paying for) was sold the next day. When the ins. company stopped paying for the rental I went to get the car and it wasn't there. I ended up having to pay for it for 2 weeks while Toyota found me another new car. Craziness.
