On Friday morning I was headed to work. I put on my blinker, slowed down, and began turning into the 1173 Storage Driveway. I heard screeching tires behind me and looked in my rear view mirror to see a Dodge Ram 1500 sliding FAST in my direction. I had already began the turn but was not cleared. The dodge hit my back left side of my Saturn L200 (poor thing) and I was spun hard and thrown into the ditch up against the fencing. Thank God, I braced myself and had my seat belt on. And Thank God that the air bags did not go off. If they had, I could have easily crushed my ribs because I sit SO close to the steering wheel, as I am very short.

The full of extent of the damage done to my car is unknown. I would have expected a lot more damage from the truck hitting me but there was no broken windows, no broken tail lights, and really my trunk and back bumper were the only major damages done. However, it is probably not driver safe, as the trunk won't shut now. His Dodge's grill is bent in pretty good and I am shocked that my little girl did that to his big truck, =). It just makes me so proud of her to know that she can take on something like that. He told the cop that he had been going 60, which is the correct speed limit, but if he had hit me at that speed....whew, no wonder I had spun around, off the culvert and into the ditch.

I don't know how the guy didn't see me. I was clearly turning and had slowed down long before I needed to, WITH A BLINKER. He told the officer (State Trooper actually) that he hadn't seen a blinker. However, when I turned the car on to move it out of the ditch, the blinker was still ticking away! =) I'm not angry at the man that hit me, he genuinely seemed apologetic, and a little pissed off at himself.

In the end he was given a ticket and I went to the ER just to get checked out (parents pre-caution made me). I felt fine yesterday, just a small pain in the head from being jerked around. Today was a whole different story though. I woke up feeling like my left side of my neck had just been beaten in and was completely pulled apart. It even affected the way that i wanted to swallow things today. It feels like my throat is closing up, but I'm not sick, just physically hurting around the neck area. Strange, huh?

Honestly, I probably could have gassed it and moved out of teh way but I sincerely didn't think he was going to hit me until he was right there and then i braced for it. I'm just so happy that he hit me at an agle, vs. directly in the back, because I've heard that you can really damage your neck/head if you're hit that way. I'm just so THANKFUL to GOD. I really felt like he was there holding me during the whole thing, keeping me safe. In addition, this whole situation has made me a lot more cautious about watching for other people, texting while i'm driving, etc. I'm sure he must have been looking down when he hit me, or texting or something. Although I will say that it was morning and the sun was BLARING in my eyes the whole way to work, and it could have been the same way for him and he might not have seen me due to me owning a silver car. But still, he could have slowed down if he weren't either speeding or following too clsoe behind me. The tire marks on the road stretch a good 50ft (not kidding and maybe more) and stop right where he hit me.

So be careful out there friends. Drive friendly, and watch for those who don't drive friendly. I'm so happy to be alive today and safe with my husband.

Peace.

First Blog Ever!

This is my first blog ever. Yay! =) And honestly I don't know what to say. I'm sitting up here at work doing absolutely nothing more than this. Homework is done. Math test is waiting for me.

Usually when I write stuff I tend to think of inspirational words and hope that they sound good enough for people to want to read them. But today it's raining, the clouds are thick and my brain is cloudy. I just don't feel like it today. I feel like...sleeping, sipping hot cocoa, cuddling with my husband, or reading Edgar Alan Poe. The day is simply too appropriate not to want to do those things.

I am looking forward to this evening, however. Fabian and Becky's Life Group! Yay! That is always something that cheers me up. =)

Bye now,
Lacy