So this past Friday I was leaving school and so excited because this week is Fall Break and I have no big plans, except to catch up on some TV shows I have taped from the summer! I get my stuff, sat and talked with my co-worker Amy for about 20 minutes and headed out to my car. I called Jay to let him know I was on my way home and then returned a phone call from a friend's mom to update her about all the IVF stuff Jay and I have been going through. I'm not more than 3 miles from my school and I come to this intersection, one I drive through twice a day. As I enter the light turns yellow and the next thing I notice is that a blue mini-van is making a left in front of me. Everything seemed to slow down and I kept thinking in my head, "She's going to speed up! She has to speed up!" Well she didn't and the next thing I knew I honked the horn and slammed on the breaks. I was only going 35 (the speed limit) and a little less when I hit her but I did hit her. My front passenger corner hit her back passenger side. My glasses came flying off my face, my phone flew out of my hand and I was screaming when I realized it was over. My car was still running and I was just sitting there, crying. The cross traffic started to drive around me and I just looked at all these drivers passing me by and looking at me, but doing nothing to help. So a minute later I pulled myself together enough to drive the car over to the side of the intersection and the van had moved off to the side as well. I looked around to grab my glasses and found my phone and battery on the floor. I walked around and saw my lovely car and then burst into tears again because my first thought was about everything we just went through and had I just been in an accident that would potentially mess it all up?!?!?! The next thing I knew there was a lady asking if I was alright and she helped me to dial 911 and then I heard the sirens. The EMT's were all around me checking me out and pretty sure from all the crying that I was hurt. I kept saying that I was fine, I was just really worried about my potentially being pregnant. They still checked me all out and cleared me. Then the police started asking questions and I was telling the same story about 15 times. It was all such a blur and the tow-truck was suddenly there to take my car away. I snapped the picture above on my cell phone before they drove off to the impound lot. Of course during all this Jay was calling to say he was on his way home and I was crying/talking to him that I had just been in an accident and he needed to get out to Surprise (in rush hour traffic, on a Friday, from north-central Phoenix) as fast as he could.
The police gave me the other driver's information and I asked what happened next. I've never been in an accident and I wasn't sure how things went from here. He said that it hadn't been anything major and that if anyone was going to get a ticket it wouldn't be me because I had the right of way. Then the other driver and her husband came across the street and we actually hugged and said that we were both sorry this happened and glad that everyone was OK. She had been alone in the van so her kiddos weren't harmed at all. But to show what a small world, they also told me they were moving into the neighborhood of my school over break and were enrolling their 1st grader at my school after Fall Break. Luckily I have the highest number of students right now, so I shouldn't get her. But what a small world, huh?
So everyone is leaving the scene and they all keep asking me if someone is coming to pick me up. I keep telling them my husband is on the way and Jay keeps calling because he doesn't know Surprise at all and is getting lost as he is trying to make his way out. So I'm sitting there with my stuff on the corner and I think that maybe my co-worker Amy might still be at school. I call and she was just leaving, but close enough to come and sit with me until Jay arrived. She was amazing and I felt so glad to have someone there that I knew. Jay showed up a few minutes later and I just fell into his arms. Needless to say it was a long way to start the evening.
I only have some neck pain on Saturday and some tenderness on my chest from where the seat belt held me back. Other than that I haven't had any issues. We got a call Friday night from the other driver's insurance and she took full responsibility for the accident. So we have the choice to have either insurance company pay for the damages and we also have rental car coverage. Of course I am waiting to get my ID back from the Surprise Police Department. I got home Friday and realized that my ID wasn't in my purse. I had remembered both officers asking for it to write down information, but then I thought I got it back. Around 11ish Friday night the officer called to say he had found my ID in his car and I could pick it up over the weekend. Well that turned out to be wrong. Jay and I drove all the way out there to be told that they had locked it up in evidence and I can't get it until Tuesday, since today is Columbus Day! The joys of being an adult, right?!?!
So that is how my Fall Break began. Not the best, but I walked away from it, as did the other driver, and everything is going to be taken care of, hopefully without us having to spend any money! Something like this makes you count your blessings again and again. I'm hopeful that we still have a good chance of getting good news on Thursday, but also preparing myself for the not-so-good news too. Oh and I don't think I shared that we got some good news the other day. the other embryos that we didn't transfer continued to grow at a good rate and we have 3 frozen embryos waiting for us if we choose/need them in the future. That was really exciting to hear and we have some hope that things will work out as God has planned! Drive safe my friends and enjoy this precious life God has given us! :)
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