[stevem53]

For a moment there I thought my troubes with pd were over

I was on a two lane one way highway, going around a winding curve, and the young girl on the right of me decides to take a right to the rotary, and slammed into my right rear quarter..almost rolls me over, spun me around on a 45 degree angle, heading towards the sidewalk on the right hand side of the street, over the curb, on the sidewalk, through a wooden fence, and came to rest on top of a two foot cement wall..The truck is totaled

Very humbling, I found out how vulnerable we are with pd...I was really taken aback by it..It was a real eye opener

The rescue wagon came and they put a neck brace around my neck...ugh!!!!!..Then they straped me down, and put me in the wagon..I less that 10 minutes, I was so uncomfortabe, strapped down, with that God awful neck brace on..I was so uncomfortble I thought I was going to lose my mind..So I ask the EMT if I could sit up, and after some complaining, and pleading with him he let me sit up..Then he gave me that "I could lose my license for allowing you to sit up" speech.......I understood his situation, but being strapped down with an uncomfortable collar around my neck was making me insane

The hospital triage was loaded with beligerant drunks who wouldnt shut up..I knew I would be there all night, so I told them I wanted to leave, so they signed me out, so when I got home, my girlfriend took me to another hospital in Fall River Ma, where I was in and out in an hour..I should have known better than to go to Rhode Island Hospital, the place is a zoo..They checked my blood pressure, at the scene, and it was 190/80..I think I was shook up a bit

I wonder if that girl was on her cell phone yakking away, cuz where and how the crash happened, it should have never happened..It caught me completely by surprise

It made me think about how vulnerable we are with pd..How much anxiety it can cause, and how much crap Im going to go through to make it right again..I realized that if I got hurt real bad. Id be strapped down, uncomforable as all hell, in pain, and fear..and in the hands of who knows who

I have a long day ahead of me tomorrow, that I am not looking foward to