Okay, so I already lost a day of work (and blogging) thanks to everything else I had to get done yesterday, and my GERD is still really, really bad, and I'm also suffering from the consequences of caffeine withdrawal. But I managed to pull it together this morning, and at 8:15 I was on my way into work, all ready to give a presentation in front of an item review committee.
At which point, I was promptly involved in a four-car accident.
My car seems to have the most damage, because my car was #3 in the lineup and the only car actually hit by another moving car (#4). I seem to be okay; my Saturn has a very sad-looking rear end at this point, but it's still driveable. My car didn't really do any damage to the other two cars that were involved, because I was at a complete stop when I was hit. I thought at first that my car was completely dead, but that was just because Saturn thoughtfully installs auto shutoffs on their newer models, and so being hit caused my car to turn off and stay off for a short period of time.
So, I'm several hours behind schedule, I'm tied to my cell phone waiting for the insurance adjuster to call me, and I need to contact one of the other accident victims tonight to let her know what's going to happen with the insurance. Oh, and the accident brought on a nice case of extra-upset stomach and general shaken-up-ed-ness.
Blogging will resume when whomever or whatever placed this curse on me decides to have pity on my poor fizzy body and scrambled brain and remove it.
Update: Upon rethinking, I suppose I should look at the silver lining here, and be grateful that I have a lot of friends with medical knowlege (so that they can lend sympathetic and informed support about my GERD), and a boyfriend who works for an auto insurance company (so he can hold my hand, take me through the steps, and figure out plans for saber-rattling against the person who hit me, if need be).
Posted by kswygert at September 24, 2003 10:07 AM