EPTAll right. In early February, my car was totalled by a drunk driver who hit me at 7:45 in the morning while I was on my way to school. He hit my driver's side front door, knocking me into a ditch. My kneecap was shattered with several torn ligaments and ripped tendons, my ribs were heavily bruised, and I had a huge huge gash on my right forearm from where I fell into the glass (yes I was wearing seatbelt). The driver of the other car (truck) and his passenger were both put into ICU for a week. The drunkenness must have remained on them a few weeks after because they had the balls to say it was my fault, which was quickly proven wrong. I got my settlement, they got their prison time.
I flew to Tampa to a surgeon my doctor recommended me to, and he said it was very very unlikely I would walk again. But he put a plate under my kneecap and some sort of (bad english) adhesive? to try and keep the shards of my kneecap together. I was in rollerzia mode for about 6 months, then moved up to crutches (which I've been on ever since). A few weeks ago, I went back to my surgeon and he said my knee was drastically improving (wolverine, folks. wolverine). I was informed that I may yet be able to walk by August/September of 2007 as long as I kept pressure off my knee.
Today, Thursday, September 7, my friend was driving me home from school, and some jackass pulls out in front of us to turn into a gas station. We're going 50-55 mph in our lane and he's going about 30 while turning. He stops in the middle of our lane 20 feet away, and there's no amount of turning that could clear us and no amount of brakes he wasn't already applying that could stop the car. Head-on collision. My friend's head hit the steering wheel and he was knocked back with a broken nose. Still wearing my seatbelt, I was jerked forward hard enough for my knee to ram straight into the console. The pain from a flame hitting me in the face and my left arm and the pain from my knee were the last things I remembered before I blacked out. I woke up in the hospital a couple of hours later to a doctor telling me that everything that happened according to the police report. I have really bad whiplash, a bad cut under my left eye, my left arm is very burnt and swollen, and my left leg is officially permanently out of commission, including an amplified version of what happened to my kneecap in February and lots of other fractures.
I'm going to be in and out of the hospital for the next few weeks. I just thought this event was important enough to share in case anyone starts looking for me.
Edit: I'm still really shaken up right now, so I hope this all made sense.
