Long Road

This Wednesday night Feb 1st will be 4 weeks since the car accident in Florida. The first week anniversary - Jan 11th hit us pretty hard. We looked at each other at around 9 pm that night and acknowledged the passage - or completion - of one week.

It has been a flurry of emotions this month. Emotions and a strange mix of surrender, bewilderment, acceptance, gratitude, humility, disbelief, resignation - did I mention gratitude?

Seeing the car the day after solidified my impression that there was a certain element of luck or good fortune that it wasn't any worse. We plowed into some lady that missed a stop sign, pulled right in front of us.

The following Tuesday was a bad day when we found out from the Police report that the lady we hit had been drinking. It somehow made it worse.

I've got a fractured left clavicle - collar bone in normal speak. They told me 4 weeks ago that it would take 6 weeks to heal. I have a Dr.'s appt tomorrow. I'll know more.

Crash (Ouch)

Writing this from NY where I'm feeling fortunate to be alive.

After 4 great days visiting my Dad and bro' Clyde in Ft Myers FL, Monika and I were in a serious car accident on Wednesday the 4th. I was driving N on Highway 41 to go back up to N Ft Myers to watch the Rose Bowl. At about 9:00pm a car swung out from the side street Braman - a stop sign - across the 3 Northbound lanes to try and get in the Southbound flow. She didn't make it.

It was just-as-you-would-imagine-it-to-be.

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