Long Nights at the ER.

[BryanP]

Bleah.

2pm Friday - I'm driving back from out of town when the cell phone rings. It's a lady who just got my phone # from my wife, who is pinned in her car. Apparently she decided to get in her Corolla and play chicken with a dump truck. The Corolla lost.

We spent last night at the Vanderbilt ER. She was incredibly lucky. Other than bumps, bruises, contusions and seat-belt burn (the wreck beat the crap out of her) the worst thing she has a is a 7" wide horizontal laceration below her left knee. And that was "just a flesh wound." No damage to the knee or tendons & what not. Sutures and staples and home she goes with crutches and a leg immobilizer. Granted getting to this point took 15 hours. We got home about 5am. She's still crashed out (no pun intended). I'm about to go fill some prescriptions. Now the fun starts - nurses make lousy patients. *sigh*

Anyway, the moral is that cars and guns do have something else in common. If you follow the safety rules (and throw in a healthy dash of luck in some cases) when bad things happen you'll hopefully be ok.

Sleepy Bryan is off to the drug store.

 

[critter]

She's lucky! Glad she's ok.

 

[Norton]

Wow....glad she's not too badly injured. Give her our best....

 

[cslinger]

Norton,

Funny, I seem to remember a certain brother of your's wife having an affinity for driving littly bitty cars into state dumptrucks.

Chris

 

[OEF_VET]

I'm glad she's ok.

 

[Chipperman]

Yikes!
Glad she's ok, considering.


Reminder to self: When playing chicken with a dump truck, wear knee pads.

 

[TheeBadOne]

God Speed On Recovery

 

[BryanP]

Thanks for the good thoughts everyone. To kill the time while I wass waiting for prescriptions to be filled I drove a couple of miles down the road to the Bob Pope gun show but I really couldn't get interested in much. I ran in to Bowlcut wandering down the aisles. Just got home with prescriptions but she's still asleep and I have no plans to wake her.

 

[Omnicron]

Last night was not a good night for traffic in TN. As I was leaving Nashville on 65 southbound, I met one wreck where a guy had lost about half the stuuf out of the back of his truck and then farthre down in the northbound side there was a 18 wheeler in the median with dirt covering the road and a car on its side blocking both northbound lanes. YOur wife wasn't alone last night but glad she's gonna be okay.

 

[Archie]

Other comparisons between guns and cars...

Without meaning any disrepect to Mrs. Bryan P....

1. Neither a gun or a seat belt are magical devises to deflect evil or injury. They do assist at need, but only after there is a problem. And they have to be in place to be effective. (Duh.)

2. Paying attention to our surroundings is paramount. We must keep an eye out for both dumptrucks (whatever) and goblins.

I am glad Mrs. BryanP is okay. And Bryan, too, for that matter.

 

[Norton]

Norton,

Funny, I seem to remember a certain brother of your's wife having an affinity for driving littly bitty cars into state dumptrucks.

well, between that and the great West Virginia bear incident...I'm not sure which is a better story....

 

[Spot77]

...And remarkably, we made it back from your fine state of Tenn today with no major airline crashes.


Now, had my wife been flying the plane.....

Chris, what is the series of rivers/lakes/canals just east of Nashville? Looked like some prime fishing, boating, and hunting land, at least from the air....

Oh yeah....I can say that I've gone bear hunting successfully with a Honda CRX......

 

[4v50 Gary]

Playing chicken with a dump truck. Isn't she kinda old to be doing that stuff? Anyway, glad she's OK.

 

[BryanP]

Playing chicken with a dump truck. Isn't she kinda old to be doing that stuff? Anyway, glad she's OK.

Yeah, yeah. I told her that if she really wanted a different car that badly we could have talked it over. *sigh*

 

[earthworm]

Glad MsBryan's OK;prayers for her speed recovery.
The Pope show was PACKED!-my bud & I only stayed an hour &
only things I found of interest were MREs @ $25/case & a 3" S&W .357
with a scope for $400 (WWAAYY overpriced!).