January 14, 2004

• eye doctors and other things.

  
  

  Yesterday I had a eye app.  My eyes are crappy,  lately driving at night, road signs are getting a little blurry.  I’ve worn glasses since 7th grade so by now I know when I need a new prescription.  It doesn’t take a genius if you know what I mean.  Anyway, Bear went with me since my eyes would be dilated and I wouldn’t be able to see clearly to drive home.  While I was in the waiting room (waiting, duh!) for the drops to completely dilate my pupils a lady came in and told everyone there was a pretty bad car accident on Hwy 65.  Cops, ambulances everything.  So everyone in the waiting room, including the receptionest, starts discussing how bad and how many accidents are happening on hwy 65.  There are two spots in town that have accidents every couple of weeks and that’s alot for a town that only has a population of just over 2000.  They are always in the same two places and everyone it seems has a solution, but until my moms bad accident last summer nothing was done. (I went to the mayor, the editor of the paper, the chief of police and the district manager of wal-mart and had the left turn lane closed coming out of Wal-Mart.  Now you have to go to the stop light.  That alone cut the accidents in half.)  So we did what everyone does, all of the patients sat in the waiting room and fixed all the traffic problems, easy as pie.  It only took a few minutes and we had  accomplished what the city government hasn’t been able to do for years.  Damn, we’re just that good.  I got my new prescription and Barry and I left.  Now by this time my pupils are so dilated there is barely any iris showing at all.  I look like my eyes are totally black instead of brown and I can’t see because the light hurts my eyes so bad I have to either keep them closed or squint.  No biggy though, Barry and I plan on going home and “napping” for a couple of hours and by then it will have worn off.  Good plan huh!   We get home, I’m heading for the bedroom and Barry says are you going to check the messages. Sure, no prob.  IT’S THE HOSPITOL!  MY DAD WAS IN THE ACCIDENT!  I was freaking out, he is after all 82.  Then they let me talk to him and he sounded great, just irritated that the paramedics made him go to the emergency room.  We rushed up to the hospitol and sure enough he was fine.  They did precautionary x-rays and blood work to make sure his heart wasn’t bruised from the seat belt and then several hours later released him.  I, however had the damn eye dilation thing going on, the entire hospitol is lit up like a stadium night game and by the time we left I not only had the headache from hell, I was nauseuos as well.  My nerves were shot cause dad can really be a pill when he isn’t happy, and I still have to think about all the bullshit I’m going to have to go thru in the next few weeks dealing with the insurance company, bank, etc.  Not to mention dad is without a vehicle and is going to drive me crazy.  The good thing, if there is one, the accident was not his fault.  Apparently he was next to a semi in the inside lane of the hwy, the truck was in the outside lane.  The car that caused the accident made a right turn in front of the semi thinking that no-one was in the inside lane and he could slip over quick enough.  The semi slammed on his brakes barely missing the car.  My dad didn’t have time to stop since it popped out right in front of him with no warning.  Luckily the woman driving the car wasn’t hurt to badly either.  I guess now I have to go pick up the accident report and start the next phase of stress.  Whoopee!   AND Thank God it wasn’t worse.  And how was your day? 

  
  

  signed, thank the lord I’m not planning a funeral and can I have my boring life back!

  
  

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