UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!

You know...I could probably drive a used car (even a really nice one) my whole life and never get hit like this but nooooooo.....my very first brand new car has to gets SMASHED for no good reason! Argggggh! This happened Thursday afternoon. I was waiting to make a left hand turn onto Crismon heading to pick my kids up from school. There was a SUV also turning left in front of me. The light turned yellow, the SUV made it's turn, I started to roll forward into his place to get ready to make my turn when BAM I got hit head on. I didn't even see it coming! I was so shocked, stunned that it took me several seconds to figure out what had just happened. My air bag exploded in my face, burning my arm and smoke was filling up my car. All of a sudden a witness was yanking my door open to see if I was okay. Everything seemed so surreal at first. I was trying to take it all in and realized I needed to let Anissa know so she could come get the kids and then all I could think about was my burning arm. It swelled up at first and the lady helping me kept saying it was broken. I knew it wasn't but MAN did it hurt! My burn was so mild by comparison to what I've heard other people going through. Even in the middle of all the chaos, my empathy was for them made me want to cry. I couldn't imagine being burned worse than I was. The pain...oh my gosh! Well anyway Weston arrived, then the police and paramedics. Everyone was checked out and then to add insult to injury....I WAS CITED! Can you believe that?! I explained to the officer that I was barely moving, maybe going 0-1 miles per hour (that's practically stationary!) when I WAS HIT still sitting in the left turn lane! The person who hit me (we think was an illegal) didn't have a drivers license. She's NEVER HAD a drivers license! Does she know that we don't drive down the safety lanes in Arizona??!!!! Soooooo frustrating!!!! I'm definitely fighting this one! So anyway, by that evening I could tell I was going to hurt and by the next day, I was really hurting, my neck and back especially. I went in to get checked out, got some really good pain killers and was scheduled for x-rays on Saturday. All my x-rays came back clean so yeah - no brakes! So I guess now it will just take some time to heal and hopefully I will get my car back soon...although it will NEVER be the same. :(

On a positive note.....my gratitude has been greatly strengthened. It could have been so much worse! This certainly wasn't a life threatening situation but it proves just how quickly something like this can happen. I am soooooo grateful that Cole was not in the car with me that day. I'm grateful the other driver was also not seriously hurt. I am so grateful that I'm alive, doing really well all things considered and that I'm still here with my family. I'm grateful I still get to be a mom, a wife, a friend, a daughter, a sister...I'm not ready to give any of that up yet. NOBODY is promised tomorrow and I'm grateful I was given another day!