After a wonderful Christmas with the family, Richard and I had a sucky New Year. We both got the stomach virus that was going around SLC. It consisted of vomiting and major diarrhea, you cannot go more than a room away from a bathroom because there is no warning when it comes…it just comes!!! It causes you to get extremely dehydrated, which physiologically makes your muscles cramp. So not only are you constantly expelling liquid from both ends but every muscle in your body is aching. Needless we celebrated our New Years hooked up to IVs in the Emergency Room at Pioneer Valley Hospital in complete misery.
After recovering from that we continued life as normal, but I had the added bonus to plan for a wedding. My soon to be sister-in-law is getting married in September so we planned to go to bridal fairs together. I never realized how much a person can spend on a wedding…it is insane!!!! I want a nice wedding to remember-special to Richard and me, and that is what we are going to have… Our wedding.
To top off the New Year Richard's grand parents give him a truck, at no cost, just gives it to him. As he pulls in the drive way it dies. A week and a couple hundred later it works. Then a week after that on the way to the hospital the clutch goes. So another week and another couple hundred and it works. Well something was still not right so yet another week and another hundred and now it works just fine…knock on wood.
Well on Jan 26 around 2pm on my way home from work a (here come the racial slurs) stupid un-insured non-english speaking Mexican runs a red light and smashes…let me repeat SMASHES into my car. I get out to look at the damage and he says, “I from mexico…no insurance… I pay… I pay…give me your number…I pay.” Luckily for me there was a cop who saw the accident and came over. I had to file a police report-that whole shebang. I hit my head on the side of the car and got a major head ache and had to go to the hospital (Pioneer Valley, home away from home) There I got checked out with nothing but whip-lash. But my head has not stopped hurting so more medical testing is being looked into. Here are some pictures of the car. I was hit on the driver’s side front tire to the end of the front end, it shifted everything over by about 6 inches. My guess is that I will need a new hood, bumper, and 2 fenders, a door, and a window.
So I want to make sure that everyone else is having a better year so far than I am!!!! And you all better be. I love you and wish you the best.
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Sorry babe but car is totaled!
Not that I'm a huge car expert, but isn't it better if it's totaled? I mean, isn't it like a car "never really recovers" from a wreck??? So maybe the silver lineing...:-)
To answer Bunny's question: yes and no. It really depends on a number factors, such as: (1) age of car, (2) type of repair needed, (3) how much still owing on car loan.
Jeff's red car which is completely paid off was totaled last year, but the cost of the repair was only $300 more than the value of the car. So we worked with the repair facility--they lowered the repair amount to just under the insurance value amount. That way the insurance co. paid for the repair instead of totalling the car and we just paid the difference.
Dude, i am soo sorry that your having such a crapy year! :) but hey! your getting married!! :) And that's always fun. heh heh
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