As of Tuesday night, now more of almost anything for me for a while. On my way home from work that night about 2 miles from home, I crested a hill and there was a truck in each lane. I swerved a bit but we still collided. I was going at about 55 mph, im not sure how fast they were going. I never lost conciousness through the hole thing. I'm glad I had on my seatbelt and the airbags were working. Since my face slammed forward into the airbag in impact. Then my truck did a 180* turn into the ditch. As soon as the movement stopped tried opening the door, I wouldn't budge and I oulf feel it smashed up. So I tried crawling up through the window, but I saw blood running from my face and a sharp pain in my left hip and right foot. So I stopped and called 911 asking for an ambulance. I disnt know how any one else was until we got to the hospital. Which 2 of us ended up getting taken by ambulance to Columbia. In the end I ended up with a broken right ankle, left hip was stretched and bruised, with small cuts everywhere, but the worst. I had a 2mm piece of glass pierce my left eye and bounce off my lense making it haze over. I was sent home after the surgery yesterday from having the glass removed, the damaged lense removed, and the hole stitched shut. I go back tomorrow to get my eye checked up on. And then Wednesday to get my ankle looked at again when the swelling goes down to see if it will need surgery or not. There's one broken bone in there that's very slightly skewed and they don't know for now if they can do anything better about it.
So for now I have no vision in my left eye except for light and very little shadow. In a couple months they will try putting in a new lense and see it that'll help get my vision close to normal. So for now I camt lean forward or lift more than a few pounds to keep the pressure off that eye. And I have a bum foot I can't put pressure in incase I loose my balance. There's going to be a lot a lounging around for me.
Seat belts and airbags to save lives and reduce damage. I happened to know the drivers of the other two trucks pretty well. Makes a bit of a predicament between being angry at them and hoping they get better and forgiving them. But the one I hade a head on with ended up with several places stitches up, a broke ankle, and a major concussions along with many more bruises and scrapes than I. He was just released today. I wore my seatbelt, he didn't.
Here's a couple of pictures incase anyone wants to see.my ankle looked like I was storing a baseball I there. And all the highway patrol, first responders, nurses and doctors said they've never seen someone in as good of mood and so talkative for what had just happened. I was even trying to help them a bit since I have so much trouble sitting still and doing nothing.
Kyle
