Friday, February 03, 2006

Blessed

On Wendesday, my Father was in a very bad car accident. He works for a state hospital in NY. Part of his job is overseeing Labs in diefferent parts of the state. He has to drive ALOT.
It was late morning, he was headed to Binghamton. He was doing a pickup and then having lunch with my grandfather, who lives in there. A tractor trailer was driving behind him and my dad was using cruise control at 70 mph. The tractor trailer driver was mad cause my dad had passed him going up a hill (trucks slow down so much going up hill) and then this guy had caught up with him and stayed 40 feet behind him for a while. He went to pass my dad and did it so close he caught the tail end of my dad's car. It spun his car around to the front of the tractor trailer. My dads car was stuck sideways on the front bumper of the tractor trailer and dragged 150ft (approx 400km) going 70 mph(140)
When the truck driver realized he had spun my dad around he easd the gas enuf to throw him off. My dads car went down a 150ft bank, straight down as there was no guardrail.
He got out of the car and walked away. Bruised and shaken, but on his own. My family feels so lucky and thankful to whatever guardian angel was on duty for him.
The truck driver got ticketed. My dads car is Totally screwed, but at least my dear father is ok. He said that he can't stop seeing the grill of the truck when he sleeps. He keeps replaying it over and over in his mind. I hope he will be ok.

This has nothing to do with weight loss but I wanted to write about it.

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