She is OK

Well, my sigh of relief did not last long! Maryn was in a car accident Friday Night! She has had a rough year this year with physical health trials--especially lately. Knee surgery, than the quad accident on our vacation, which I still need to blog, she hurt her back and missed a few days of work and now this accident. Really the accident is more of a nuisance than anything else, but that is easy to say after the fact. Of course your heart skips a beat till you get that vital information that all is well. Kelly and I were home watching a movie when she called and I could tell something was wrong when he answered the phone. My first three questions went like this: 1. Is she okay? 2. which one is it? (meaning which daughter) 3. is she doing another April fools joke? Yes, it was necessary to ask! :)

After Maryn related the details, she made us feels comfortable with just staying home while she took her friend to be checked out. She was handling the situation really well, no major drama, which is awesome. We finished our movie and started getting ready for bed. Well, things just went downhill from there. None of us got much sleep--they waited in the ER lobby and we waited at home--all the while thinking that one more hour and they would be home. It was miserable. And we felt so sorry for Maryn! Finally at about 10 AM we had had enough of the slow treatment, we knew where to get her keys so we went down to rescue Maryn. We were so effective that we were able to get her home by about 4 PM! (read sarcastically!) What a terrible ER experience. I know that all ER visit are not that great, but this wins for the worst hospital experience for our family. So after 17 hours in the ER Maryn was able to come home and the first thing she did was take a nap. She deserved it!

So the story is: she was with a friend on the way to the institute dance-they were almost too, so no they didn't make it. The car that hit her had a young girl with a brand new license and she was lost. She was on the phone with a police officer getting directions and when the officer told her to turn, she did (!), straight into Maryn. The car behind Maryn stopped to avoid hitting Maryn and then the car behind that car rear ended the 3rd car. The driver of the 4th car was drunk, had alcohol in the car and so he took off, with the police in pursuit. But the damage to Maryn's car doesn't look that bad. We drove it home so that is good, it just sounds like the door isn't closed!

Now she has to do jump through all the crazy insurance hoops--annoying--but we are just counting our blessings. Once again things could have been bad, and even though this isn't fun to deal with, the important thing is that she is ok.