A Touch of Whiplash

[hwango]

On Wednesday, kaiwoklaw and I participated in a chain reaction collision. The pickup truck in front of us stopped and waited to make a left turn, we stopped behind it, and a lumina sedan stopped behind us. Then a jeep crashed into the lumina, which hit us and pushed us into the truck. Since we sort of got pushed under the back of the truck, the hood of kaiwoklaw's car bent and her headlights were shoved out of position, but the overall frame of the car looks like it's okay. There's some damage to the back where the lumina hit us, too. Not sure how severe the damage is, but it got towed away and some of her friends were kind enough to come rescue us off the side of the street.

I was fine for several hours after the accident, but as more time goes by my neck has gotten really sore. What am I supposed to do for whiplash - heat or cold? Ow.

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[krzzl.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I called them back, and they're sending hwango a medical claim form in case it gets worse. I was a little sore, but it's mostly gone, and some of that may have been from sleeping badly on a plane the day before.

Every time I see someone on a cellphone in a car now I think to myself "it's people like you that are the reason I'm in the mess I'm in now..."