Safe

It snowed here Thursday night. So Friday was a snow day and there was no school.

The Heretic had a meeting in the state capitol, so I got up early and fixed His breakfast and got His car all scraped off and moved over to the other driveway so it would be out of T's way when she got ready to go to work.

I was just hanging out, visiting with Him as He made His final preparations to leave. T took off for work and I was looking forward to a rare day off to just do "my" stuff.

He was just about ready to leave when the phone rang. It was an odd phone call. Didn't really make a lot of sense at first as I listened to His side of things -- and then it all started to get clear.

T. An accident! A semi! ARE YOU ALL RIGHT?!?!? WHERE ARE YOU???

I was up. Pulling on my jeans. Not thinking. Just moving. Still thinking, "He has to go to His meeting..." Needing to get to her. Moving. Afraid.

Slowly, my heartbeat slowed a little and things started to come into focus a little bit. He wasn't (obviously) going to His meeting. He called the police who told Him there was a sheriff on the way to the scene already, and "NO -- don't even try and get to her. The highway was jammed for miles." So we waited.

She called back. Said she thought she was alright. Sore and stiff but otherwise not hurt badly. Staying in her car and could hear the police car coming. There had been another car that had run into the truck. That other car was badly damaged. The truck's back tire had clipped the front of her car and spun her around and around across three lanes of traffic.

Eventually, she called and said she was on her way home. The other driver -- the one who had caused the whole mess, who had run into the truck and forced him into T, had been taken to the hospital in an ambulance. T was shaken but basically OK and on her way home to us, although unable to handle the stress of driving on the highway. Coming home.

We waited.

And then she was here. Hugs and tears and absolute relief. We all went out to see the car and stand there amazed. Shaking and stunned.

She had to go to the urgent care center and get pain pills and muscle relaxants. And the insurance company has been an absolute PAIN IN THE ASS!!!!

But our T is safe. No reason she should be. But she is. It's enough.

swan