Totalled...
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Update, very long read, sorry, I need to vent a bit:
So Rae was not allowed to breastfeed for 48 hours after the blue dye test. This turned out to be hell on earth.
Piper was okay on the bottle, for the first six hours. Then she had had enough. Mama/Milk Truck would only have to walk past, or speak in the same room, and Piper would lose it. If Mama picked her up, she'd lose it even more. Only I could calm her down, and feed her the bottle, once I caught her eye. She'd keep screaming until she finally looked me in the eye, then whimper and take the bottle, not happy about it, but at least taking it. Mama wasn't much better, she of course had to keep her breasts "active" by pumping them, and dumping the milk down the sink. She cried every time, and of course when Piper was screaming at her, it made her cry too. A whole lot of tears have been shed here over the past few days... The "snowballing" emotional trauma all this has caused is incredible.
So I had to work Monday, and the 48 hour thing wasn't up till midnight Monday night. So Monday morning proved to be ultra-nasty for the girls at home... I finally suggested (we stay in touch via IM while I'm at work) that she call her health nurses and ask what she should do, or if the entire 48 hour thing was absolutely necessary. After describing to the nurse what was going on, she said get that child into the Children's Hospital.
Meanwhile, the phone was ringing off the hook for Reneé. Insurance adjusters, concerned relatives, concerned Daddy, etc. etc. She also had no wheels, since it is sitting totalled at the shop. Finally around 1:00pm, the phone rang, Rae picked it up, and it went something like this:
Hello, I'm calling for Jane Doe (name changed, the name of the chick in the BMW)?
Well this is'nt her, this is the lady she rear-ended.
Oh so this is Reneé Mackay?
Yes, I've been trying to get a hold of you.
Oh, what can I do for you?
Rent me a vehicle. Your insured totalled mine, I have an eight year old to pick up at school at 3:30, and I have a six week old that is supposed to be at the Children's Hospital right now, and I have no truck. Rent me some wheels, NOW.
errr....... Yes Ma'am.
And I picked up a 2005 F150 4x4 4-door pickup 1/2 an hour later, from the Enterprise rental car place across the street from my shop. Nice truck, for a Ford. This went kinda funny, I walked in, told them Jane Doe's name & the insurance claim number, they poked their 'puter for a few minutes & said "No problem, what do you normally drive?"
An SUV. '93 S-Blazer.
(punches computer a bit more) Oooo... I don't have any SUV's right now, all I have is a Hyundai Excel, Kia Rio, or that black F150 outside.
I just gave him a blank "WTF do you think I want" kinda stare until he said "F150 it is!",
So I went & picked up Chayse from school (he loved that... shiny new black F150, hanging out the window... Hey John!!! Hey Steve!!! Check out the truck!) and went home, we packed up all we needed, and headed to the Children's Hospital.
After the 1.5 hour wait, we got in, explained all to a nurse and she tooks some vitals. Then a Resident came in, we explained all again, and he poked & prodded a bit, and said "K I'll fill in the Doctor and he'll be in in a while." A "while" later he finally shows up, inquires a few things, pokes & prods, etc. By then it's 10:00, and he says "Give that baby some breast milk and we'll observe."
Finally..... BOOB!!!!
An hour later Piper was happy as a pig in ****. The doc came back, was like "where'd your baby go and who's is this happy one?" and let us go. Six hours.
We got home at 12:30, exhausted, had a bite to eat, and went to bed. Chayse was so tired at school today that he got sent home at noon, poor guy. Today Rae is still real sore & stiff, and Piper is better, but still a bit crabby. 6 weeks old and received major jarring G-forces in rapid succesion both forward and backwards. Nice way to start life eh? I'm really worried about what kind of long term effects this is going to have... two years from now? Five? Ten? She may "grow into" any number of symptoms or whatever... loud noises now make her jump big as it is....
So anyway, today, one of the adjusters calls me up at the shop, wanting to come inspect the Blazer. No problem, come on down. He also asked if I thought it was totalled, I said absolutely, the frame is bent. Alright, be there in an hour.
I was busy when he got there, so he had a look and then I came outside.
He says ya, it's toast, with that frame like that. To bad you had that hitch.
Pardon me?
Well the hitch makes it so much worse.
You gotta be kidding me... look at that thing, it's pointing almost straight down! That BMW hit it at 80 km/hr! That hitch went down, lifting the front of the truck off the ground, and channeled all the impact to the frame, look even the rear door isn't bent!
No no no, he says, if you didn't have a hitch, It would be repairable, the damage wouldn't be so bad.
Oh so because the frame's bent, rear end and driveshaft moved forward and broke the tranny, and everyone walked away, that's better than the BMW going right under the back of the truck, lifting it up, back of truck goes through the windshield, shattered glass and crushed rear Blazer seats, possible killing or injuring Piper more, killing the BMW driver, both vehicles then careening forward into the Jeep, and since the Blazer nose is down, possibly putting the back of the Jeep through the winshield of the Blazer and killing Reneé?!?! Didn't you take Physics in school? How about ethics? A repairable truck is better than injured or killed people?
What a moron. *sigh*
So I took pictures of the truck like some of you have asked.
This first one shows the back of the truck. Notice the twisted bumper, and the receiver hitch pointing almost straight down. (you'll notice in the pics that it snowed heavily Sunday night, the roads were dry & clear before that and at the time of the accident).
This next one shows the bent frame, a little hard to see, but you can see the freshly broken off undercoating from the bend...
Next, this one shows, although very hard to see in the crappy photo I took, a large crease, about 3 inches across, six to eight inches long, between the gas door and the fenderwell trim, running "up" from the Hot Wheels sticker towards the camera...
This one shows another stress crease, small, about the size of a golf ball, and poking out rather than in, right at the top of where the rear door and the rear window meet...
And lastly, this one shows the front end damage. Notice the bent bumper, folded up hood (can't get it open either), crushed fender, smashed grill, etc.
And the saga continues...
So Rae was not allowed to breastfeed for 48 hours after the blue dye test. This turned out to be hell on earth.
Piper was okay on the bottle, for the first six hours. Then she had had enough. Mama/Milk Truck would only have to walk past, or speak in the same room, and Piper would lose it. If Mama picked her up, she'd lose it even more. Only I could calm her down, and feed her the bottle, once I caught her eye. She'd keep screaming until she finally looked me in the eye, then whimper and take the bottle, not happy about it, but at least taking it. Mama wasn't much better, she of course had to keep her breasts "active" by pumping them, and dumping the milk down the sink. She cried every time, and of course when Piper was screaming at her, it made her cry too. A whole lot of tears have been shed here over the past few days... The "snowballing" emotional trauma all this has caused is incredible.
So I had to work Monday, and the 48 hour thing wasn't up till midnight Monday night. So Monday morning proved to be ultra-nasty for the girls at home... I finally suggested (we stay in touch via IM while I'm at work) that she call her health nurses and ask what she should do, or if the entire 48 hour thing was absolutely necessary. After describing to the nurse what was going on, she said get that child into the Children's Hospital.
Meanwhile, the phone was ringing off the hook for Reneé. Insurance adjusters, concerned relatives, concerned Daddy, etc. etc. She also had no wheels, since it is sitting totalled at the shop. Finally around 1:00pm, the phone rang, Rae picked it up, and it went something like this:
Hello, I'm calling for Jane Doe (name changed, the name of the chick in the BMW)?
Well this is'nt her, this is the lady she rear-ended.
Oh so this is Reneé Mackay?
Yes, I've been trying to get a hold of you.
Oh, what can I do for you?
Rent me a vehicle. Your insured totalled mine, I have an eight year old to pick up at school at 3:30, and I have a six week old that is supposed to be at the Children's Hospital right now, and I have no truck. Rent me some wheels, NOW.
errr....... Yes Ma'am.
And I picked up a 2005 F150 4x4 4-door pickup 1/2 an hour later, from the Enterprise rental car place across the street from my shop. Nice truck, for a Ford. This went kinda funny, I walked in, told them Jane Doe's name & the insurance claim number, they poked their 'puter for a few minutes & said "No problem, what do you normally drive?"
An SUV. '93 S-Blazer.
(punches computer a bit more) Oooo... I don't have any SUV's right now, all I have is a Hyundai Excel, Kia Rio, or that black F150 outside.
I just gave him a blank "WTF do you think I want" kinda stare until he said "F150 it is!",
So I went & picked up Chayse from school (he loved that... shiny new black F150, hanging out the window... Hey John!!! Hey Steve!!! Check out the truck!) and went home, we packed up all we needed, and headed to the Children's Hospital.
After the 1.5 hour wait, we got in, explained all to a nurse and she tooks some vitals. Then a Resident came in, we explained all again, and he poked & prodded a bit, and said "K I'll fill in the Doctor and he'll be in in a while." A "while" later he finally shows up, inquires a few things, pokes & prods, etc. By then it's 10:00, and he says "Give that baby some breast milk and we'll observe."
Finally..... BOOB!!!!
An hour later Piper was happy as a pig in ****. The doc came back, was like "where'd your baby go and who's is this happy one?" and let us go. Six hours.
We got home at 12:30, exhausted, had a bite to eat, and went to bed. Chayse was so tired at school today that he got sent home at noon, poor guy. Today Rae is still real sore & stiff, and Piper is better, but still a bit crabby. 6 weeks old and received major jarring G-forces in rapid succesion both forward and backwards. Nice way to start life eh? I'm really worried about what kind of long term effects this is going to have... two years from now? Five? Ten? She may "grow into" any number of symptoms or whatever... loud noises now make her jump big as it is....
So anyway, today, one of the adjusters calls me up at the shop, wanting to come inspect the Blazer. No problem, come on down. He also asked if I thought it was totalled, I said absolutely, the frame is bent. Alright, be there in an hour.
I was busy when he got there, so he had a look and then I came outside.
He says ya, it's toast, with that frame like that. To bad you had that hitch.
Pardon me?
Well the hitch makes it so much worse.
You gotta be kidding me... look at that thing, it's pointing almost straight down! That BMW hit it at 80 km/hr! That hitch went down, lifting the front of the truck off the ground, and channeled all the impact to the frame, look even the rear door isn't bent!
No no no, he says, if you didn't have a hitch, It would be repairable, the damage wouldn't be so bad.
Oh so because the frame's bent, rear end and driveshaft moved forward and broke the tranny, and everyone walked away, that's better than the BMW going right under the back of the truck, lifting it up, back of truck goes through the windshield, shattered glass and crushed rear Blazer seats, possible killing or injuring Piper more, killing the BMW driver, both vehicles then careening forward into the Jeep, and since the Blazer nose is down, possibly putting the back of the Jeep through the winshield of the Blazer and killing Reneé?!?! Didn't you take Physics in school? How about ethics? A repairable truck is better than injured or killed people?
What a moron. *sigh*
So I took pictures of the truck like some of you have asked.
This first one shows the back of the truck. Notice the twisted bumper, and the receiver hitch pointing almost straight down. (you'll notice in the pics that it snowed heavily Sunday night, the roads were dry & clear before that and at the time of the accident).
This next one shows the bent frame, a little hard to see, but you can see the freshly broken off undercoating from the bend...
Next, this one shows, although very hard to see in the crappy photo I took, a large crease, about 3 inches across, six to eight inches long, between the gas door and the fenderwell trim, running "up" from the Hot Wheels sticker towards the camera...
This one shows another stress crease, small, about the size of a golf ball, and poking out rather than in, right at the top of where the rear door and the rear window meet...
And lastly, this one shows the front end damage. Notice the bent bumper, folded up hood (can't get it open either), crushed fender, smashed grill, etc.
And the saga continues...
2000 Watt CAFz'r
Joined: May 2003
Posts: 2,819
Best of luck to you all,my friends!!
I'll maybe try to stop by the shop in the near future...somewhere in amongst the busy-ness!
Yeah, most insurance adjusters don't stop to think of the picture in front of them,but look at how much it will cost to fix the damage....screw how many lives were saved.... [img]graemlins/banghead.gif[/img]
Anyway...My prayers are with Rae and Piper for a seamless recovery and with you for patience..hehe..
I'll maybe try to stop by the shop in the near future...somewhere in amongst the busy-ness!
Yeah, most insurance adjusters don't stop to think of the picture in front of them,but look at how much it will cost to fix the damage....screw how many lives were saved.... [img]graemlins/banghead.gif[/img]
Anyway...My prayers are with Rae and Piper for a seamless recovery and with you for patience..hehe..
That sucks man! 
Glad to hear that everyone is alright. [img]graemlins/wavey.gif[/img]
There are so many stupid A$$ drivers out there, and because she was driving a BMW you know she was one of them, who thinks she is better then everyone else.
Glad to hear that everyone is alright. [img]graemlins/wavey.gif[/img]
There are so many stupid A$$ drivers out there, and because she was driving a BMW you know she was one of them, who thinks she is better then everyone else.
