[Highway Star]

Twice in the last 6 months...IN THE SAME CAR!!!!!

I have a '90 LTD I picked up from the original owner about 6 months ago, I use it as a work car. About 2 weeks after I bought it, I was nailed...well the woman behind me was nailed by some girl doing 50 or so. She didn't even hit the brakes, like she wasn't watching the road...I suspect there was a cell phone involved. She hit the woman behind me, then crashed into me, then we all crashed into the F150 in front of me. I got jarred pretty good, and am still dealing with the aftermath, 2 bulging discs in the lumbar area of my back. I take pain pills when it hurts in lieu of an epidural steroid injection. My car was totaled, and I bought it back and fixed it the best I could with JY parts. I hired an attorney to handle making sure that I am compensated for 3 months of physical therapy, about $4000 in lost wages, MRI's, dr. bills, etc, etc.

A few days before xmas I was hit again, same car...this time by a 16 year old girl driving her 328i beamer. She hit me going 30 or so, and judging from how that phone was attached to her face for the hour we waited for the cops, and that she didn't brake at all before hitting me, that she was on her phone too.

My car has been totaled AGAIN...and there is something seriously wrong with my back. With these kinds of accidents, sometimes injuries take a little while to show up...muscles and such spasm and swell, and mask pain or injury. Well this past Sunday night, my back started to really act up. I took some "medicine" and went to bed hoping for some relief the next day. I went to work Monday, and my back hurt so bad I could barely sit. I took another pill, and tried to deal with it. Yesterday I stayed home...it hurt worse than Monday. I called my doctors yesterday and they all told me not to do anything that causes me pain. I told them that everything I do hurts, except laying flat on my back...no joke. I am home again today, and going to my Neuromedical specialist this afternoon. She is going to want to take MRI's again. I am missing work that I can't afford to miss, my back hurts like a MF, I have 1,000 little projects started that I can't touch, I can't play with my kids...etc. This sucks!!!!!

ARRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHH!!!!! HANG THE F UP AND DRIVE!!!!!!!!!!!

Rant over.