Ah! Scusa me! So sorry for not having blogged in…one month and a day! Bad Liz! Tee hee. Things have been SO insanely hectic ever since early May. Let me give y’all the low-down:

May 9th: Went to my counseling appointment with my grief therapist, Dawn. (Wonderful session by the way. My Mom and I decided to stop in Riverside on our way to San Diego since we were driving down and starting our trip on Father’s Day. We bought a boquet for my Dad’s site, and another for my Grandpa and Grandma’s site, too. We visited my Dad’s site and it was a feeling I’d never experienced before. I couldn’t describe it in writing to save the life of me, but it was…bliss. Tranquility. Peace. And, a bit of closure.)

Anyway! Back to the 9th. At the end of my sesssion, as I go to drive home, I’m in a left turn lane which has 2 lanes. I was in the outside lane, and an old lady in a Cadillac was in the inside turn lane. So the light turns green, and half-way through the turn, right as we’re coming out of the intersection, I hear this huge SMACK sound and my body jerked to the right, then to the left, and I smacked the left side of my head on my driver’s side window trying to get back into my lane. She had hit me with such speed and force that she actually moved my SUV an entire lane over. THANK GOODNESS no one was in that far right lane because I would have been sandwiched and something horrible would certainly have happened. I called my Mom, she came down immediately, and we all exchanged information. The kicker? This old cunt never ONCE apologized to me. Not one time.

The thing I’m the most angry about is the fact that my back AND neck are messed up now. I’d had my back injury from cheer since 2003, but over time it eventually healed on it’s own. I’ve never had any neck injuries from cheer (shocker), so I knew this was a result of the sideways whiplash. My attorney’s sent me to an amazing chiropractor and, get this — his daughter Megan and I used to cheer together for 2 years! Haha, small, small world it is. He knows all about cheer injuries so he’s a gem to me. And, he’s by far THE MOST thorough chiropractor I have ever been to in my life. He’s number 5, and surpasses the others like you wouldn’t believe.

On my first visit, he took a series of x-rays. Some of my neck, upper, mid, and lower back. There was a total of 9. When he got them back, we didn’t like what we saw. I’ve lost 100% of the natural curvature in my neck, and I have scoliosis (or curving of the spine. It’s just a medical term, not a serious diagnosis thank goodness, but a major and important observation). I looked at my bone scans and MRI’s from 2003 and 2004, and my spine was PERFECTLY aligned. No curves at all. Something obviously happened between then and now, and this recent car accident is the ONLY major source of hard impact/accident/injury I’ve had in the past 4-5 years. Doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out what fucked up my spine and neck.

UGH. I could kill myself — I knew I had a TON to blog about but I’m running on empty all of a sudden! I guess I’ll end this entry but will definitely edit it when the rest of my, “stuff to blog about list” comes back to mind!