Another Accident....

My Daughter has had her first car accident.
She was not hurt(thank god), and the accident was not her fault (yah!!), however it has been and will be a total inconvenience for her and for me.

Today by 10:30, I have had at least 6 calls from different auto-body repair and medical (chiropractic ) repair. Austin had 15 calls concerning the same thing! This is what I consider assault and abuse of one’s time and sanity!
It is like a feeding frenzy! They smell a little bit of burnt rubber and hear the crunch of metal against metal and the vultures swarm and circle hoping to land for smorgasbord of green that may have bled from the pockets the insurance company.
It is ridiculous to have to deal with the vultures, beating them off with a stick, telling them point blank that they are ambulance chasers and need to find another victim. I am tired of it! And the mail has not started yet!
Now I know these vultures have to do their job, but I mean really! 21 calls total before 10:30?? What happened to privacy! We have privacy laws protecting us from people having access to our medical records without our permission, privacy laws for employers to follow about our employment, why cannot we have privacy for accidents we have? If she was hurt, I have a doctor that we can go to. If she had gotten seriously hurt then the hospital would have been the next choice.
I am not going to send her to some fly-by-night phone call chiropractor that may have gotten their degree from a mail order catalog! I would have taken her to her trusted doctor and if need be, he could refer me to what ever specialist needed to assist her in her recovery.
I am sure there are people, who do not have regular doctors and may appreciate a call or two, but maybe not 20 of them, but who knows they may like the attention. Maybe they want to sock it to the other person, especially if it means sucking money out of an insurance company.
Don’t get me wrong, I am not in any way shape or form have an “in” with the insurance company, I don’t work for them nor do I advertise for them. I just don’t believe in getting money for something that is contrived by a scare tactic or that was not deserved in any way shape or form.
But, if it was “needed”, by all means she would have been in the hospital getting what ever medical attention needed, and the insurance company would have covered it.

I am just glad that the other guy had insurance. His insurance has been very nice to me and my daughter (I know I am just a claim number) and they have handled this with the up-most professionalism.
They have totaled her car; she has only had this car for about 4 months. The check thy provided was at least 100.00 more that what she originally paid for the car (we have already deposited the check) , so we have begun looking for another car. They have given us a week and a half to find another car before they take the broken one. Her car is still drivable and it the damage caused did not seem it would have totaled the car, but the insurance stated that inside damage may have incurred which will move the price even higher, so it was best to total it.

So now we are franticly looking for another car. One that runs and one that is good on gas; hopefully the calls will stop, the mail will slow; such a pain;
I am so thankful that she was not hurt…

thoughts

I cannot sleep… and yet I sleep way too much
I cannot cry… or I cry all of the time
I cannot laugh… or I laugh not enough
I cannot sing… well never could anyway
I cannot hear…. Yet I listen
I cannot live…. Yet I do