[MommyBeth]

it pours. Well I thought things my finally be starting to turn around again, then slam. My dad has finally found the problem with the water situation at my parents house. There is a piece broken off the jet insert at the bottom of the pipe, which is what is keeping the water from coming into the jet and keeping the water pressure low. So if that is fixable or not is yet unknown.

But my half-sister called today with the news that she had found a radiator for the truck. So my dad headed out to pick that up and the stuff. Well about an hour ago now my mom calls and says "I'm going to tell you something, but I need you to get ahold of yourself right now."

Ok no big deal...I'm thinking some elderly family member in Oklahoma passed away or something happened to one of them and I'll need to be praying. I was most definetly not expecting the bombshell that was coming.

"Dad had a wreck...he's fine. I'm on my way to get him." What is running through my head ok dad is ok...figured he was or otherwise you would've come to my house to tell me. Next concern what about the car. She didn't know at the time...or even what happened. Insert freak out here!!! All I could say was I'll be at your house.....and hung up the phone. I just couldn't keep it together.

After at partially glueing myself back together I came to the realization that Dad had probably called my sister and she had called my mother. Mom told me she was going to work until 6. So I figured she wasn't at home. Dad doesn't have mom's cell number memorized, but knows both my sister's home and cell phone numbers(maybe even her work number, at least her workplace). So I called mom and asked her this. Yes was the answer. So then I asked her to wait for me to get to her house before she went to get him. She was like I'm already to the bridge. So I was then on the defensive of you waited that long to call me then.

Took a little while to type this out as I'm still a bit of a wreck. It shook me up pretty good. It was just not the bombshell I was expecting. This will just give me SMIL something else to tell my dad he can't do. As I got updates I just added them at the bottom of the post.

Update

Just talked to mom again. She said car doesn't look good. But given that I know other than the paint it was in good shape, unless the frame is bent badly it will be fixed. Trying to figure out how to send me a pic from my sis's phone.

Update 2

Finally have story of what happened. Dad was turning left, had a lady blinking a right. Changed her mind went straight and sped-up. Determining fault lies with a judge. Car is still up in the air, but probably done. He said driver's door was warped and he was hit from the passenger side.

[hearts.0nfire]

I'm glad your dad is okay. That is really scary!

[Mrs.Paradise]

Im glad your dad is ok... HUGE SUPER DUPER FREAKING BIG FAT GIANT MONSTER HOOKER FANGBANGER to you and your family!!! Im sooooooooooooo sorry that this happend... its sooooooooooooo scary!!!

[MommaLee]

Glad everyone is okay.

[MommyBeth]

And now we wait. The adjuster for the insurance is going to look at the car today. In some ways I want the car to be fiaxble, in other not. I'm very sentimental about things anway so being preggers isn't helping that. That was the car I took my driver's test in as well as some other special events. We would/will have had the car 16 years in Dec.

Found out that there were actually 3 cars involved. The third was a truck with a trailer and 2 kids in carseat in the back, and it was only "grazed." Dad was driving a 95 Crown Victoria. He was hit acroos the soft part of the front end by a Ford Explorer. What he though was a blinker for a right turn, was a blinker after a lane change. After changing lanes the lady tried to beat the stoplight. So she was speeding. It actually spun dad around until he was facing the direction from which he'd just come.

I would like for the car to be fixable because I'm not ready to stop driving mine yet. My car is a "blue" 95 Crown Victoria. I finally have found a car that I like and I want to drive it until the wheels fall off or I graduate from college. It was the car I took my driver's test in. As well as had many first day of school drop offs in. To me if just feels as if "brown" car is a part of the family. My mom drove it for about 13 years, I drove it for about a year(mine was broken down, and dad wasn't able to work on it), my dad drove it for about a year(once mine was fixed), my husband has driven for about a year. I would also like for the car to be fixable because unfortunately my parents can't afford to have 2 car payments a month and my husband not work, at least part-time. Now while it might sound like I'm trying to just mooch off my parents it is not that way. My husband and I are both full-time students and help them out with things they can't do anymore. Such as yard-mowing and I help mom drive dad back and forth to chemo treatments and doc appointments, so she doesn't have to use up her days at school.

I don't want the car to be fixable because I would get the car my mom has now, or maybe just a newer one than what I have if they buy used. I want the newer car for carseat installs and just the not so large a worry of breaking down on the side of the road. As much as I love my car it does have 327,000 miles on it.

I just so torn, worried, and stressed. And knowing that I have no control over the situation just doesn't help at all. My mom tells me not to worry about it, but how can I not when all she's done is drill into me how "little" money they have. She even did this yesterday when I saw her, before daddy had the wreck, before we even knew he was going anywhere yesterday. So here I sit feeling guilty. I could barely sleep last night because of all the things running through my head..... I know that God has a plan, I just wish I knew why I had to be the one to feel like crap.

Also here's a link to what happened the day before with my Step-MIL.

http://www.justmommies.com/forums/f1...lete-vent.html