The 1st bit of the night as told by laura incase the link didn't work =)

[phoenix_arose]

laura and lindsey vs. bull...
i wanted to call it laura and lindsey vs cow,... because that sounds funnier... but it was a bull...

so, we were going out to the lake house for 4th of july festivities. yay 4th of july... then the rest of the family said they weren't going, but we decided to go anyway for a bit of relaxation. i will be writing this into the series of short stories that i haven't actually written down yet.

dinner was great, and around 10, we left the lake house to head home. we took a different route than she normally did because it was supposed to be a straight shot. little did we know that we were getting on to one of the most dangerous stretches of road out there in central texas.

we got to Marble Falls and went through okay, got out of MF and set the cruise at the speed limit. we were having very lively conversation, and we rounded a corner and all of a sudden, I saw a pair of eyes floating about three feet above my head in front of me, lindsey screamed, i realized what it was, i screamed, then i remember pushing on the brakes and turning the key to the "off" position and removing them. i asked lindsey if she was okay (and couldn't hear myself screaming anymore, nor speaking) then i could hear myself and i just kept repeating "lindsey, are you okay? are you okay? Lindsey? are you okay? yes? talk to me!... " finally she said "yes." i saw a tear in her jeans, and asked if she could move her legs. after a second she said yes. i got to my phone which was luckily in my back pocket, which i could reach, and dialed 911. "no network coverage." "fuck you phone. WORK!" tried it again and it found ONE bar. got 911. "hi, i've just hit a cow in the road. we're both alive and breathing and talking." the normal questions as to location and condition and names and such. 6:49 later, the call ended.. i'm not sure if i dropped the call or if they hung up b/c the paramedics were arriving, but i remember seeing that on the screen. damn fast response time. i should write a letter. right after i stopped and was on the phone, someone drove up, and within 5 minutes, there were eight cars worth of people offering help. Lindsey was bleeding from her head. i couldn't find anything but a small napkin in the cupholder. some nice guy gave us a shirt to put pressure on it. several of the men/women had flashlights, many those ginormous mag lights. someone went to check and make sure the bull was dead. He was solid black. fucking pitch solid damn black and later came to find out that he was about 2400 lbs - medium for a bull, but i could swear he was HUGE. i had 4 headlights on and didn't see him until we were right on him. when the paramedics arrived, i told them to go get lindz checked out first b/c she was bleeding. the 2nd guy up came to check me out - squeezed my neck, pushed my stomach, and then when i said didn't think i needed to go to the hospital, he asked me to sign a waiver. i waived my paramedic/hospital check out, not before asking what the reprecussions might be. he said "you don't hurt anywhere?" "no, but i'm sure i've got enough adrenalyn pumping through my body that i won't feel anything." "are you pregnant?" "no." "could you be pregnant?" "no." "when was your last menustral period?" "tomorrow" (next week, really.) but i think i will go see the docs on monday, for safe measure. i know that some of my soreness is from all the planting i did this morning (the hamstrings). when they got me out of the car, glass fell into my pants, into my underwear, and was generally uncomfortable. i still have the airbag powder on me. and i keep finding hairs from the bull. the car is *totaled* and we are lucky to be alive. I called mom and she and clarence came to get me... the wreck happened at 10:20 PM, at 11:20 PM, I was sitting at the fire station in Marble Falls and lindsey was on her way to brack. it felt like only 10 minutes had passed. I had called 911, mom, grandma (lindsey's), lindsey's dad, lindsey's mom, and matt, then Kurt because i needed to talk to someone and i guessed that he might just be awake still.

what we have ascertained is this:
we were going fast enough that when we hit the bull, we basically knocked his feet out from under him. I think his head went into the windshield *right* between us but more on her side, and latched onto the roof because the car looked like a convertible whose top wouldn't go down into its place in the rear.

mom and c picked me up shortly after midnight. when the adrenalyn started to wear off (when i was sitting in the grass in front of the firehouse), my wrist started to hurt. it hurts *a lot* right now but that's probably b/c this isn't an ergo keyboard, and so i'm probably aggravating it, but i had to get this down... out. i will have nightmares about it. i will ask for dreamless sleep, though, before i go to bed.

the matrix is dead. it will never drive again. lindsey and i.. well, I walked out, lindsey is at the hospital and doing fine, has been lucid the whole time and they might even release her to her mom tonight (mom and dad are down there). i heard her talking when i called her mom. The only reason they flew her in is because her injury is a head injury and brack has better equipment for head injuries than marble falls, and there were 5 other accidents that night at the MF hospital.

IF they can find the owner of the bull, he/she will be responsible for the damages. the bull had been out on the same road earlier today and was apparently probably pissed off because they had to get him behind a fence (maybe not even his own), and it took them an hour, so the dps officer said he was probably angry. i think he was suicidal and we just granted him his wish. i already asked him for his forgiveness. i hate killing animals, particularly unintentionally, though the thought occurred to me that my step brother, who has a degree in butchering, would be disappointed that he didn't get to cut up the bull... and i think lindsey said something while i was on the phone with her mom about being disappointed that she didn't get to eat him, either. i figured she was okay because she was being ornery about needles in the back of the ems truck. this statement confirmed it. though, i think we should name the bull.. like.. larry.. or something.


if they can't find the owner, mom's insurance will pay for everything (theoretically) but the premium will go way up. i guess it's better than death, right? it's only money. our insurance will finish paying off the matrix, but then mom and i are down to one car.

on the drive back home, mom kept saying "ooh, look a deer!" or "was that a raccoon?" and all i could see were the bull's eyes right in front of me, and lindsey shrieking next to me. it was more of a squee... or i don't know.. i can't remember a time when i've ever screamed involuntarily, but i think i did tonight. my wrist hurts. i think i'm going to take some advil and go to bed soon. the guys at the fire station (the last guy) told me I did everything right and that i was handling it all very well (in different words). i even managed to kill the bull so he was off the road, and got my car off the road.. JUST off the road (not in a fence or anything). not that i had any control over either, but i suppose i reacted well, and i still haven't cried yet. mom keeps telling me i need to cry, but i don't always.. i will cry when i see lindsey (even if it's just inside) because i am feeling guilty, even though there was nothing i could have done about it and it would have been no different had she been driving, excepting perhaps the vehicles reaction.. apparently the matrix's low profile tires kept us from flying into the air. i guess this is what they call "survivor's guilt"... usually it applies when someone dies, but even so, i'm at home and she's in the hospital and i feel all guilty. i KNOW it wasn't my fault, but no amount of telling me that will help at the moment. i just need to see her and i think everything will be fine. the last time i talked to her mom, she ended the call with "i love you." and i nearly started bawling, but i didn't. not yet. i think i'm going to hyperventilate if i do start crying.

but... the firemen told me that I won. =)


anyway, so the standings are as follows:
laura and lindsey - 1
bull - 0

 

Comments

[opheliasavalon.livejournal.com]

I am so glad you both are ok. It could have been a lot worse.

[perfect-drug.livejournal.com]

yes wellnow that we have the car pics it could have been

OMG!!!!

[sitara.livejournal.com]

Linz! I had no idea! I am glad to see you are alive and recovering. My love and thoughts go out to you.

Re: OMG!!!!

[perfect-drug.livejournal.com]

sorry i thought about calling you but - it was mostly silly i am okay i am getting better i want to be driving by tuesday when i go back to work but we will see =)

it ws un interesting and not the best why to get a steak ;)