Paying the Price…
My life has been side-lined once again, by and through
the actions of another after a woman who was either texting
or sleeping, was not paying attention to the road when she
came down the street where I was doing in-home care, at a
fast speed, smashing first into my parked car before moving
on to crash into the truck parked right in front of my car.
Jolted hard and fierce in the middle of the night through
the time change of Daylight-Saving artificial time switch
when an ear-splitting high pitch screech followed by 2
loud crashes directly in front of the home I was doing
in-home care in occurred.
All vehicles were totaled. The woman was rewarded
with a brand-new vehicle, while I remain on foot.
After her totaling 3 vehicles, how is she allowed
to even be driving? It cost her nothing, and cost
me so much, took away my lifeline, my mobility,
and left me unable to do much of anything.
Being so violently torn from sleep, Paul and I both went
out to see what happened. Finding a hysterical Asian
woman standing on the sidewalk after first hitting my
parked car then the truck that was parked in front of mine,
with her car smashed in between, all vehicles totaled from
her distracted state she had been driving in, coming down
the residential street at a very fast clip, either texting or
otherwise distracted with something else, immediately
took away my lifeline and mobility, not to mention
my source of income, leaving me on foot.
But I am so deeply grateful that I have a roof over
my head, however temporary it may be, and not
back on the streets with no protection at all,
like had been the case for the first several years
on the streets, where I had no vehicle, no
protection, no safety.
Her actions, though, have caused irreparable harm
in so many ways. Her actions gutted my life. Becoming
a forced by-stander in my own life, once again, through
the actions of another, where I am forced to pay the
heavy price from what someone else has done.
I cannot volunteer my time and skills, cannot donate
what I no longer need or use, cannot take any assignments,
go to any appointments, pick up groceries, check my
mail or do a thousand other things…on foot. That was
all taken from me, all from another person’s actions.
Not only was my mobility taken from me, again, leaving
me on foot, it literally put my life on hold, like a permanent
suspension. Unable to take care of even the most basic
essentials. Cannot take care of much on foot.
As the challenges having no vehicle increases,
essentials become more and more of a luxury
while life itself becomes out of reach.
Paying the Price...
