After posting last on Monday I realized I could not stand to stay in St. Louis another day and decided to leave at once. I thought i would drive part way, get a room and wind up in texas on tuesday.
I thought i would get a room in Tulsa, Oklahoma but every resonably priced place to stay scared me. I could imagine waking up in the morning to find my car on cement blocks with the wheels and doors missing along with the clothes i had in the car and thought i would drive to the exit and find someplace nice to stay. Never happened. NOT a lot happening in Oklahoma and by then i was but 3 hours from my destination so i just kept driving and wound up in Texas at eleven thirty on Monday night.
After four very strong cocktails and a couple of dilauidids i was able to crash out and sleep until late tuesday morning.
Once awake, it was on the go to have lunch and hit up world market with a friend, return to home base, and then head out to meet another friend for dinner and drinks - which turned out to be a fiasco.
Friend wanted to just just pick up some stuff, ok. n/p. He was getting jerked around by his guy (and not in a good way) and 'all of a sudden' THREE AND A HALF HOURS LATER he had his stuff.
I was livid. My blood was boiling. First night in town went like that. Great. 80 and snowy in Texas. Whatever.
Wednesday morning wake up and head off to hospital to get checked out. Went to local branch of Baylor. There for 5 hours, then get transferred to the main Dallas location to see specialists.
Long story short, i was 14 hours in hospital.
I learned that my injuries are much worse than i was told in St. Louis and now the questions are being raised of why i was not rushed into surgery immediately in St. Louis.
The surgery will be more complicated than thought.
I was shocked to learn that the facial injuries (as bad as i thought they were) were actually worse.
I am very nervous about all of this now, but am on the fast track to getting the surgery done.
I was also surpsied to learn that I have racked up over U.S. $15,000 in hospital fees since the accident and that is not including the surgery.
So it seems that everything is bigger in Texas.
I thought i would get a room in Tulsa, Oklahoma but every resonably priced place to stay scared me. I could imagine waking up in the morning to find my car on cement blocks with the wheels and doors missing along with the clothes i had in the car and thought i would drive to the exit and find someplace nice to stay. Never happened. NOT a lot happening in Oklahoma and by then i was but 3 hours from my destination so i just kept driving and wound up in Texas at eleven thirty on Monday night.
After four very strong cocktails and a couple of dilauidids i was able to crash out and sleep until late tuesday morning.
Once awake, it was on the go to have lunch and hit up world market with a friend, return to home base, and then head out to meet another friend for dinner and drinks - which turned out to be a fiasco.
Friend wanted to just just pick up some stuff, ok. n/p. He was getting jerked around by his guy (and not in a good way) and 'all of a sudden' THREE AND A HALF HOURS LATER he had his stuff.
I was livid. My blood was boiling. First night in town went like that. Great. 80 and snowy in Texas. Whatever.
Wednesday morning wake up and head off to hospital to get checked out. Went to local branch of Baylor. There for 5 hours, then get transferred to the main Dallas location to see specialists.
Long story short, i was 14 hours in hospital.
I learned that my injuries are much worse than i was told in St. Louis and now the questions are being raised of why i was not rushed into surgery immediately in St. Louis.
The surgery will be more complicated than thought.
I was shocked to learn that the facial injuries (as bad as i thought they were) were actually worse.
I am very nervous about all of this now, but am on the fast track to getting the surgery done.
I was also surpsied to learn that I have racked up over U.S. $15,000 in hospital fees since the accident and that is not including the surgery.
So it seems that everything is bigger in Texas.
