.: Whip Smart :.

So you know how I need to experience things to ACTUALLY learn and understand it?



Now I understand whiplash.

I rear-ended a Caravan right at the 290/Congress merge. It was stop and go and I went when I shoulda stopped. He got scratches and dents on the back panel thing and his bumper. My air bags deployed. I've got bruises and scratches from that and my glasses. The damage to the car includes the grill shattering with transmission fluid bleeding out from underneath.

Now the kinda of exciting part of all this is now I have first hand knowledge of how whiplash progresses. I didn't feel a damn thing through out the police and the towing. Luckily my tow truck driver actually dropped me off at home (in his super decked out Nissan Something. It was science fiction. Who gets heated steering wheels? I woulda been a wreck on the CTA.

When I stood around at home getting all the insurance I was fine too. But when I stopped, my arms started to shake. Finally all that adrenaline that just presented itself. That's when I'd realized that my lower back was a bit achy. I tilted my head to one side all my cervical vertebrae clicked. My neck NEVER cracks.
Then stiffness in my anterior neck muscles and posterior shoulder was pulling up towards my ears. This was over a matter of hours but I noted it my head. These are my SOAP notes for myself:

S -MVA 12/7/05- rearended slow speed, FWD. PT complains of "tns n up. sh." and "dull P n anterior neck ms" O - ts n post neck isc & swollen?, ant neck "sinewy", erectors isc. A - Did not treat, Rx MD? P - demo cold/hot therapy for neck and neutral spine. do not treat unless recommended by MD or Mom.

Luckily, Mom did not completely freak and I took care of all the paperwork and reports. I was crazy determined to stay in the city and take care of it. I meet her tomorrow morning for something anyways.

My brain must be a bit addled as I've retyped that last sentence way too many times.

More about going to dance class tonight too. but Later I gotsta get up early.