I had made it to 30 weeks of my pregnancy with little changing in the process. I had managed to get my drivers license and was taking myself to my doctors appointments and playing taxi to my little brother.
I got up early the morning of October 20th for a doctors appointment, Kym said she wanted to go with me because she wanted to go to a few places in Memphis so I waited around for her. I wanted to get on the highway early because the truckers who traveled that highway drove like ass holes, I had learned the earlier you got on the smother the drive was. Kym ended up making me leave late and she didn't even end up going. I had just got on the main stretch of the highway when I was basically surrounded by big rigs.....and I'm in my little Geo Metro (it was white), about 20 min into it the trucker behind me wanted to pass me but I had no where to pull over to let him so he decided he would take matters into his own hands and ran me off the road, I was going 55mph and was ran straight into a ditch that separated the highways. I hit a wall of dirt which jolted my seat forward and there I was with the emergency cell phone in the glove compartment and my very large pregnant belly stuck UNDER the steering wheel. Thankfully someone pulled over and called 911, the fire department had to use the jaws of life to cut me out. I had a gash on my left knee, I had two fingers broken on my left hand and one on my right hand, a gash on my forehead and a broken nose.....there was no air bag. I was rushed to the emergency room in the back of an ambulance, I don't remember a whole lot of the accident because it all happened so fast and the only thing I was thinking of was my daughter (ultrasound had confirmed it when I was 22 weeks along) I was in and out and remember waking up in a hospital room hooked up to all sorts of monitors and an iv, my entire body was sore and I could see bruises all over my legs and arms. I frantically pulled back the covers to see my still large belly, I shook it praying to make my baby girl move and I felt nothing, I began to cry and looked for the nurse call button and that's when I saw it, the monitor that was hooked up to my belly...then realized there were straps around me and two paddle looking things ON my belly, when I looked closer I could see a heart beat on the monitor screen and began to calm down a little. I found the nurse call button and called a nurse in, she didn't get through the door before I said "is my baby alive"? she gave me a blank look and said yes but the doctor wants to talk to you, Ill call him, and she left................
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