Monday, April 16, 2012
Scott's accident
Jan 11, 2012 Scott was involved in a car accident. Scott had hunter safety my nephew was in his class and my cousin took him home that night if I wasn't back in time. I had to go to Sears and get a mattress protector for Jake's bed since everything is rental I didn't want the mattress to get ruined. Hunter safety was being held at the high school which isn't too far from my house. I asked my cousin if he would take Scott home if I was not back in time before they got out. He said no problem he had to go to my house anyways to get boxes for my sister for her move to Payson. Hunter safety got out early :( My cousin was driving an older pickup truck Scott was in the middle and my nephew was by the door. The seat belts didn't work so no one was wearing one. My cousin was confused when they were leaving hunter safety and almost hit a couple people and vehicles in the parking lot. They made a left turn and was heading toward the light to make another left. Scott was giving him directions but he just seemed kinda out of it. Scott repeatedly told him he needed to turn left and he was going to fast by the time it registered that he needed to make a left turn it was too late and he clipped the rear end of the vehicle in front of him and that caused him to hit the car in front of them. Scott and my nephew got out of the vehicle as a County Sheriff was pulling up. Scott called me to tell me that he was in an accident and I hurried there and beat the ambulance. Scott never talked to any cops or fireman, luckily most of the officers and firemen knew who Scott was. I called my cousins son to tell him about the accident they were closer then I was and went to the accident, while I was calling them Scott called his dad. Paul ran all the way to the accident which was a couple blocks away and before Paul could get to the accident my cousins wife was taking Scott home before he could get checked out. I arrived at the accident scene with my friend Karen and her daughter Ashley (they were with me) looking for Scott my sister started yelling at me saying its all my fault. Karen told her to shut up! I called my neighbor Jamie who was just getting off of work from the Dollar Store she went to my house and picked up Scott to get him checked out by the ambulance. The ambulance wanted to transport him but I said no because I didn't want Scott to go to Mountain View Hospital. I was told that I had to take him to the hospital immediately, so I did. We went to Orem Community Scott was diagnosed with: whiplash, concussion, deep tissue bruising across his chest, memory loss, hips, ribs, neck were displaced. Scott has missed a month in a half of school he went from a straight A student to F's Scott goes to therapy and the doctor's every week. His memory his still not where it should be. Scott still has a hard time on helping Jake with 1st grade work. Scott still gets really bad headaches and his neck hurts. Which is affecting his grades and everything else (being meaner to his brothers) because he don't feel good. He gets depressed because he feels stupid now. He still don't think he is smart enough to be in UCAS. Most of his teachers have been working with him, but this still sucks because no matter how much he brings up his grades he will never have a GPA 3.97 that can affect him getting into whatever college he decides to go to. Scott has missed hanging out with friends going to Scout activities and even going to church. The doctor's are just saying we have to wait 6 months to see if he is going to keep improving or if this is going to be as good as he will be. It hurts me and Paul so much to see Scott in so much pain. Then trying to figure out the insurance was a joke. I went to my cousins house to see how he was doing I also needed his insurance information his wife freaked out and started to come after me, the worst part was that my 2 sisters were there and they just left the room instead of standing up for me. I had to call our insurance company to get the insurance information. Finally tried to get the police report and it took 2 months because they did not have Scott or my nephew listed on the police report. When we finally got it they just added their names to it instead of amending it. By law they should have amend the report you can not change the original police report. I went and got witness statements from people who were there and who were at Hunter Safety the police department wants my copy because they never got any statements from anyone. We hired a lawyer to deal with it and we still get calls from the other insurance company no matter how many times we tell them to talk to the lawyer. My cousins have disowned me and so has some of my family by saying its all my fault for the accident. With everything going on with the house the accident I have realized who my true friends and family are. I just hope that Scott gets better, I still worry so much about him. I know that this is really long but it really is a shorter version of everything that happened.
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What a mess.
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