Unfortunate event (part 1)

First of I want to say that this is going to be a long one so I would have to divide it in parts. Secondly, I want to thank you if you will be reading the whole story.

A few days ago I have been feeling mixed emotions. I wanted to share it with all of you but I realized that I had to attend to other things first or the most important things than telling the story with all of you. Most of you know that I have been on this platform for a year now or 379 days to be exact. I have been sharing with you almost all of the events that had happened to me and my family. I also share some nonsense and boring stuffs that happened to me on an ordinary day. This platform has been my outlet to almost everything about my life, my opinions, my thoughts and my rants.

Last year around the same month my dad had developed shingles. It was a very painful viral infection that targets the nerves. Not only was it painful for my dad but it was also painful for me. I could not bear to look at him because of all those rashes. I even do not want to hear him lightly screaming or complaining about the pain. But what should a daughter do? If only I can take away the pain, I would but I couldn't. I was his nurse, I was his cook and I was even his alarm clock. He needed to drink his medicines 5 times a day along with his maintenance medicines. So I get to witness everything that he has been through with regards to his shingles.

Thankfully, after 2 weeks, the rashes were gone but the pain was still there but not that painful unlike during the first offset of rashes. From time to time he would complain that it still hurts but tolerable. We have been adviced by the doctor that it takes a long time to fully heal. He even asked a lot of doctors about it only to hear the same conclusion.

And this year, my dad had experienced another pain again. When I was at my brother's place, my dad went out almost everyday to attend meetings and other gatherings. I was not around to scold him and I was not around to let him watch the NBA. Other than the news, it was the NBA that have kept him sane during this pandemic. That's why when I told him that I will be staying at my brother's, I felt the sadness in his voice. He asked me what will happen to him if I will be away and how will he be able to watch the NBA. Because he had nothing else to do at home, he went out almost everyday.

Then a very unexpected unfortunate event happened. He called me one afternoon telling me that he got in a car accident and that he just called to say that he was ok although his lips was bleeding and that he had a lot of blood. He also said that the police are already with him and investigating the scene and he was asking me if the car had insurance. How would I know right? I had no business with the car registration as he was the one who registers the car each year.

I was so worried but my mom and I cannot go there as the day before that, my dad's other car, his sedan car had broken down. He texted us about it that his car broke down when he was on the way to a Christmas party. He asked help from his acquaintances from the said event. They were able to made a remedy for the car's problem. He was able to droveback home after the event being escorted by 2 cars, one in the front and one at the back. It was just to make sure that he would come home safe.

Since he cannot use his sedan the following day, he used his SUV. Thankfully, it was the SUV that he used because the impact was so strong that his right side was a little wreck. Additionally we are still thankful that it was an old SUV because if it could have been a newer model of SUVs, it would have been a total wreck. Car mechanics have told him that yes he can be saved by the airbag from the newer models but the damage of of the car and damage to the driver will be more than what happened to him and his SUV.

Our cars do not have airbags so my dad had a crack on one of his ribs as said in the hospital and is manageable according to them. Though my dad's lips just like what he had said when he called was bleeding nonstop was because he had a long rectangle wound on the inner corner of his mouth. I feel that due to impact when his face bumped the steering wheel, his tooth had scraped the corner of his mouth. That is only on how I see it. The hospital did not stitch it as they have said that it did not need any stitching and will heal on its own.

My dad was alone when that happened. We could not go to him where the accident happened nor when he was brought to the police station neither in the hospital when he needed to have himself checked all because of COVID. We do not have a car to go there and we also did not want to ride a public vehicle due to fear of the virus.

Sorry but I have to cut it from here. I tols you it was going to be long.

P.S. lead image is a photo of my dad's SUV taken from a car repair shop.