My husband has a deposition on Tuesday (and no that is not some code word for something he must perform at the RE office). In the summer of 2006 Karlis had a little bad luck with car accidents. He wrecked both of our cars within two weeks of each other. At the time, I kept kidding him that he was trying to officially live up to his name as “Car-less”. One was not his fault but one was. I will set the scene of the one that was his fault:
Lowes’ Parking Lot
Night time so it was dark out
Drizzling rain
Light Pole bulb blown out making it even further harder to see (come on Lowe’s you specialize in this stuff)
Stop was written on pavement (somewhat halfway and faded)
So he was doing around 5mph leaving Lowe’s with some just purchased blue paint he was using to paint a hockey dressing room when he skidded through the painted stop sign he saw at the last second (which in turn splattered the blue paint which made it look like a smurf threw up in our car). From the other way came a hooptie clunker with two sizeable people coming through and Karlis hit them in the rear tire. Karlis got out to check on them and they said they were fine but then the woman started making phone calls. Then guess what happened! You got it; she was all of a sudden in pain and needed an ambulance. IT WAS A PARKING LOT FENDER BENDER FOR GOODNESS SAKE!! My husband did hit them; yes I will admit that but an ambulance?!??!?! We all know where this one is going. They are suing us for $53,400. Yep, that’s right. She has $11,500 bills for a stiff neck (we all have these almost daily but she managed to have ongoing therapy for it), $7,500 for a totaled car (absolute joke), compensation for 4 days of missed work (makes me want to vomit) and the rest is good ol’ pain and suffering. But during all this pain and suffering she managed to get married to the redneck driving the car (yes I am bitter, extremely bitter). WE will be paying for her hillbilly wedding while we are trying to pay for our babies. It just doesn’t seem right. Our insurance covers us for this amount and hopefully they will settle out of court so we don’t have to go to trial (I am being sued in addition to Karlis since the car was in my name also). A trial is set for September 22nd, three days before our egg retrieval. Our insurance company offered her $16,000 and she wouldn’t touch it. We asked our attorney if he could delay this process since we are in the last few weeks of in-vitro and he said this was the last possible time we could do it. Our lawyers have been postponing it for a while thinking they would eventually settle. I desperately want to countersue for OUR pain and suffering and harassment. I have now also missed 4 days of work to be served three times at our house (they can’t seem to get it right) and visit our lawyer. This could not have come back up at a more inappropriate time. It just seems like too much at once. Plus it is completely insane that these money hungry losers can sue for such an ACCIDENT.
Anyway back to a much lighter topic…in-fertility! (hopefully you sense my extreme sarcasm)
I AM HEADACHE FRRREEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!! What a sweet relief!
Third shot is tonight which makes me a little nervous for two reasons:
1. Karlis will be doing his first injection.
2. My right hip is still not speaking to me from the last injection it had so I can’t imagine its response when we abuse it again.
Karlis keeps telling me he has a vision of giving his first injection. It involves me running around the house screaming with a needle stuck half-way out of my rear. We shall see…..
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