June 19, 2024
We rolled up to the stop light on the square in Zebulon heading to Piedmont Atlanta this morning. There were cars in front, behind and to the left of us. We were in the right lane and the light changed. Cars started to roll forward and the lady to the left of us decided to change lanes and crashed into the side of our car leaving damage down the driver’s side front and back door. We pulled into the parking lot at the corner and David called 911. We got out and waited for police. Zebulon PD arrived and took down some information while we waited for GSP. The lady was quite rude the entire time and even demanded that the officers hurry up because she had a doctor’s appointment. You can imagine how that went over with the troopers. She acted angry and tried to blame me saying I came out of nowhere. Long story short, she was deemed to be at-fault (without question) and the troopers explained how to obtain the crash reports and whatnot. Both GSP troopers and the Zebulon PD officer were very courteous. Shaken, we drove on to Atlanta. Thankfully, our car is driveable. It just looks like we tried our hand at a demolition derby. It happens so fast, and I only saw her a split second before she darted over and made contact. It makes me so sad to think about it because I take pride in my car and it didn’t have a scratch on it before this. In the end, it is just a car, and we weren’t hurt badly. Thankfully, we did not involve anyone else in the accident when she hit us. It always could be worse especially with David just having a liver procedure a few days prior. It is just another thing to have to deal with that we did not need. Why is life like this?
After the eventful morning, we made it to see our favorite liver surgeon, 30 minutes late. David had called after the accident to let them know we would be delayed. His office called a couple of weeks ago and said Dr. N wanted to see David in the office. We knew he was following his progress but wasn’t really sure why he wanted to talk to David since more surgery was not on the table now. Dr. N was not aware though that David had already had the ablation procedure and had wanted to discuss options going forward. He said since this was the case and because we have new lung involvement, he wanted to present David’s case to his tumor board once again. He wants to have a CT scan on David’s lungs at the same time they scan his liver to check the ablation results in July and then present the case the following Friday. He plans to video chat with David on July 10 following the scan and discuss the best options. We are extremely grateful Dr. N wants to help. We will take any counsel we can get.