Ouch

So it was a beautiful, calm but steamy prairie morning. Still hot and muggy from the day before. It was an early morning, and I was on the road early, but its was indeed a “moody manitoba morning.” But that would quickly change.

As an oblivious driver, texting, snoozing, who knows, blew through a red light at the Perimeter Highway and t-boned the car I was in as it proceeded through the intersection on a very green light.

I didn’t hear him hit the brakes. But he may have. All I heard was the sickening crash of metal on metal. I felt my body bend like a whip, and just like a whip, snap back to where it started. Then everything was still. And quiet. I couldn’t hear my dog. i couldn’t turn to see him, but i could see his kennel was all flipped and turned around. I tried to open the car door to get out. No go. I couldn’t see the other car. It must have been moved out of the way or bounced somewhere out of my immediate field of view. When I did get out, there were people rushing around and someone came over to help.

I could hear the sirens in the distance, approaching.  The sun was barely peeking above the horizon, like the sound of the impact had awoken it and it rose up to see what the commotion was about…

Anyway, the upshot is that we are ok. Bruised to be sure, and I maybe have something with cracked or broken ribs, which I am getting checked out.  Baron, my dog seemed blissfully unaware that there was anything amiss – thank god for sturdy dog crates! (If anyone still travels with their dogs free-ranging it in the car, STOP right  now, and put your baby in an approved travel crate).  Anyway,  I’m not sure how someone can miss a red light at that intersection. There are warning lights at least all over the place, it’s a huge intersection and it’s not like you can’t notice it coming up. It’s new – and well designed.

So..now what is the universe trying to tell me? A week before the most adventurous trip I have ever made is there a message I need to hear?