Remind me not to enter a beauty pageant any time soon...

I was rear-ended yesterday. This makes the fourth time I've been hit in less than four years in Memphis, and the second time someone's rear-ended me because they didn't brake sufficiently in the rain. I'm kind of getting tired of it! :/

My head hit the driver-side window when he hit me, and my glasses cut into my skin right on the brow bone, giving me a nice little gash (2 cm long according to the triage nurse at the ER). Lucky for you, dear reader, I happened to have my digital camera with me, so I documented the progression of my wound throughout the day.
I got a Owie!



After a couple of hours of driving around town trying to find someone who would stitch it up!

In the ER, just before getting sewn up

...5 stitches later

24 hours after.

This has definitely not been my most beautiful year, what with losing a toe-nail late last summer, and a fingernail at the beginning of this year (both have since grown back), and shaving my hair off, and now I've got a big black eye and 5 stitches just under my eyebrow! I think if I'm ever a pregnant woman feeling ugly and un-feminine, all I'll have to do is remember this & surely I'll feel better! :)


Ironically, neither of our cars had any damage. that's what ya get for driving an old, sturdy almost-20 year-old car, I guess!