Pain and Suffering

After 3 years I finally got something from my accident. For those that don't know on Jan 4th, 2006 I was driving home from work. It was a great day, it was my last day of work for a week, my sister was landing in just a few hrs, my brother would be here in a two days, and N's first birthday party was just a few days away. I was just 4 house from our house when a car pulled out of a side street and basically hit me head on. I saw him coming, so I was able to break. Thankfully everyone walked away it could have been a lot worse, but I was out of a car at a time I really needed one. Later that night I had painful neck pains, but being N's first birthday I refused to go to the hospital till after the party. By the day of the party my neck was better and we had a great day, but a week later my pains came back so I went to a dr. After months of appointments, therapy, MRI's, and X-Rays, we found out I have 2 bulge disks in my neck, 1 in my lower back, and TMJ. Unfortunately the disks they can't do anything about except chiropractor to keep the pressure off them and in line, the TMJ as you know I had surgery for in Jan. It is 100% better, but I am learning that when my neck hurts the TMJ does come back a little on one side. Something I have to live with. Anyways, because of all this we got a lawyer to help us pay all the medical bills. We finally got it all finished, all the bills where paid and we got a little bit for pain and suffering. Why am I telling you all this, well one cuz I can finally tell my story out loud and two, even though we put most of the money aside to pay for chiropractor appointments I got myself a pain and suffering gift. I had a lot of MRI's (which I DO NOT LIKE) and surgery(which was very hard for me) I SOO deserved a little something!

You've all seen the commercials for the Open Heart necklaces and I've thought those are so pretty and I love the story behind it. So today we went out and got one, which by the way I didn't realize how many styles they had it the "pattern" there is alot!

Anyways, here is my pain and suffering gift I love it!

I ordered the kids an easel the other day from walmart and had it site to store-it came in today! I'm so excited, they both love coloring and I wanted to get them paints so this is perfect for them. I also wanted something that was educational, fun, and they both could do for over the summer, and this covers it all. As you can see they already love it!