Thank you so much to everyone who has emailed or called or commented with their good wishes for me. It’s just one of those times where I am overwhelmed by how many people love me and who are glad that I am OK. And I am OK. Still immensely freaked out - I don’t think I will ever get the visual of being dragged backwards down the freeway out of my head - and my neck and shoulders are pretty sore, but I am alive and well.
To answer some questions, the other driver was fine. His truck was barely even damaged. It was a big hauling truck, about the size of a garbage truck. You can actually see the truck in the pictures in my last post - it’s the truck in front of the CHP cruiser. We were just going along, and he just changed lanes straight into me. The force from him hitting me spun me around backwards to the other side of his truck where I was dragged backwards for fifty feet or so before coming loose. Magically, all the other cars behind us uniformly stopped and never came close to hitting me.
The driver of the truck did stop, and the CHP came, and there were witnesses who all told the CHP that it was totally not my fault. We got my car to a body shop and we are awaiting word from the insurance company whether or not they are going to fix it or just total it out. Everybody cross your fingers that they total it out, because if nothing else, I would like a new car out of this. I don’t know how I would feel about getting back into my old car, although it certainly served me well. Thank you, Honda, for building a strong car and keeping me alive. I have just become a customer for life.
Hawaii pictures are coming, I promise. That’s what I was *planning* to do Thursday afternoon when I got home from acupuncture, and we all know how that turned out. So it will be a few more days.
Again, thank you all for good wishes. I feel the love 
