Interestingly enough, both survived with minor scratches/bumps. If my other niece, her eldest, had been in the front passenger seat, she would've been decapitated. As it was, the front bumper corner of the truck ended up parked inside of my sister's belly, and my sister ended up in the passenger seat (seatbelt and all), with her left leg crushed under the center dash. The elevation given by ramping up and over the curb gave the truck the lift needed to land thusly. This was back in April, and she was in both a regular and later an induced coma while the doctors did surgery after surgery to repair her insides, her leg, and her mind.
My mother had to keep the family of her kids' father away and occupied because they kept interfering with the medical decisions even though none had a lick of medical experience. And if her controlling, abusive (unattractive) boyfriend had his way they would've pulled the life support from her early during the surgery. The entire time she was in a coma he had been spending his time with some ugly woman, and had even moved them out of their home since she was in the hospital and didn't need a place to stay. This regardless of whether he had three living kids to maintain and provide for. My sister refuses to believe he is capable of doing any wrong. And any conversation about something negative he does turns really odd as it seems a selective thinking switch turns her off and her head angles to one side. Then when the negative data stops, due to the strangeness of her action, the switch flips her back on and she resumes talking like nothing had been said. Damn do I hate abusive men!
My contracting company actually >hid< my Military Emergency Red Cross/Crescent Message from me! They told the International Red Cross that I didn't work there, so they went back to the corporate offices in Kentucky, who told them I was in Afghanistan on one of their PSD contracts. They tried there but no one had heard of me there in some time. So they left the message with one of Dy nC or p Int ern atio nal's top HR woman...and it never got to me. My mother was able to contact me later to tell me the details of the message, and I notified my chain of command resulting in no action taken. Instead, they forced all of our staff to take their vacations according to some f-d up matrix the previous boss man had concocted out of his fat rear. So I ended up scheduled for a June time frame, and they pretty much denied me Emergency Leave even after clearing up the HR woman's mess. Technically my mother can sue the shit out of them, and her uncle happens to be the Army Major General in charge of the Reserves and Guard.
When I went directly to the #2 boss man and spoke with him face-to-face he kept quoting obscure policies that weren't in effect, local Arabic laws pertaining to contract employees, and some BS corporate requirements from the new overseas offices they are using as a tax shelter from paying American taxes (that will change once Obama cuts that loophole out of the system this year). When he pulled me into another office with the soon-to-be-leaving head local HR chick, she was confused as to what he was asking her to explain to me. I told her that I wanted to take my forced vacation days (11 total), and add 10 days of unpaid emergency vacation. She shook her head at the #2 man and asked what the problem was, with him turning to me with shocked eyes and blurting that he thought I had meant I was demanding the company give me extra PAID leave. So in short I got approved (being there two years and their screwing up badly helped). The entire time my sister was in the hospital, slowing being brought out of her coma and preparing her for her immediate future as a cripple in need of therapy.
