He's FINE!

Most of you have heard the story by now, but we haven't blogged in a while, and it was the most exciting thing to happen in our dull lives recently. I hope Jeremy doesn't mind if we tell the story, but here's how it happened from our perspective.

On Saturday, I received a text from Jordan saying Jeremy was in a car crash and taken to the hospital. I called my parents, who had heard nothing about it. My mom then called Kalli and she said that he was okay, but he hurt his back, and was taken by ambulance to the hospital to take x-rays. Although Kalli said that he was fine, my mom still heard the words "car crash," "hospital," "ambulance," and "x-rays." So my mom called me, and we all decided to go see him at the hospital.

Jenn and I arrived before my parents did. When we got there, we saw Kalli and Jeremy's friend, Tony, and his daughter in the waiting room. Kalli seemed very surprised and confused that we were all there. Just a few minutes later, Jeremy came walking out, looking a little stiff, but in one piece. That's when we got the whole story...

Turns out, Jeremy was in the front of a three-car crash. He was stopped and someone rear-ended the car behind him, which was pushed forward and hit Jeremy's car. He got out, walked around, and was talking with the police when they got there. They asked if he was okay. Jeremy said he was fine, but that his back hurt a little bit. So they decided to take him to the hospital as a precaution. They had him get back in his car (so they could remove him "properly"), put him in a brace and on a stretcher, and into the back of the ambulance. He said it was pretty embarrassing.

This was the chain of communication (as far as we know)... When it happened, obviously, Jeremy first called Kalli. Kalli then told Trevor, who was at work. Trevor works with Tony's daughter, so when Tony came to pick her up from work, he heard that Jeremy was in the hospital. At some point, Trevor also told Jordan, who texted us. We called my parents, who then called Kalli. So that's why Kalli was so confused at all of the attention. She had only told Trevor, but the next thing she knew, my mom called her about it, and all of us showed up at the hospital. When he got out, Jeremy called his kids and told them to stop scaring everybody, and that he was FINE!

He said it was probably best that he went to the hospital, as embarrassing as it all was. The doctor told him the muscles in his back were tightened, and it was going to get worse before it got better, and gave him some medication. On Sunday, he was in quite a bit of pain, but still insists that he's alright.

So it was a lot of hoopla over nothing major. But at least now Jeremy knows how much we care about him.