Matisyahu's Blog

Well, where do I stat. On 12 December I caught a bus to pick up my scooter from the local repairs at 8:00am where the back tyre and regular maintenance was done (oil change plus other usual 6 monthly checkups). I jumped on my scooter and headed towards Petone on Cuba Street towards Wellington and out of nowhere a person turned into Cuba Street, I put my breaks, my scooter flipped forward resulted in my landing on the road and my scooter going in another direction – the person who caused the accident drove off (I was lucky in that there were people who saw the whole incident and from what it sounded like when I was lying on the ground they got the licence plate of the car).

I was laying there on the road, people came to provide help and an ambulance was organised – I was quickly taken to the hospital where there was a CT scan along with X Ray to check for any fractures since my arms were sore (they took the brunt of the impact when I landed on the road). Since then I have been unable to close my hands, move my fingers and raise my arms so with that limit movement mum has helped me immensely with getting things done as I recover. At the moment however my arms are still very store meaning I have a limited range of movement, my fingers movement is slightly better than 4 days ago meaning I can slowly type this blog post out. My back still hurts along with my front, basically it is a matter of allowing time heal, something that cannot be magically accelerated.

As for my road to recovery, I’m going to get back in contact with my insurance company tomorrow to finish the claim I started today but the telephone connection suddenly dropped. The next thing to do is talk to ACC regarding the claim – since I’m unfamiliar with the whole process I’ll need to ask them how does it work regarding the time off from work I’ve taken so far and does it fall under them matching the pay or do I put it through my employer as sick leave or some other leave they payout. I’ll also need to get in contact with the police regarding getting the case file number for the incident so I can provide it to my insurance. Then finally I’ll need to contact my boss to give them a heads up on what is happening – I got the officer to contact my boss when the incident happened so I assume the wrote the rest of the week off given the circumstances of what took place but it is best to get in contact to advise them that I’ll need this week to recover as well. As a side note, I still get flash backs of the incident when trying to sleep – I’m hoping that over time they’ll become less frequent because the experience is very unsettling.