So I had an adventure last night. I see my pdoc in the city, about 2.5 hours from here. I left her office about 6:45 and got to the place traffic gets more sparse (thank God). All of a sudden there was a deer in my lane, directly in front of me. I couldn't swerve (I think there was a car beside me in the left lane?) and thought clearly "I'm going to hit that deer". Which I did.

I'm fine. My airbags didn't go off so I didn't even have a bruise. My car is damaged but it could have been worse. I only hit with the right side of the fender and the very front part of the panel behind the fender is dented slightly. My headlight was shattered although somehow the light still works. The blinker is destroyed on one side. It could have been so much worse.

I feel so bad because I don't know if I killed it, injured it or if it somehow escaped ok. I thought it was laying on the edge of the road behind me but the police didn't seem to have seen it there so I don't know. I hope it's not wandering around hurt. I've never hit an animal before. I hope that never happens again.

So glad I live next to my mom because I'm going to have to borrow her car sometimes until this is repaired. I get nervous doing that because what if I hit another deer with her car? I know this is irrational; I've been driving for over 30 years and hit one deer; I'm unlikley to hit a 2nd this week. But I can't help it.

Poor, stupid deer.....