Here's what we know...

so far... as of 4:30 today Matthew's has the initial repair costs at $15,500. That does not include an engine work and there is frame damage and also could be other things majorly wrong underneath. This also doesn't include figuring out why the airbags didn't deploy. The side curtain bags deployed but the front and side bags didn't,which should have before the curtains did. In fact, the curtains probably shouldn't have deployed at all since it wasn't a side impact.

They said if the car was a 2005 or 6, they would stop with this value and total it. But since it is a 2007 with only 10000 miles they have to dig deeper to justify totalling it. So we are still in a holding pattern. They aren't sure of all the damage but it's not good. They've said Rob isn't just lucky to not be hurt worse, but lucky to be alive since the airbags didn't deploy.

Well, Rob is really hurting today. We almost went to the ER tonight but decided it's pointless. They don't do anything for whiplash...best case scenario, if not just told to go home and rest, after paying them $75 deductible they would give him Tylenol 3 or something that we would just have to pay another $50 deductible for - all of which we don't have the money for. So he took some more tylenol at home and went back to bed.

I have also been told by my niece that once car seats have been in car accidents, whether a child is in them or not, they have to be replaced. You can't use them anymore, especially if they were thrown around the car...anybody know about this????? I need to find out so I can tell the insurance agency and try to get them to spend $240 to replace the one I had in the car.