My first recollection is that I needed to do something to stop the car and I had no idea what to do, so I turned the ignition off. Then I realised the car had come to a halt too close to the car next to me which meant I couldn't get out and there was no-one around so I didn't know if anyone realised what had happened. Doh! I sounded the horn unaware that inside the building people were dashing to help me.
I was fine. I was not injured but I was confused. How could my car go from driving into a parking space to being embedded in a brick wall?
Finally, I was helped out of the car and gave my keys to a colleague so they could move my car and inspect the damage to both the car and the building.
Without me knowing, one of my colleagues had phoned for an ambulance while another had been to fetch Neil and by the time Neil arrived I was being checked over by a couple of paramedics.
They took me to hospital to be checked over where they took all the various checks and asked lots of questions, my answers to which were all to the negative and eventually they decided I was a bit of a mystery woman as they couldn't find any reason for the accident. I was fine apart from my blood pressure being high, not unexpected considering what I had just experienced, and so I was discharged and sent home.
I naturally have good blood pressure and a low natural heart rate. I have a monitor at home and was able to keep an eye on it in the days after the accident. A week later and both were still too high and so I decided to visit my doctor, just to make sure it wasn't a problem.
That was the start of 3 months, which resulted in me needing a pacemaker implant. This blog will follow that journey and continue with life after the implant.
