By the end of the visit to the ER, we knew that the doctor didn't see anything in the MRI, and we went home with a prescription for Flexeril, an instruction for my wife to take acetaminophen PRN, and an expectation that she would take the day off with a bigger headache than the one she has now.
At about 2:40 this afternoon, she was returning to her job from a lunch break on which she was food shopping, when she was rear-ended by a young driver who tried to pull around and leave the scene of the accident; he was prevented by a number of bystanders, many of whom happen to be my wife's coworkers, until the police arrived. The car can be driven, but will need work; there may be frame damage. The driver hit her with enough force that, less than an hour after the accident, she decided to go to the Emergency Room due to a feeling of increasing pressure in her head. She called me; we came home first, and then went to the ER at RWJ University Hospital, which is where her primary doctor has privileges, in case she needed to be admitted.
We expect that she will take the day off tomorrow. She will contact a body shop where she is known a bit too well (she has had poor luck with being in not-at-fault accidents) to see what will need to be done to the car.
I will be happy not to meet the other driver.
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