Before I get too far in my victim impact… letter? Statement? I’ve asked the MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) advocate that has been working with me, especially as it relates to following of the case as the man who hit and killed him makes his way through the judicial system, if I can or will be able to read the letter to the judge or court myself, if a member of MADD in Kentucky will, or if it will simply be submitted to the judge and court system to read. I felt like asking this question was appropriate because we lived several states away from each other when the accident happened, and he was residing in Louisville, Kentucky when he was killed, within city limits no less. As it was, it took Texas months to be informed based off of his Social Security Number being reported as deceased to inform me that our son might presumptively be eligible for survivor’s benefits off of his father’s work record. I didn’t find out about any of this until February of 2024.

If I’m given the chance to read my victim impact (statement?) to the judge or court myself I’ll do it. I’m led to believe that this will probably be over Skype, Zoom, or whatever the court system uses since I live so far from Louisville. And the fact that this dude was not only drunk but high when he did what he did changed everything for me, because then it became more than just an extremely bad accident. He chose to get behind the wheel drunk, and he chose to get behind the wheel high, and had four open bottles of alcohol in his vehicle when law enforcement went through it afterward, which he was charged on all four counts for.

I should have extended that whole philosophy nearly carte blanche to the people that I went to secondary school with, excepting like three people from it. It would have saved me so much of the trouble, and wasted time spent on the majority of these people attempting to interact with me when the main problem has always been their inability to keep their mouths shut. These people plague me in their perpetual annoyances.