Before you start reading this, please know I am okay.
I went for an early morning jog, as I often do, and a car hit me. He was texting while driving. Luckily we were in the sub where the speed limit is 25 mph. Being hit by the car wasn't the bad part, it was the falling to the ground and hitting my hip and shoulder on the ground, and then my head bouncing off the ground. I have never seen stars like I did this morning.
The car was planning to keep going, but someone five driveways down the road saw what happened and stepped out in the road in front of the car. Then the guy tried claiming he didn't know he hit me. Witnessed called 911. The guy that hit me asked if I was okay. I didn't even respond because I was trying to access my injuries and was still seeing stars. Then in an angry loud tone he yelled at me, "Are you fucking okay, or not?" The man that saw me get hit told him, "Calm down buddy, give her a second."
That's all I really remember and I just laid there. I knew I was okay, but I was stunned. My head still wasn't right. And when I heard the sirens I tried sitting up. The witness told me to stay there. I said something to him. The guy that hit me said, "See she's fucking drunk. No wonder she stepped out in front of me like she did. She's fucking drunk." I ignored him and wasn't about to try to explain. The ambulance pulled up, then the cop. First thing out of the driver's mouth who hit me was, "She's fucking hammered. She can't even talk right." The cop pulled the guy aside while the EMT examined me. EMT guy asked if I was hurt and I grabbed my left shoulder and then pointed to my head. I felt my head and could feel the bump growing. Then EMT girl laid a blanket over me and I then realized how cold I was. I suddenly felt so much warmer.
The witness said, "Your phone is broken, use mine to call someone." I nodded. And he handed me his iPhone. I dialed Dan. No answer. I dialed him again. No answer. I dialed the oldest. No answer. I dialed her again. She answered. I said, "I'm okay, but I was hit by a car out running. I'm putting you on speaker. Translate for me." And she explained my condition that affects my speech and I told her where I hurt and she told the EMT. During that, she woke up Dan. He was there in a couple of minutes. I was only a mile away from the house.
When he got there, I really seemed to come out of it. I wanted to sit up but EMT girl wouldn't let me. I told Dan, "Tell her I'm okay, I just need to sit up." And they helped me sit up. Dan sat behind me. EMT guy was shining his pen flash light in my eyes. EMT girl was monitoring the growing bump on my head.
I happened to look over and the guy that hit me was examining his car. Then I hear him say to the police officer. "I never hit her. I swear. She just was startled by my passing her and stumbled. I was driving down the middle of the road to avoid her." The witness said, "He's lying, he was veering off the road and he hit her. And he was about to drive away and I stepped in the road and stopped him. Then he started banging on the steering wheel knowing there was a witness. And the phone he was hitting on the steering wheel was holding a phone. He was texting and driving I assume." The officer started talking to the driver and I couldn't hear them. Then a fire truck was there and two more police cars. Our city has minute-men fire department, and a bunch of personal vehicles started pulling up with flashing lights.
And then it was decided by Dan and the two EMT's and one of the firemen that I was taking a ride to the hospital to be checked out further. My neurologist came by within an hour. Lot's of people coming in and checking my pupils and feeling my head. Then my neurologist order a brain scan. And I was wheeled off to have that done. Tests came back okay there.
6 hours later I got home, took a 3 hour nap in bed, and here I am. I have a very bruised shoulder. A broken phone. A bruise on my hip where I fell. A bruise on the back of my left thigh where the car hit me. My shoulder joint only hurts when I move my arm, but x-rays say there is no damage there. And I have a very sore head. Still a tiny bump on it, but not like it was shortly after it all happened. Other than all that I am perfectly fine and in tip top shape. hahaha
I think that of the original 9 lives I started with, I'm down to about 4 now.
