Kyle Hepp

May 31, 2009

Today I got ran over by  a car. I was jogging and he ran a red light while I was crossing Ricardo Lyon. Just like Emily!…kind of. She got stitches the other week in her chin when she fell off her bike  riding to work but I just had to go and one up  her so I got hit by a car.

Like I said, I was crossing Ricardo Lyon on Pocuro (finishing up mile 3 of 4 from my jog). I had  a green walk sign and a car ran a red light and hit me pretty hard. According to the police, the impact caused me to go flying over 20 meters.

I blacked out  upon impact. Actually I don’t remember anything but seeing the green light and crossing. The man in the car took me to Hospital Salvador. But they put me in a room with someone with swine flu. The mom of the guy who hit me called S. because she found his number in m iTouch (which is now totally destroyed WAHHH, how will I live without it?!?!). Anyways, he came and took me right away to Clinica Santa Maria, which is where we have a convenio through our insurance. I still don’t remember any of this. The first thing I remember is asking everyone if I really got run over? Like, really, FOR REAL?!?! The first thing I asked S. was, “Is this real?” And then as a test to see if it was for real, for real...I asked him if I could blog about it.

Right now my body hurts everywhere. I feel like I just got run over…because I did. I got 8 stitches in my leg and have some nasty bruises elsewhere plus a mild concussion. Really I feel very lucky. I could have died. Easily. The guy hit me going pretty fast and ran me over. I really could have kicked the bucket. But I didn’t because I was born under a lucky star, a higher power might be watching out for me, and I have loooooooots of good karma coming my way

I’m at the Clinica Santa Maria overnight so don’t expect much blog posting from me in the next couple of days, but just wanted to give you guys an update. I’m pretty damn banged up, but don’t worry about me, I’ll be fine.

PS. Check out Papito’s Corner (the dog icon, top right on the home page) for pictures of her from today…because that’s what I do when I’m sad.