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Ferric67 · M
@catastrophecarnival I'm sure you experience daily residual pain from that sort of trauma?
What was the extent of your injuries?
I too got hit by a small pick up truck
Totally my fault, I had a few too many beers and thought that I can cross the street without looking
Wrong
I was with a lady friend too, and she sped up to cross the street with me
As the pick up truck approached, I sensed it and jumped up and forward, literally scooping her up like a cat from her upper back (see never saw the truck either since she was focused on keeping up with me). The truck struck my leg propelling towards the sidewalk. I landed standing upright right on to the sidewalk still holding her...she had no clue that I had gotten hit and thrown through the air with her. She immediately starts yelling at me
"What the fuck was that?"
That's when I tell her that I had gotten hit from the side (the point of impact was my lower right leg....she was to my left).
As she's yelling at me, the pick up driver immediately pulls over and frantically starts running up and down the road looking for a downed pedestrian.
This is all happening around 1 am
I see him stop, and I follow his gaze to the sidewalk (which is slightly elevated) find my feet...and then slowly scan upwards....until he sees me completely....and it starts to dawn on him....that I'm the fella he hit...and I'm still standing, looking at him.
Now, he's a little guy, standing in the middle of the road looking up at me as I stood on an elevated sidewalk...and he starts to panic
As in, what's this big guy going to do to me
At that very moment, any anger that I had in me for getting hit completely dissipated due to this little guy's panic over the fact the he was thinking that I was going to physically assault him.
He runs over to me and almost starts begging.
I feel bad for him, and I assure him it's forgiven
Too this day, my right leg is not quite right....but I work it to keep it strong and functioning
If you met me, you'd never know that I was hit as a pedestrian by a pick up truck.
Had I not jumped, who knows how bad I would have been injured
It's my fault, I blame myself for recklessly wandering into the road
What was the extent of your injuries?
I too got hit by a small pick up truck
Totally my fault, I had a few too many beers and thought that I can cross the street without looking
Wrong
I was with a lady friend too, and she sped up to cross the street with me
As the pick up truck approached, I sensed it and jumped up and forward, literally scooping her up like a cat from her upper back (see never saw the truck either since she was focused on keeping up with me). The truck struck my leg propelling towards the sidewalk. I landed standing upright right on to the sidewalk still holding her...she had no clue that I had gotten hit and thrown through the air with her. She immediately starts yelling at me
"What the fuck was that?"
That's when I tell her that I had gotten hit from the side (the point of impact was my lower right leg....she was to my left).
As she's yelling at me, the pick up driver immediately pulls over and frantically starts running up and down the road looking for a downed pedestrian.
This is all happening around 1 am
I see him stop, and I follow his gaze to the sidewalk (which is slightly elevated) find my feet...and then slowly scan upwards....until he sees me completely....and it starts to dawn on him....that I'm the fella he hit...and I'm still standing, looking at him.
Now, he's a little guy, standing in the middle of the road looking up at me as I stood on an elevated sidewalk...and he starts to panic
As in, what's this big guy going to do to me
At that very moment, any anger that I had in me for getting hit completely dissipated due to this little guy's panic over the fact the he was thinking that I was going to physically assault him.
He runs over to me and almost starts begging.
I feel bad for him, and I assure him it's forgiven
Too this day, my right leg is not quite right....but I work it to keep it strong and functioning
If you met me, you'd never know that I was hit as a pedestrian by a pick up truck.
Had I not jumped, who knows how bad I would have been injured
It's my fault, I blame myself for recklessly wandering into the road
@Ferric67 I don't remember anything about the accident ...I only know what I was told ...which was I was crossing the street to get to work and I was it and was thrown up in the air and my head went through the person's windshield...it's on cctv footage too
I was in a coma for three days ... sustained swelling in my brain and major head trauma ...fractured skull. .I was told if the fracture was just an inch deeper I'd suffer constant dizziness and gave to be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. . Luckily that wasn't the case
Fractured sacrum ..
It was very painful .
I have chronic sciatic nerve pain ...vertigo once in a while and migraine every so often. . .went through major depression after ...honestly I'm pretty lucky .. took me a long time to fully heal ..couldn't be left alone because of frequent bouts of vertigo ...needed lots of different types of therapy...had to learn to walk again ...I'm stubborn af i wasn't going to let it stop me
I was in a coma for three days ... sustained swelling in my brain and major head trauma ...fractured skull. .I was told if the fracture was just an inch deeper I'd suffer constant dizziness and gave to be in a wheelchair for the rest of my life. . Luckily that wasn't the case
Fractured sacrum ..
It was very painful .
I have chronic sciatic nerve pain ...vertigo once in a while and migraine every so often. . .went through major depression after ...honestly I'm pretty lucky .. took me a long time to fully heal ..couldn't be left alone because of frequent bouts of vertigo ...needed lots of different types of therapy...had to learn to walk again ...I'm stubborn af i wasn't going to let it stop me