I figure a near death experience deserves an entry...
Justin and I went to Encino for our friend, Angel. Angel had started a new job and he wanted us to come check it out (I think he gets points for all of the people he brings). Anyway it was really boring and something I would never want to do, but it was more for Angel...I am a great friend :P The thing was supposed to start at 7 and take 45 minutes, but it ended up starting late and not finishing until 9. Justin and I had to wait around for Angel to finish.
Around 9:30 Angel met us and we were going to go eat because we were starving (since we thought we were going to eat an hour and a half ago). He needed an ATM so he went to Ralph's and we were supposed to meet him there. We were at the intersection of Ventura and Rubio and needed to cross Ventura (much busier street than Rubio). We pushed the walking button like any good law abiding citizen. The light turned green, but no walking man. We waited a couple more cycles before we decided that it was broken. I said "We are going to go the next time when the light turns green."
The light turns green and we start across the street. I am in front of Justin and I get out to the second of the 4 lanes on the street (so almost to the middle). Then, I hear Justin calmly say "Scott, you are going to get hit by a car." I thought he was joking, but I whip around anyway in time to see a white car (all I know is that it looked sporty and clean...perhaps a BMW) speeding at me at about 50-60 MPH...
At the last second I jump up as my life flashed before your eyes and I then I feel the impact plus here a loud boom. I see my shoe fly off my right foot into the third lane and my phone fly out and shatter across the road. The car keeps going without stopping and then another car decides to run through the light and almost hit me. I think they were drag racing because of the high speeds and the fact that they were together.
I stand in the street for a moment dumbfounded because it was surreal...Did I really just get hit by a car?
I walk over to the curb where Justin and some people have gathered. This woman asks me if I am okay and I say yes and that is when I start to feel the pain in my leg and my arm. I start shivering from shock and the cold and the woman (who is trying to make me feel better) says "Wow, if you wouldn't have jumped you would have been killed!!!"That makes me extremely nauseous and I almost puke. She gives me her jacket, Justin calls 911, I talk to the guy for a moment and then the ambulance comes and takes me away.
Angel was freaking out during this time, but that's okay. I got to the hospital where the really nice EMT guys got me blankets cuz I was freezing. They moved me to a bed next to this old lady who was having chest pains. I laid there for awhile trying to get warm, when the nurse pulled up the sheet to look at my leg. THEN, she forgot to put the covers back on...grrr. So, I go through the motions with the police, than the nurse, and then the doctor recounting my experience. The police tell me that they probably won't find them since I couldn't identify the model of the car, the driver, or the license (DUH!!! but how could I have done that being hit by a car going 60 MPH?)
The doctor checks my whole body and says it is a miracle that I am not hurt more. They think that I messed up my alignment since I hit my left arm and right leg, so they have to check all that. Amazingly, after the xrays came back I was only badly bruised with a possible sprain in my foot. Without that shoe I probably would have lost my foot or at least been badly injured, but the shoe took most of the impact being cut in half and all.
I finally got out of the hospital (it was a weird night and they forgot about me a couple times), but not before the nurse gave me a gabillion milligrams of IBprofen. After I took the pill she said "Make sure that when you take IBprofen that you eat with it because it can really mess up your stomach." I told her well won't it be a problem since it is 1:30 am and I haven't eaten since 11 for lunch?
So, Justin and Angel and I went and I had what I would want for my last meal if I ever had one: Chocolate Cake with Ice Cream. Then, they took me home and I went to bed around 3. I did go to school today and retold my story a billion times. I am lucky to be alive. I am sore today and my toe hurts like a mother along with the dead skin on my leg, but I shall overcome. PEACE OUT!
I might edit this more later...I might have forgotten something, but for now this is it.