From the Archive: I Was Hit by a Truck. For Real.

remember throwback thursday? this is like that, but for my old writing

Slight spoiler alert: On a recent episode of “The Pitt,” someone was hit by a car as a pedestrian and the doctor says they are lucky they survived because not many can say that. As someone who was hit by a CalTrans pickup truck, that line has been swirling in my head. I thought about this piece I wrote just a few days after the accident while I was still processing a lot. The unedited version is on my old blogsite.

I was hit by a truck. Literally. While I need to keep most details private for now, my husband and I were on a rare date and walking to our destination. One minute we were on the sidewalk and I was complaining about the rain potentially ruining my newly straight hair, and the next we were in the crosswalk when a truck struck me, launched me into the air, and I landed hard on the concrete. They say these things happen fast and I can assure you that’s absolutely true. I didn’t even know I got airborne until my husband told the cops at the hospital a couple hours later. All I knew was I had been hit by a freaking truck, my nice jeans had been ripped, my glasses had flown off, and everything hurt, but in an almost shocking, what the hell just happened way. Oh, and my hair was most certainly getting wet and un-straight.