Auto Accident

Sept 10th 2013 Tuesday 7:10 AM I was on the way to drop my old Avalon of at the auto glass place. Change out the cracked windshield and then in the afternoon, sell the car to my son Erik. Last week we purchased Shar’s Dad’s old Lexus. “Old” but 9 years newer than my Avalon. As I came down Race Street, instead of stopping at the red light at First Street, for some reason, I ran the red light. I looked up, saw the red light and thought “What” Then I saw the red Chevy Avalanche and thought “this is going to hurt” It did. I was T-boned right into the drivers door. Crushing me between the center console and the Avalanche. It was over quick. Never lost conscientiousness. Left chest felt like someone has a baseball bat and was shoving the end very hard into my chest. A few bystanders and drivers there to talk to until paramedics came. Lots of questions and checking me out. Then they asked if I could crawl to the passenger side, which I did. They asked me if I could stand. I could not. But from there, they got a board under me, loaded me and took me to the hospital. (2 blocks away) Many X-rays etc. at OMC and they saw cracked pelvis and cracked rib. Tried to have me walk with a walker, only a few steps. Too painful. The pelvis had a high risk of continuing to bleed, so they sent me via ambulance to Harborview Trauma Center in Seattle. At Harborview they found a punctured and partially deflated left lung so put in a chest tube to relieve the pressure and let the trapped air out. Also discover the fractured sacrum on the left side. No weight on left leg for 12 weeks. Every time I try to use the right leg, the pelvis sends a pain message to get off the leg. So neither leg currently is useable.