Recovering Grace-fully
Kristy Barry
Issue date: 9/26/06 Section: News
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After being hit and pinned under a car last week, Rutgers-Newark sophomore Grace Kim will sit in her dorm room for four to six weeks to undergo recovery.
Last Wednesday, Kim, 19, was struck by a speeding car on Bleeker Street as she was returning to her dorm room in University Square.
At the time, Kim said that she remembers looking both ways but just didn't see the car. As she recalls, the car was "going pretty fast."
Today, she's moving around in a wheelchair and tending to her wounds.
According to Kim, she must keep her leg elevated and change her Vaseline gauze and other wound dressings twice a day.
A nurse also cares for her in the morning while her parents take over at night.
"This is something I've never felt before," Kim said with a chuckle. "I don't recommend anyone getting run over by a car."
Regarding the day of the accident, Kim said she's a little fuzzy remembering exactly what happened.
"I don't remember banging into the windshield, but I knew there was a crack in the windshield so I guess it was my head," Kim said. After the car hit her, Kim said she thought, "Wow, I'm screaming pretty loud, I should be quiet."
Kim was taken to University Hospital at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and was treated for two fractured toes and two quarter-sized holes cut down to her tendon. "The less painful stuff," she said.
Her skin was ripped off the top of her foot, down to the second layer, "where the nerve endings are, I can feel them," Kim said. "Kind of like a third degree burn."
Kim questions why the driver wouldn't move the car off her foot.
"I heard other people yell to her. I mean, I don't know her but I was kind of irritated that she stayed on my foot."
The driver, who was charged with careless driving, only spoke Portuguese, got out of the car and tended to Kim.
"I hope she's okay and her daughter, I don't want to be morbid," Kim said.
As for classes, Kim is still taking 16 credits and doesn't plan on dropping any. "I'm taking a lot of science classes this semester and am pretty behind on my organic chemistry, so if any one wants to tutor me," Kim said.
Her friends are taking notes and going to lectures for her and in four to eight weeks, according to Kim, she should be healed and undertaking rehabilitation.
"I'm really grateful to my friends and people I don't know," Kim said. "[It] feels nice to be loved. I really appreciate everything."
Last Wednesday, Kim, 19, was struck by a speeding car on Bleeker Street as she was returning to her dorm room in University Square.
At the time, Kim said that she remembers looking both ways but just didn't see the car. As she recalls, the car was "going pretty fast."
Today, she's moving around in a wheelchair and tending to her wounds.
According to Kim, she must keep her leg elevated and change her Vaseline gauze and other wound dressings twice a day.
A nurse also cares for her in the morning while her parents take over at night.
"This is something I've never felt before," Kim said with a chuckle. "I don't recommend anyone getting run over by a car."
Regarding the day of the accident, Kim said she's a little fuzzy remembering exactly what happened.
"I don't remember banging into the windshield, but I knew there was a crack in the windshield so I guess it was my head," Kim said. After the car hit her, Kim said she thought, "Wow, I'm screaming pretty loud, I should be quiet."
Kim was taken to University Hospital at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey and was treated for two fractured toes and two quarter-sized holes cut down to her tendon. "The less painful stuff," she said.
Her skin was ripped off the top of her foot, down to the second layer, "where the nerve endings are, I can feel them," Kim said. "Kind of like a third degree burn."
Kim questions why the driver wouldn't move the car off her foot.
"I heard other people yell to her. I mean, I don't know her but I was kind of irritated that she stayed on my foot."
The driver, who was charged with careless driving, only spoke Portuguese, got out of the car and tended to Kim.
"I hope she's okay and her daughter, I don't want to be morbid," Kim said.
As for classes, Kim is still taking 16 credits and doesn't plan on dropping any. "I'm taking a lot of science classes this semester and am pretty behind on my organic chemistry, so if any one wants to tutor me," Kim said.
Her friends are taking notes and going to lectures for her and in four to eight weeks, according to Kim, she should be healed and undertaking rehabilitation.
"I'm really grateful to my friends and people I don't know," Kim said. "[It] feels nice to be loved. I really appreciate everything."
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