It’s always amazing how life can throw you curves; how circumstances come together in ways that throw you for a loop… early this morning Katie B, my housemate and fellow intern, was in a car accident. She’s now laid up in the hospital with an impacted vertebrae that requires surgery, a broken toe, and a broken wrist. She may be going home to the States to have the surgery and will be out of commission until Christmas. It still feels unreal that this happened, and I can only imagine that it is ten times more unimaginable for her. It could have been worse – the car flipped over – and luckily her parents were in town for a visit, so they are able to be here with her and help figure out the logistics of things.
We were out last night for a going-away party for one of our friends, and Katie went along to bring him to the airport while the rest of us headed home, On the way to the airport, the accident occurred. We didn’t hear of this until about 11 this morning when Katie’s dad came by to fill us in.
It just doesn’t seem fair. After everything she went through to get over here, with all the same paperwork issues I had, it seems so wrong that she will have to go back home for awhile. As I said, it could have been worse, in a lot of ways, but it still seems so unreal that it happened at all. Our house won’t be the same without her here- she is such a fun person and a great running partner!


The good news is that before this happened, I had a fabulous time in London - see below.