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Skating with Celebrities has just ended, and I thought my mom was calling me up for a re-cap of the show. But no, she was notifying me that my dad had been hit by a bus while he was walking to his car.

She was not sure of the severity, but after I had been pacing around for an hour, and receiving another call from Mom, I knew I had to go home. Nick and Jared got a car and drove me all the way to Robert Wood Johnson Univ. Hospital in New Brunswick, so I seriously couldn't ask for better roomates.

That night and the past 2 days seem like a blur. My dad is recovering, but he's got quite a few broken ribs, a broken collarbone, and an assortment of internal injuries. We are just unsure of how this accident occurred in the first place, and even he cannot be 100% since it hit him from behind.

Today was his 54th Birthday, and it made me really sad that he had to spend it in the hospital. I visited him this morning with my mom and gave him a Johnny Damon t-shirt, and he was pretty excited about it, expressing it as much as he could given the circumstances.

I came back to school today (Weds.) but I'll be going home again tomorrow night to be there for my mom, and to hopefully bring my dad home sometime this weekend. I'll be missing our party on Saturday, but I love my mom and dad and being with them in a time of need is something which obviously takes precidence over a party. I'll get to watch lots of TV with my dad, and eat lots of different kinds of cookies.