Lilia Roo / Berrysap 🔜 IFC on Nostr: It's been a few weeks since I got hit-and-run while on my bicycle. My bruises are ...

It's been a few weeks since I got hit-and-run while on my bicycle. My bruises are healed now and the residual pain with my knee has thankfully subsided. However, the mental health effects are still strong. My heart races and I dissociate when I think about getting hit, and I have not been able to sleep well because the crash keeps replaying in my head for hours at a time as I lay in bed.

Now, I learn someone else has gotten hit at the same intersection, but today's victim did not survive: https://www.fox6now.com/news/milwaukee-fatal-crash-25th-canal

I didn't take the news very well at first, and I still am not to a degree, but I need to try to break through the mental paralysis and do what I can -- talk to the city, talk to the county, talk to the DNR (owner of the pathway), talk to friends who work at local news outlets, talk to the safer streets organizations, anyone and everyone. I could have easily been killed instead of merely injured a few weeks ago, and this blurb is a harrowing reminder of that, because people *are* getting killed here. I need it to stop; I need it to not happen to anyone else.

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