Below is an update on the condition of Pepperdine student Alec Eagon who was hit by a car while running in late December. For those who don’t know, he was struck by a 92-year-old woman while running across a crosswalk. He flew through her windshield and was then catapulted 10 feet in the air before falling on the pavement several feet away from her car.
Alec Eagon returned to the hospital around December 28, due to severe head pain, lethargy and nausea caused by sodium depletion in the brain, according to an email from Eagon’s mother.
He returned home in stable condition the evening of December 30. While in the hosptial he had a third CatScan and MRI on his brain which showed that the old, very minute bleed was dissipating. It also showed a new, very minute bleed in a different place. As of now, the new bleed has not been deemed worrisome and Eagon will return to the neuro team for further analysis in one month.
During the first week of 2012 Eagon underwent an operation to have his nose straightened. According to his mother the cuts and abrasion on his face, insdie his mouth, his legs and flank are healing well.
More information will be provided as it becomes available.
Eagon is planning on returning to school for the May semester of summer school.
