Internet Marketer Hit By Car

I couldn’t talk about this when I first learned about it, but now that it’s pub­lic I wanted to pass the info along.

You may or may not know Julie Perry.

She’s a very dear friend of mine, a well-​​known Inter­net mar­keter, and an entre­pre­neur. We con­stantly see each other at sem­i­nars and always have a great time. She’s always laugh­ing, fun to be with, and a great person.

If you can’t pic­ture her, to help you here’s a photo of the both of us — you might have seen her at Inter­net mar­ket­ing sem­i­nars, yourself:

She’s known for her love of boats. She’s writ­ten a book on yacht­ing, and she’s also the host of The​Boaters​.tv, a web­site for yachters and boat lovers.

Now, the sad news…

Appar­ently, Julie has been hit by an (assum­ingly drunk) dri­ver on New Year’s Eve and is in pretty bad con­di­tion. (I say “assum­ingly” because it was a hit-​​and-​​run, and it was New Year’s Eve.)

This beau­ti­ful, bub­bly girl and a friend were tak­ing a rick­shaw over one of the bridges in Fort Laud­erdale (a small, two-​​wheel wagon pulled by some­one on foot), when the dri­ver hit them, fled the scene, and threw her from it hard.

My wife Sylvie and I were in shock when we first learned about this. (We still are!)

She has a bro­ken clav­i­cle and her shoul­der is pretty sore. She may have a bro­ken hip bone, too, although I’m not sure. And I don’t know how seri­ous the shoul­der injury is.

Part of her face has no move­ment for the time being, which makes it harder to talk. She’s still bleed­ing from one ear, too.

She’s a lit­tle groggy and doesn’t remem­ber any­thing from the acci­dent. She looks good con­sid­er­ing every­thing, but is still in a lot of pain.

They expect her to take about four weeks to recover. But she says she’ll do it in three! (Know­ing Julie, I believe her.)

She’s in good spir­its, happy to be alive.

A mutual friend, Heather Seitz, went to see Julie today and she’s doing much bet­ter. It looks like she will be going home early next week and will prob­a­bly start some phys­i­cal ther­apy tomorrow.

For­tu­nately, she won’t need any surg­eries. Her friend, how­ever, will need to have knee surgery.

A news reporter came to the hos­pi­tal to inter­view her, and they did a short video on her to ask for the public’s help and try and catch the person.

(They thought they had, but it turned out to be another acci­dent nearby.)

Here’s the video and news report. (Warn­ing: she’s in rough shape.)

Luck­ily, she’s well enough to answer her phone. If you want to get in touch with her directly, you can by check­ing out her Face­book pro­file.

A per­sonal note to Julie…

Sweetie, Sylvie and I are think­ing about you. Please get well soon, OK? We miss you. I expect to see you at the next sem­i­nar. We’ll be wait­ing for you.

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