Charity Woodrum

And one of those sneaker waves, you know, hit them and swept them out to sea.

My memory, you know, fades in and out on that day.

I eventually found myself in an ambulance and my eyes were closed and I felt a banging on my head.

And I woke up and realized I was hitting myself in the head saying, you know, wake up.

This can't be real.

And, you know, then I realized it's getting dark outside, and I had heard that the Coast Guard was going to call off the search once it got dark.

And so then I guess I started freaking out because apparently I jumped out of the ambulance door through the back and just started running towards what I thought was the ocean, but I actually didn't see the ocean nearby.

I didn't know where I was.

I'm barefoot.

One of the cops, you know, pulls me back into the ambulance.

And I guess I did that a couple of times.

Yeah, eventually they drove me to the hospital and I guess I was just screaming a lot and, you know, couldn't, I was just screaming.

And so a nurse came up to me and had a pill in her hand and she said, do you want to just fall asleep?

And I took that pill.

And I was hospitalized like that for about five days, I believe.

I woke up and I realized, you know, it made national news that, you know, Jason and Woody had been, you know, swept out to sea.

I feel like it was, I was trying to, I realized they weren't going to search for them anymore and I wanted to find them.

I think that was my intention.

They took that as me being suicidal.

I didn't think I was, but I've heard people say that they thought that I wanted to join them.