A teenager who was hit by lightning over the weekend talked about his close brush with death Thursday.Jason Bunch was mowing the lawn and listening to his iPod at his home in Castle Rock in the 3200 block of Cherry Plum Way on Sunday when he was struck.He was taken to the hospital and was then put into the intensive care unit. Bunch recovered and was released from the hospital."I woke up and blood was coming out my ears," Bunch, a Douglas County High School senior, said.Bunch has large scars on his feet and smaller burn marks on his hands."From where the iPod was, it damaged my hearing and it ruptured my eardrums. Where the cord was, it burned me all down my body," said Bunch. "We need to shave my head because my hair is like dreadlocks. It’s all sticking together.""I’m just extremely blessed to be alive," he said. It was just two weeks ago that doctors in London warned of the dangers of listening to an iPod or using a cell phone during a thunderstorm.
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