I got hit a couple of years ago. Flew up over the hood like you, turned the front wheel into a pringle and sheared off part of the pedal. We're lucky. Any day you get hit by a car and don't die is a good day.

I got the insurance money and bought a new bike. It was the end of the season so I got a great deal on a carbon fiber road bike.

The road rash cleared up in a few weeks, but I had a bad case of plantar fasciitis from the side of the bike that was against the ground. That lasted about a year and I really thought seriously about the long term implications. Eventually I found out that wearing shoes with good support in them and some rigid bike shoes fixed the Fasciitis. I actually went back to an old bike that I bought when my wife and I were dating and rode it all year, despite having the new one. I rode that bike hard last year until I could pretty much say I consumed it. There wasn't much left working or salvageable at the end of the year, but I liked the wheels so I kept them.

I kept the bike that got hit for parts and this year I re-built it. I used many of the parts to re-constitute a new one. Now that I know a little more about bikes I made some nice upgrades, like I found a nice new Campagnolo front caliper for $20.00 on-line and I'm really happy about some new road fenders I found. All the work kind of exorcised the demons from the bike and and with the upgrades it's better than it ever was.

I guess I could have avoided buying the new bike, but I think it helped me get over the accident emotionally. I was really mad. It was a life changing thing.
You never think that you could be riding home from work one day and Bam! You could be gone. I remember being very mad a couple of times shortly after the accident. My family thought I suffered from post traumatic stress disorder. Maybe they were right. I don't know. Buying the new bike kind of made it OK. I got over being mad at the guy and it helped me when I was still limping around a year later. After a year or so of limping around I really wondered if I should have sued him, but it did heal and eventually I was OK. I think the new bike helped me quit complaining, even though I didn't ride it much.

Now that my foot has stopped hurting and I've rebuilt the bike, I'm really looking forward to riding it this year. Both the bike and I are pretty much back to where we were when we got hit. We're not the same. We're both changed by the experience. But some things might actually be a little bit better.