A Portland bicyclist who was hit by a car last week is recovering in the hospital and is just beginning his search for the driver who hit him, though the accident was not a hit-and-run.

At the time, the driver stopped to make sure the cyclist, Sage Silver, was okay.

Silver said he thought he was alright, so the driver left.

It wasn't until hours later that Silver had to be rushed to the hospital; he was suffering from internal bleeding.

Now police want to know who hit him.

Silver was riding home from work about 10 p.m. last Friday along Alberta Street when a car making a left turn ran into him.

“He was like, ‘Are you okay? Are you okay?’ He repeated it a couple of times before I even responded because I was really hurting,” Silver said. “It didn't seem super bad at the time. It really hurt. I just figured it's bound to hurt when you get hit by a car."

Silver told the driver he would just walk home and though he would be fine, so the driver left the scene.

It wasn't until early Saturday morning he went to a hospital emergency room.

“My whole stomach and strangely enough my left shoulder was really hurting," he said. It turned out his spleen was bleeding.

And what makes it all worse is the cost of treatment and the fact that Silver, who’s just out of college, doesn’t have insurance.

Silver didn't get any of the driver's contact information.

“I wasn't exactly thinking totally straight or I would have been like, ‘Sir, what's your license plate number? Could I please get that?’ You know what I mean?”

Now he hopes the driver will come forward and help pay for his recovery.

Silver describes the car that hit him as a white sedan and likely an American car. It was a 4-door with a red interior.