PORTLAND -- The man who slammed into a cyclist with his car while trying to steal beer from a grocery store in Northeast Portland is going to prison.

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Jeremy Jordan listens to the judge in court Friday.

Jeremy Jordan was sentenced Friday to five years and eight months in prison. In addition, he will not be able to have a drivers license for eight years and he will be watched closely under post-prison supervision for the three years following his release.

Jordan hit Eric Davidson on May 10 and then left him lying in the street as he fled.

Police said Jordan was trying to buy beer from the Safeway on NE Fremont Street but the clerk refused to sell it to him, since he appeared drunk, so he took off with the beer and jumped into his car. As he sped away, police said Jordan hit Davidson, who just happened to be riding by at that moment on his bicycle.

Davidson, a 36-year old mortgage broker and avid outdoorsman was unable to walk or talk after the accident and suffered brain swelling. He treated in the trauma recovery unit at Legacy Emanuel Hospital and then eventually released to go home with his wife, who will now be his primary caregiver.

His wife, Anna-Carin Davidson spends most of her days at his bedside.

“Something that I’m telling my friends is enjoy your life, cause you never know if it is going to change or when,” Anna-Carin told KGW.

Jordan, 30, was captured because his license fell off during the crash, so police were able to track him down quickly. He was charged with DUII and felony hit and run in the case and pleaded guilty in court.

Anna-Carin keeps family and friends aware of her husband's progress through a blog she created online.

 Background: More on Jordan's arrest

Blog: Read wife's daily updates

"He’s doing so much better and he keeps on surprising his therapists and making them and all of us proud," she wrote in one entry. "Eric walked with a walker without assistance, which is what he did just a few weeks ago and now relearning this again; he did great... it was so nice to see him smile again."

The blog started as a way to update friends and family. But, according to Anna-Carin, it’s since expanded to a personal journal with hundreds of followers.

“I had strangers come up to my house with food, flowers from all over the country, food baskets, it is amazing,” she said.