Mother opens up about her 12-year-old boy’s long recovery after being hit by a car

“I haven’t slept much. Just looking at him makes me cry. I wish I could make him forget the pain he’s feeling,” the mother said. “So far, he has two broken femurs and a broken pelvis. His right eye doesn’t move all the way to the right and they’re still doing more tests. They fixed his legs, but he’s still in a lot of pain.”

“He remembers getting to the light with his brother and his friends. He said he looked up to hear what Wyatt had said. He looked up to see if the light was red and he started toward the crosswalk. That’s when the light turned green and he looked around. The cars were all staying where they were,” she said. “So he kept going and then this car wasn’t there anymore and it came rushing up and picked him up. And then he remembers waking up in the hospital.”

“He asked me why I did it once and why the driver didn’t slow down and stuff like that. Now I think that’s when reality kind of set in,” Regina says. “He got a little irritable, but I know why he realizes how serious it is and what’s happening to him.”

“I was told he’d be in a wheelchair for six to eight weeks, and then he’d have to come back for six months to a year, about four times a week,” she said. “He has to see four different specialists, and we don’t have a car. The bus doesn’t come to the hospital, so it’s going to be Uber. And that’s going to be about $250 a week, and Dad works, but he doesn’t have a job as a caregiver anymore.”

“It’s like there’s some kind of light that indicates the crossing so people can see it, preventing it from happening to anyone else,” she said.

“We have to stay strong and keep fighting,” the mother said. “We have to get there sooner than expected.”