Hit and run victim on road to recovery

She was knocked off her bicycle last July as she neared the Colonel English Bridge in Hattieville. The cowardly motorist that hit her drove off, leaving the seven year old for dead. But little Skylar Sanchez not only survived, but is rapidly recovering from her ordeal. News Five’s Jacqueline Woods has an update.

Floreth Requeña
?How you eat it??

Skylar Sanchez
?I lick it.?

Floreth Requeña
?You remember??

(Shakes head, yes)

Floreth Requeña
?And who all mi di cry round you when you mi deh pan the bed when you just start to wake up??

Skylar Sanchez
?Dah you.?

Floreth Requeña
?And who else??

Skylar Sanchez
?Gran.?

Jacqueline Woods, Reporting
Seven year old Skylar Sanchez continues to show signs of steady improvement after almost losing her life when she was knocked off her bicycle a short distance from her home in Hattieville.

Having seen her in a coma, today it is hard to imagine that for three weeks little Skylar had to struggle just to stay alive. An x-ray revealed that there were multiple skull fractures that left the child with only partial brain activity and doctors feared that their young patient had suffered permanent damage. Floreth Requeña says the road to recovery has been challenging, but she remains optimistic about her daughter?s future.

Floreth Requeña, Mother
?She is still slow, she can?t walk in slippers, she walk inna her tennis much better. She can?t walk inna slippers, she kick it off, she still kinda struggling on her foot. It kinda still lee rough, but she di get there.?

Skylar?s laughs and smiles certainly brighten up a room, but there are times when she is alternates between withdrawal and aggression. Requeña believes it may be as a result of her trauma.

The family has been a constant support to Skylar?s recovery and it is hoped that she will soon be able to return to school.

Floreth Requeña
?She walks better, she talks?well she di count from one to forty. She noh really di go dah school, but we wah try send her all of next week and see how she wah work on it.?

Skylar says she loves school but feels nervous about going back because she says some of the children have not been too kind. Next month she will need to undergo another examination and continues to receive physical therapy.

Floreth Requeña
?Well mostly they will check in her head, she how she di develop, if the skull and the brain di come back tight like before. But to me I feel it myself and she di improve a lot.?

Sadly, the hit and run driver has never been caught. Skylar says she only remembers being hit in the back of the head and falling into bushes.

Floreth Requeña
?No, we noh hear bout ah and the police noh tell me nothing. They noh hear nothing, but I still want he know that I forgive ah. God give me back my daughter and from inna June up to now, it going for almost a year, eight months or something like that, and Skylar much better.?

As Skylar continues to recuperate at home she sends out a big thanks to all those persons who helped her and her mother during her stay in the hospital. Jacqueline Woods for News Five.
The vehicle that knocked down Skylar Sanchez is described as a green two-door pickup.