Riverton Motor Inn
83 Main St N R0C 2R0 Riverton, MB, Canada

Today marks Day 11. I think it’s time. I don’t think I will ever be ready to talk about this but I need you all... our friends and family and some of you that I... don’t even know personally to know the severity of Amaya and her injuries. Our family and close friends have all gotten the news about Amaya, I’m sorry if I haven’t gotten the chance to speak to some of you personally, I hope you understand. This is something I haven’t even wrapped my head around, or delt with anything mentally yet, this will be a shock and upsetting. We have had 10 days of this, of listening and learning and dealing take a deep breath before you read and remember this amazing little girl is alive. When Amaya was in the accident along with her brain injury, her eye and her fractured pelvis. She broke her neck and has a severe spinal cord injury. Her neck not only broke but it dislocated from each other. Her spinal cord is badly damaged. Her spinal break is called cervical (neck) thoracic (back) C7-T1 incomplete spinal cord injury. She broke in between the two vertebrates that connect the neck part of the spine to the back. Amaya went for an 8 hour surgery the day of the accident, she had one of the best Nero surgeons in North America working on her. It was by flook that he was here, he wasn’t supposed to be here that day, he travels to different hospitals as needed. The surgery went very smoothly and was the fastest accident to surgery the hospital has had. This night is a complete blur to me I cried a lot, I screamed a lot, I fell to the floor many times i wanted to escape this nightmare, but this is reality. I walk the halls on auto pilot just going through the motions. It was the longest 8 hours I have ever endured. Her surgery went really well, however when they cut open her back there was already damage to the spinal cord, her spinal fluid was leaking out, the surgeon did his best to save as much as they could. Then came the time for the surgeon to tell us the news. The news I was never prepared for... the news a mother never wants to hear, a true heart break and nightmare. I’m sorry but your daughter is paralyzed and the likely hood of her moving anything from the neck down is unlikely, this will be a lifetime injury. Amaya’s neck from C3 to C7 is completely fused together. I completely lost it, all of our family that was there lost it, I had to be carried to a bed and a lorazepam shoved in my mouth to calm me down and stop sobbing. My baby will never walk again. For days later she was on a ventilator, the day after her surgery they took down some of her sedation to see her reaction. Well the surgeon was wrong Amaya can move her arms, head and shoulders. But yes Amaya is paralyzed from mid chest down. Like I told you before about her brain injury, the rest of that story is that we were worried about her memory both long term and short term, I’m happy to say she remembers everyone, she remembers how to read and spell. She remembers everything up until the accident. She remembers how to speak and talks often. though her throat is still healing from the ventilator being in for 7 days, she is doing well with speaking. With Amaya’s spinal cord injury yes she can move her arms and yes she can control them but her motor skills to move her fingers (hopefully temporary) are gone. She was involuntarily moving her arms, very spastic. We were concerned about this. But I told Amaya about the accident on Tuesday and about all her injuries, since then her spasms have stopped. She needed closure from her mom what was happening to her body and what had happened that day, her mind is at ease. Amaya will be in the paediatric intensive care unit for at least another two to three weeks, and as of now the doctors say she will be in hospital for at least four months. She will stay in the PICU for as long as she is needing support for her breathing. Amaya is able to breath on her own however because she is still healing and because she has no feeling from the chest down her lungs are not fully functioning. Her left lung keeps collapsing, she has the support of a bi pap machine right now. We use our diaphragm to breath, we use our abdomen to cough both of these Amaya has lost the feeling of. She is re learning how to do both, I hope she will over come this. She is unable to go to bathroom on her own, again because she has lost that feeling. I think this is everything. I’m sure there is a few things I missed, my brain is mush it is pulled in so many directions. To all of you with little ones, hold them close, say I love you, and give hugs... you never know if your life will change, I never thought this would happen to my family... this is supposed to be only in the movies... but never to me. Please keep praying please keep sending that unicorn magic. Kids are resilient and they can recover past our expectations. I’m having a hard time looking at the positive but I’m trying. We can do this. She can do this! I will do anything, fly her anywhere and pay for anything if it means she will have partial or full function back. I just want my adventurous, happy, particular, crazy, hyper, loving, smart 7 year old girl back. Please keep the unicorn magic coming and please pray for my little girl. please share so everyone that is supporting her can see this #MagicForAmaya #prayforamaya

Afternoon everyone, I know you guys have been waiting but it’s been an emotional few days for me. I would like to let you know about another one of Amaya’s inj...uries, it has to do with the brain injury/swelling that I told you about previously on another post. So the day of the accident the girls were on their way to go learn how to figure skate with grandma Susan. While I was getting them ready to leave they were adamant about wearing there brand new figure skating helmets... they were wearing their helmets when they were in the accident. To this day and forever I will never know if the helmet on Amaya caused more harm than good. But she’s alive so for that I’m thankful. The helmet because of the location of her abrasions on her face is what I think caused her brain injury but we will never know, it could have been far worse without it. Looking at Amaya’s face the day of and days after, she had major swelling of her face and head. The swelling is gone now. She has a abrasion by her left eye from the helmet (it’s fine) an abrasion on her right cheek (it’s fine) she a pretty large cut that was stitched on her right eye lid. Because of her brain swelling they weren’t able to know about her eye sight in her right eye, it was very sluggish but now it seems that she can see out of both of her eyes. Her right eye seems to be following, dilating and closing properly. When the eye doctor looked at her eye... he said the front of her eye looks good, the inside of her eye looks good and the nerve seems to be intact. She has broken a bone in her orbital eye socket, that as of now the doctors do think she will need surgery on but for now this is not priority. She has other major injuries that has to have the upmost attention. Thank you every one please share #MagicforAmaya #prayforamaya

Hello... just wanted to let you know of one of Amaya’s injuries... In the accident Amaya fractured many parts of her bilateral ilium (the outer round parts of ...your pelvis). The surgeons don’t foresee any surgeries for this, since she is so young, and she won’t be leaving a bed any time soon they should heal perfectly on there own. I will hopefully have some more good news for everyone soon. Please pray and send magic her way, we have many more hurdles to over come. Also please share the post so everyone looking out for her can see the magic is working. #MagicForAmaya #prayforamaya

Good Morning everyone I would like to give you an update about Amaya. I’m sorry I’m still not able to talk about all of Amaya’s injuries just yet but we over ...came one hurdle on Thursday... When Amaya was in the car accident she suffered a brain injury. She had an external brain bleed (which is far better than internal) by her right eye they had to monitor her brain swelling by putting a probe in her head on her brain. The worst part of swelling happens between 48-72 hours after the injury. I am happy to say we are out of that darkness the Nero surgeon removed the probe from her brain. She is now responding by nodding her head yes and no to questions that we are asking her. Which is a huge relief. Thank you everyone when I have more that I’m ready to say look for the unicorn below please share the post so everyone with the magic will see this. #MagicForAmaya

Her unicorn family is growing