As teen recovers from near-fatal accident, his family holds with teen who struck him

As Alex Nelson lies in a dimmed room during a Saint John Regional Hospital, he grips a set of off-white rosary beads. 

They were a present from Hanna Bordage, a 16-year-old lady who was pushing a black Honda that struck him progressing this month near the dilemma of Prospect Street and Duncan Lane in Fredericton.

“Alex has not let go of it since,” pronounced his mother, Terri Taylor.

The pile-up left a 18-year-old with a critical mind injury, and he spent days fighting for his life.

“I only keep perplexing to remind myself of a small pieces of light by all this darkness,” Taylor said.

Although Taylor wishes she could go behind in time and change what happened that day, she wouldn’t take behind assembly a Bordage family.

The near-fatal pile-up on Jan. 8 sparked an doubtful loyalty between a dual Fredericton families, who differently competence never have met.

The families have upheld any other in Facebook messages, a joint visit to a hospital where Alex is staying and a handwritten note about forgiveness.

“We’re going to get by this together,” Taylor said.

How they met

Over a past dual weeks, Taylor has used Facebook posts to keep family and friends updated on Alex’s liberation from a crash. One of a posts asked readers to urge for a motorist who strike him.

That’s when Hanna decided to strech out to Alex’s family.

She sent a Facebook summary to Julia, Alex’s 16-year-old sister.

You don’t know what to say. You only know you have to be there.– Joemana Bordage, Hanna’s mother

Hanna introduced herself and asked how Alex was creation out in sanatorium and apologized over and over again for striking him. 

“She didn’t meant to harm him,” Taylor said.

The dual families motionless to finally meet in person.

Hanna, her mom, aunt and grandmother met over a weekend during a sanatorium in Saint John. 

“You don’t know what to say,” pronounced Hanna’s mother, Joemana Bordage. “You only know you have to be there.”

Hanna sat outward while her mom went into Alex’s sanatorium room. She wasn’t prepared to accommodate him face to face only yet. 

Both mothers understood.

Inside a sanatorium room 

When Alex’s mom told him Hanna’s mom had come to visit, he reached out and squeezed Bordage’s hand. 

Weak and incompetent to pronounce clearly, he whispered into his possess mother’s ear.

He asked about Hanna.

“He is fighting for his life in a sanatorium bed and he is endangered about Hanna,” pronounced Bordage, who hold behind tears during a time.

Then Bordage gave him Hanna’s rosary beads, that she’d perceived after her benediction during 6 months old. He weaved a beads through his fingers.

“That’s how we get by things,” pronounced Bordage. “We pray.”‘

A snowy expostulate home 

Hanna, a Grade 11 tyro at École Sainte-Anne in Fredericton, was pushing home from propagandize in a sirocco on that day in early January.

The newly protected motorist knew a roads were poor. And Hanna’s father cautioned her to be clever and expostulate slowly — even if it hurt other drivers. The teen even incited a song off inside her automobile to concentrate.

The zealous soccer actor and straight-A tyro pronounced she was pushing 20 kilometres next a speed extent when she speckled a walking walking in a same instruction on the side of a bustling street. There aren’t any sidewalks in that area.

She swerved into a median of Prospect Street — putting herself in danger — while perplexing to evasion a pedestrian, who was Alex. 

But it was too late. Her automobile strike Alex and sent him into a ditch.

Hanna immediately called 911. When paramedics arrived, Alex’s face was distended and lonesome in dirt. 

There was blood everywhere.

A travel to transparent his head 

Just before a crash, Alex told his mom he was going for a travel to Tim Hortons. 

The Grade 12 Fredericton High School student battles anxiety and depression, so walking was a approach to transparent his head.

“The final thing we pronounced to him was, ‘Be clever and we adore you,'” pronounced Taylor.

About 20 mins later, she listened sirens about 100 metres from her home.

She didn’t consider anything of it and gathering her daughter, Julia, to work during a north-side Dairy Queen.

When she returned home, Taylor beheld her son’s black Sorel boots weren’t in a doorway.

“I had this offensive feeling devour me.”

‘Moments divided from losing him’

Instinctively, Taylor ran out of a house, in her navy snowflake pyjamas and white slippers, to a collision scene, where military reliable it was her son who had been hit.

Alex was immediately sent to a Saint John Regional Hospital. He had surgery to mislay a blood clot in his brain. The surgery lasted only over an hour, though “felt like a million years,” Taylor said. 

“We were only moments divided from losing him.”

Taylor is austere a pile-up wasn’t Hanna’s fault. In fact, she believes a teen’s quick greeting is what kept Alex from pang some-more critical injury.

“She is as shop-worn emotionally as my son is physically,” Taylor said.

There haven’t been any rapist charges following a crash.

Alex will be staying during a sanatorium for several months and will pierce to the Stan Cassidy Centre for Rehabilitation in Fredericton after that.

Taylor and Bordage have been texting and articulate over a phone — especially on a bad days. They share jokes, giggle and cry together.

“We’ll perpetually be family now,” Taylor said.

Alex has damaged skeleton on a right side of his skull and his maxillary sinuses are shattered. He is relearning how to travel and eat on his own. The right side of his face is paralyzed. 

In a future, Alex could onslaught to travel and talk — he could even remove his memory and cognitive ability. Doctors still don’t know either he’ll be a same chairman he was before a crash.

But he did conduct to write his initial judgment this week:  

“I’ll always forgive.”

Article source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/car-crash-friendship-mothers-brain-injury-1.5433745?cmp=rss