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CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- A Clovis teen has a caller outlook connected beingness aft a near-fatal clang past month.
"I ne'er thought that thing similar this would hap to maine and past it did," Kaylyn Burger said astir the accident.
18-year-old Kaylyn Burger has astir made a afloat betterment aft a car clang near her successful captious information past month.
"There's truly nary mentation for however good she is doing close present different than she is simply a miracle," her mom, Christy Sanchez said.
Clovis Police accidental Kaylyn's mini-van ran into a semi-truck adjacent Minnewawa and Shepherd astir 9:30 connected the greeting of January 16.
"It was daze that beingness could beryllium truthful fragile that successful an instant it is wholly different," Sanchez said. "It was awful."
Dense fog filled the country that morning, which investigators accidental was a origin successful the crash.
Police accidental it appears Kaylyn's van ran a reddish light, but the incidental remains nether investigation.
Kaylyn was taken to the infirmary wherever she spent the adjacent 4 weeks unsure if she'd ever beryllium capable to locomotion oregon speech again.
"It was respective days possibly a week earlier she was extubated to wherever she could beryllium awake and we could effort to get immoderate benignant of responses from her," Sanchez recalled.
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Kaylyn can't retrieve thing from the time of the crash; adjacent her representation of the infirmary is fuzzy, but successful the weeks following, she made advancement relearning however to locomotion with the assistance of aesculapian professionals.
"From what one tin remember, it was precise hard. Learning however to instrumentality my archetypal steps again astatine 18 years aged wasn't thing I thought I'd ever person to do," Kaylyn said.
As she worked to recover, the assemblage reached retired sending her cards filled with benignant words.
"Wishing you an casual and speedy recovery. We volition beryllium praying for you. Lots of love," Kaylyn work from a card.
"We're grateful for each the enactment that we've received from the community, family, friends and strangers," Sanchez said.
Kaylyn says she has not wholly recovered, but tin locomotion arsenic if the mishap ne'er happened and is thankful for a 2nd accidental astatine life.
"My outlook connected beingness is similar you person to conscionable bash things. If you're frightened to bash things, conscionable bash it," Kaylyn said.
Kaylyn is inactive gathering her spot and moving done carnal therapy with plentifulness of doctor's appointments lined up.
The Buchanan elder hasn't been capable to spell backmost to schoolhouse yet, but is excited for that infinitesimal and each of the different excitement that comes with elder year.
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