EAST COUNTY – Skylar Potter is no different from most toddlers – cute and curious, entranced by cartoon character Dora the Explorer and in love with her orange tabby, Freckles.
Yet the 2-year-old is dealing with challenges no child should face.
She is relearning how to talk, how to walk, how to throw a ball. Just three months ago, Skylar did these things with ease. That was before she suffered a traumatic brain injury May 17 in a horrific traffic accident near her home just east of El Cajon.
For weeks, Skylar's parents, Ricky Potter and Ashley Pederson, feared she might not live. If not for a neighbor who administered CPR and rescue breathing, the firefighters and paramedics who cared for her, and the doctors and nurses at Rady Children's Hospital, she might not have.
After a two-month hospital stay, including three weeks in a medically induced coma in the intensive-care unit, Skylar went home July 18. Tomorrow, Potter, 24, and Pederson, 19, will host a barbecue at El Monte Park in Lakeside to thank the people who helped save their daughter.
The only thing, Potter said, is that “ 'thank you' really doesn't do justice.”
Firefighters and paramedics from the San Miguel Consolidated Fire Protection District and the Santee Fire Department have visited Skylar at the hospital and at home. Businesses also came to the family's aid, donating a steel-reinforced car seat, a gently used car and free auto insurance for a year.
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