A Mexican vacationer who misplaced her leg after getting rammed by a runaway cab in Manhattan this week is “a fighter” who is decided to drag by, her husband advised The Put up.
However Daniela Hernandez, 32, has an extended highway to restoration forward, her household conceded Thursday.
“Daniela’s on heavy painkillers,” her husband, Carlos Almazan, mentioned exterior the hospital. “However she’s motivated to return by this.
“She’s a fighter,” Almazan mentioned.
Hernandez had her leg amputated after the horrific mishap Tuesday, simply hours earlier than she was attributable to return to San Luis Potosi after a Huge Apple jaunt with girlfriends.
Medical doctors at Bellevue Hospital at the moment are racing to save lots of her different leg as her household tries to consolation the married mom of two — and are ready for the swelling to go down to allow them to function on her remaining leg to strive to put it aside.
Almazan mentioned the docs estimate she’ll stay on the hospital for one more three weeks.
“It was the ladies’ final day within the metropolis earlier than they went residence,” her mom, Lucia Garate Gomez, mentioned contained in the hospital.
“She was within the incorrect place in a loopy metropolis the place anybody can have a license,” Gomez mentioned. “I don’t know the way we're going to cope with it and we have now to remain right here for I don’t know the way lengthy. We will’t. It’s not a pleasant metropolis. I don’t know what we're going to do.
“She has extra surgical procedures to return. She has bruises throughout and cuts and issues. She’s in quite a lot of ache,” she added. “We actually have to discover a method to assist her emotionally and bodily, but in addition we have to discover a technique to keep right here.
“Typically I need to suppose that I’m dreaming,” she mentioned. “That it’s not taking place. That somebody goes to inform me that it’s incorrect, that it was not true. That it’s not taking place.”
Gomez mentioned her daughter by no means misplaced consciousness and “noticed the whole lot.”
“She actually desires to seek out the man who helped her out and discover him,” she mentioned. “We don’t know who he was. She’s at all times been acutely aware.”
Footage from the scene of the crash on Broadway between twenty eighth and twenty ninth streets reveals hordes of excellent Samaritans dashing to the scene to free pedestrians pinned below the cab.
Police mentioned one other lady suffered extreme fractures to her leg, one other sufferer suffered a damaged left arm and fractured ribs, and others suffered bruises.
A supply near the household advised The Put up this week that most of the well-to-do homemaker’s buddies returned to Mexico from the town outing earlier on Tuesday.
Hernandez was attributable to depart that afternoon after some last-minute procuring.
Information of the tragic crash has struck Hernandez’s hometown arduous, the supply mentioned.
“Right here, the group could be very a lot affected by this tragedy,” he mentioned. “Everybody could be very unhappy. They need to know if there might be justice.”
He mentioned there's “incredulity” within the injured lady’s Central Mexico hometown that the driving force, recognized by police as Khan Zahangir, has not been charged within the crash.
“It’s very unusual,” he mentioned, and requested why Zahangir “just isn't even in custody.”
Police mentioned Zahangir remained on the scene following the crash that injured six.
The Put up reported this week that his cab had racked up 18 highway violations since 2019, however it's unclear if he was behind the wheel for any of these, police mentioned.
Extra reporting by Tina Moore
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