A Port Hope girl who fought for her life after being hit by a car two years ago is making strides in her recovery and is now the central character in a new campaign by SickKids Foundation.
That’s the first thing Shea Kerin got to taste after six months of feeding through a tube. Seated with her family in a Scarborough film studio, the 12-year-old spoke about the milestones in her recovery after miraculously surviving a car crash which killed her older brother in December 2020.
In July, in that dark Scarborough studio, Shea stood atop a mountain of crutches and wheelchairs. Beside her was a black car, flipped over — a recreation of the accident when Shea and her brother Cormac were struck by a vehicle while waiting for their school bus on a snowy morning. The surgery took all day, but was successful. Shea emerged alive, though unresponsive. She couldn’t walk, talk or eat, and “it’s difficult to know how someone will recover after such a significant injury,” said Ibrahim.
“They’re real kids who have had real stories, real experiences that we can only begin to try to understand,” said Lisa Charendoff, associate director of community stakeholder relations at SickKids Foundation. “By coming here, we want them just to have a wonderful time, to feel special and to feel appreciated for what they’re doing and to have an experience that they can tell people about and say, ‘Look, I’m in that movie.
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