Molly Burton isn’t focusing on the hour she drifted in and out of consciousness in a Courtenay riverside marsh after a hit-and-run last month.
Nor is she lamenting the multiple surgeries she’s had to endure since.
Instead, she sits in her hospital bed, grateful for her opportunities.
“Today is a better day, today is a good day,” she says, optimistic that doctors will still be able to save her leg.
Burton, just 24 years old, was saved on September 11 by a Good Samaritan – a boat owner who lived in the river near the road where the accident happened.
“It was a switch turned on, and I was like oh my god, I’ve been heard! Somebody heard me!,” she said.
“He’s the reason I’m still here.”
A 16-year-old suspect is facing charges of dangerous driving causing bodily harm and failing to stop at the scene of an accident. But Burton is focusing on the positive.
“It is way more important to me the selflessness I saw than the selfishness I saw.”
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