Caitlin Little lived for almost five years in a state of constant change. She had no recollection of any day before.
North Carolina teenager was hit in the forehead during 2017 sporting event. She was then sent into amnesia where her brain resets every night. Her father would have to inform her about all of her past events.
Now, however, the track star is trying to get back to her old self.
“It does feel like a miracle,”Jennifer Little, Jennifer’s mother, said it. WGHP-TV.
Her father was more temperate.
“It’s not an overnight miracle, though. It’s been going on for almost five years,”Chris Little explained to the station. “Especially considering the fact that most people can do something like this for about two years, and then they run out of steam, run out of money, run out of hope.”
Caitlin’s parents credit Caitlin with her ability and personality to thrive and survive.
According to her father, the teen recently graduated high school and has determination as well as a positive attitude.
“And trust,”Her mother also added. “She had to have trust in us to continue fighting and seeking. It’s a much harder battle if the person that is injured that you’re trying to bring out of this, if they’re not willing to do it with you, it’s almost impossible.”
They said that the Littles had seen 70 of the country’s top neurologists and visited 70 physicians. They were eventually able help. Caitlin even managed to recall past events.
“The first time I recognized without question that she was remembering things was when I got home from work, and she was able to recount for me something that happened at least an hour and a half earlier about two kittens,”Her father stated it. “And of the five kittens, she was able to point out which two it happened to, which one got the worst of it, and then the prognosis for the one that got the worst of it.”
Caitlin has continued to run, when she is physically up for it, and her family thinks that exercise and remembering a race route have helped increase her capacity to remember.
“I kept praying and asking for strength and endurance,”Caitlin spoke out after a race.