9-year-old Anaiah and 5-year-old Camry, who share a close bond as sisters, were crossing the street when a truck came barreling down the road. That's when Anaiah made the quick decision: She pushed her little sister out of the way and took the hit that would change her life.
"Camry was too young to be hit like this, and if she got hit she wouldn’t hardly be alive. She would be probably gone forever," said the heroic Anaiah.
After being hit, Anaiah was unconscious. Her mother ran to her side, but it was with the help of bus driver (like bus driver Darnell Barton who saved a woman on the ledge of a bridge) Loretta Berryman, that Anaiah is alive today.
“When I got to her, she wasn’t breathing,” Taylor said. “She didn’t have a pulse or anything, so I was screaming, calling for help and asking anybody just to call the ambulance," said her mother, Andrea. Loretta saw Anaiah lying on the ground, so she ran out of her bus and began CPR.
“I instructed her mom to hold her head while I gave mouth-to-mouth, chest compressions,” Loretta said. “As she took a breath, my first thing was, ‘Thank God.’"
Although, Anaiah, who lost a leg and a kidney to save her sister, doesn't think what she did was that big of a deal, it was just what big sisters do for their little sisters. “I love her so much.”
“Anaiah has a really, really big heart,” says Andrea. “She would have done it for someone else. But for her sister, she loved her so much she just couldn’t imagine life without her and for that, I will forever be grateful to her.”
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