SEATTLE — A young mother who said she held on tight to her baby as they survived the Oso mudslide has been discharged from Harborview Medical Center in Seattle.
Hospital spokeswoman Susan Gregg said Friday that Amanda Skorjanc, 25, has been transferred to another facility for inpatient rehabilitation. The young woman had two broken legs and a broken arm. She had half a dozen surgeries.
Her 5-month-old son, Duke Suddarth, was discharged Wednesday from Children’s Hospital in Seattle.
When the March 22 mudslide hit her home, Skorjanc said, she and Duke were trapped in a pocket formed by her broken couch and pieces of her roof. He was the first survivor to be airlifted from the slide. Rescuers then cut Skorjanc out of the rubble.
Her attending physician, Dr. Daphne Beingessner, said Skorjanc’s ordeal was “one of the worst things I’ve seen someone go through. She will take a long time to recover from the emotional scars.”
