Young crash victim suffers setback

In spite of a fever spiking over 105 degrees for nearly a week now, Summer Moll still manages that smile, that incredible will to keep coming back no matter what. The 5-year-old went through painful rehab to learn to walk again after multiple surgeries on broken arms and legs — injuries she suffered in a September head-on crash that killed her mother. Twice now, Summer has celebrated homecomings, only to see her hopes dashed by yet another infection after painful and repeated skin grafts. The emotional toll was showing Monday morning during a FOX 13 interview with Summer’s grandmother outside Tampa General Hospital. “Summer doesn’t deserve this,” Tammy Rosian said, her eyes welling with tears. “It’s been nine months of torture for her, and it’s not good, she doesn’t deserve this. Every time something starts going good, we get something, a step back. It’s not fair.” Summer’s

new fever forced her to miss last week’s service-dog wedding at TGH — dogs the family say Summer has leaned on through all the needles and the pain. “She’s a nutcase right now,” Rosian continued. “A doctor walks in, a nurse walks in, the girl that takes the vitals, the tech — she screams because she thinks they’re coming to poke her again.” Yet still, there’s Summer’s inescapable smile, no matter how bad it gets. But until the test results are in no one will know how long Summer will have to stay at TGH. The family is hoping she’ll be well enough for a July event in Chicago, her mother’s hometown, to raise money for Mothers Against Drunk Driving. Police say the Crosstown crash was the result of a wrong-way drunk driver.

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