Lester’s mom happy with Christmas blessings

On December 10 while training with her club Rigtech Sonics between Buenos Ayres and Erin in South Trinidad, Lester was going around a corner when a car coming from the opposite direction struck Lester and the cyclist was thrown off her bike. The driver of the vehicle stopped and assisted before a report was made at the Erin Police Station.

Lester, 19, received bruises to her face, neck and legs and had to undergo surgery for a dislocated hip.

Lester has been at the San Fernando General Hospital ever since but Lester’s mother Mary Layne is thankful for the gift of life. Yesterday Layne stated, “I just glad for the present of life.

Her friends coming (to the hospital) and bring whatever they have to bring for her. They trying to make Christmas as enjoyable for her in the hospital.” Lester is only consuming liquids and is expected to remain at hospital until the middle of January.

Layne, who plans to spend most of the four-day Christmas weekend with her daughter said Lester continues to improve.

“That young lady is going guns. God has been good to us.

She is talking and she calling me on the phone, sending messages from her friends phone to my phone. She is coming along quite nicely, still a little restless because she can’t move and she is a very active person so she is feeling confined.” As a junior cyclist Lester performed at a high level. At the 2015 Junior Pan American Cycling Championships in Mexico, Lester won gold in the women’s team sprint with Kollyn St George.

Another top performance came at the 2014 Junior Caribbean Cycling Championships in Suriname when Lester won silver behind fellow TT cyclist Teniel Campbell in the junior ladies road race.