“My life got reduced down to the 2 most important things, and we're so fortunate, I'm so fortunate”

SURVIVOR STORY: Mom holds baby during WA landslide
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SEATTLE (CNN) — We’re hearing for the first time from the mother who held onto her son as last month's landslide in Washington State wiped out her home and her whole community.
Ask Amanda Skorjanc how she's doing, it's one question she'll never take lightly.
“I thought I wasn't going to make it, so I'm feeling good,” Skorjanc told CNN affiliate KING-TV.
Good, despite crushing injuries. Her legs, in casts. Her arms in a sling. Her bloodshot eye. But they can only tell part of the story. On March 22nd, Amanda and Duke were home. Her partner, Ty, Duke's dad, had just left for the hardware store.
“And then I looked out our front door, it was like a movie, houses were exploding. And the next thing I see is our neighbor's chimney coming into the front door. And I turned and held Duke and I did not let him go,” Amanda said.
Duke and Amanda would literally ride out the slide. It would carry them 600 feet before the earth beneath them would finally stop moving. Baby Duke was still in her arms.
“He was dirty and a little blue and I thought I was losing him so I would give him little...rubs, and I would pat on his chest and I would say stay with me bud, and I would ask God to not take him in front of me,”
Amanda heard someone screaming, a passerby, is anybody out there, the voice called.
“I was just the right guy there at the right time,” Cody Wesson explained.
Cody was the first to hear Amanda and Duke.
“As soon as I heard that voice I knew that he was going to be OK,” she said.
Cody took Duke from her arms and rescuers took out a chain saw to free Amanda from the debris, including the couch and recliner she credits for cushioning their ride.
“I know that God was with us because as it was going I cried out to him, I said please save us,” Amanda said.
Baby Duke is now recovering at Seattle Children's Hospital. He is best medicine for his mom.
“He's my motivation. Every time I get an update on him, it motivates me even more, to do my physical therapy no matter how much it hurts,” Amanda said.
Surrounded by cards and letters from around the world, as much as this family has lost, they know they still have what matters most.
“My life got reduced down to the 2 most important things, and we're so fortunate, I'm so fortunate,” said Ty Suddarth, who is Amanda’s partner and Duke’s father.
“We will pay it forward for the rest of our life,” Amanda explained.