It’s been more than a week since UAlbany freshman Alexa Kropf was hit and critically injured by a dirt bike.

“As much as she’s making positive strides to getting better, there’s that other side of it that nobody else sees when you sit bedside,” said her father, Jim Kropf. “You see the side of her head shaved. You see the 50 staples that are now in her head because of the two brain surgeries that she had to have.”

“To sit at a child’s bedside, looking at the pain that they’re in, struggling sometimes just to get a simple cough out and everything’s hurting them. You just want to take away all their pain. I wish this on no one.”

These have been heartbreaking, frustrating days for the family of the 19-year-old from Long Island.

“She’s still not verbal. Maybe a slight nod. She grabs your hand slightly with just one hand. The other arm isn’t working so well right now. The pin in her pelvis. She’s in a lot of pain. She’s still sedated. She is breathing on her own. But she has a very, very long road ahead of her,” said Jim Kropf.

On a Friday night, April 26, Alexa Kropf was walking with two friends on Hudson Avenue in Albany, when she was hit by a dirt bike.

The friends describe what happened when they ran to her.

“She got hit and then I ran up to her and held her in my arms and she started seizing,” said Elizabeth. “The guy fell off his bike and I yelled at him. I was like– you can’t leave, you can’t leave her here! And he just looked at me, flipped me off, and he just kept going.”

“I ran up to her to check on her, to see what state she was in and the next thing I know the guy fell off his bike, he got up, turned around, gave us the middle finger and then left,” said Hunter. “We told him to stop, you can’t leave, and he had no regard for that and just left.”

“This is the type of person that we’re dealing with, right? Just no remorse for human life,” said Alexa’s father Jim. “It’s awful that these people are out there and unfortunately I pray that it doesn’t happen again and somebody else has to go through something like this, so I really hope that this coward of an individual is taken off the streets.”

Security video shows bikes on nearby Ontario Friday night.

Just before the crash, one went the wrong way on the one-way street, up towards Hudson, where the crash happened.

“We’re huge supporters of law enforcement and we know that, we’re confident that they’re doing everything that they need to do to hopefully catch the person who did this,” said Kropf.

He is full of praise for Albany Med, and the Ronald McDonald House.

A GoFundMe has raised more than $95,000.

“The support, we are beyond overwhelmed from the outpouring of love and support from friends, family, people we don’t even know,” said Kropf. “It’s people reaching out to us, telling us stories and just keeping our hopes up, keeping things positive, as positive as they can.”

He was overcome when talking about Alexa and her future.

“When you’re around her, she lifts your spirits. Just that kind of kid, right. We all love her. She’s going to get there. She’s going to get there. We’re going to get her home,” said Kropf, his voice breaking with emotion. “It’s not going to be anytime soon, but we’re going to get her home. She coming back home with us.”