>> reporter: cheerleading coach, megan toothman, who had gone to the concert with 10-year-old jordan paulettehodist hospital. jordan was relieved to finally hear some news about her friend. >> they found megan and that's when i was like, okay, i'm able to go to sleep, everything's going to be all right. >> reporter: but jordan didn't realize that megan was actually fighting for her life. megan's mother, melissa, learned that, too, when she arrived at the hospital from cincinnati. >> one of the doctors spent a great deal of time tell willing bust all her injuries. >> reporter: megan had suffered fractured vertebrae, internal organ damage and like andrea valinga, brain injury. >> i told them it wasn't her at first. >> you couldn't even recognize her as her own mother? >> no, not at firster. not when i first walked in the room. >> were you able to hold her hand? >> yes. >> talk to her? >> yes. yes. >> what did you say to her? >> i just told her that mommy was here. >> reporter: megan, like andrea, had emergency surgery that night. and now the two lay in hospital beds down the hall from one anoth