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Tragedy in CanadaParamedic helps dying woman (17) without realizing that it is her daughter
A Canadian paramedic was the first responder to a serious car accident north of Calgary. It was only later that she found out that her daughter was in the vehicle.
“My worst nightmare came true,” she says.
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Because the 17-year-old who was killed in an accident and who supported her until she was transported to the hospital …
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“No one wants to go through something like that,” Jayme Erickson said tearfully at a press conference in Airdrie, Alberta, Canada. Her worst nightmare had come true. “I just want my baby girl not to be forgotten.”
The paramedic was the first responder to a serious car accident north of Calgary in which a young woman was trapped in one of the two cars involved and seriously injured. The driver lost control of the car, which then crashed into an oncoming truck. The driver was able to climb out of the wreck himself, but the 17-year-old in the passenger seat had to be cut out. Erickson tended to the girl while she was being rescued. The young woman was later taken to the hospital, where she succumbed to her injuries.
As Erickson’s colleague Richard Reed explains, the paramedic expressed her dismay on the way back from the operation. “She said it was sad and frustrating that another family had lost a daughter, sister and granddaughter.”
Then Erickson’s shift was over and she went home. Minutes later there was a knock on her door – and she learned from the police that the young woman who had died was her own daughter, Montana. She had tended to the dying girl without realizing it.
“Although I’m grateful for the 17 years that I got to spend with her, I’m shattered and I ask myself: What would have become of you, my little girl? Who would you have been?” Erickson later wrote in a moving post on Facebook. “My pain is indescribable.”
Montana was a “firecracker”, an open and lively personality. She was an avid competitive swimmer and wanted to study law, reports CBC. As a small consolation, the mother is left with the fact that Montana was able to save the lives of two people with her organ donation.
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