A Canadian paramedic who unknowingly handled her personal daughter after a deadly car crash brushed away tears as she remembered an exquisite woman who fought till the top.
Jayme Erickson was known as to the crash north of Calgary on Nov. 15 and sat with a critically injured woman who was extricated from the automobile and brought to hospital, the place she died. She was unrecognizable due to accidents.
It wasn’t till Erickson bought house on the finish of the day that she was met by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers, who instructed her the affected person was her 17-year-old daughter, Montana.
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Erickson shared her grief with reporters late Tuesday, describing her daughter as a hit at all the pieces she set her thoughts to, an avid swimmer who had aspirations of turning into a lawyer.
“She was a fighter and she fought until the day that she died and she was beautiful. She was so beautiful. If she ever put an effort into anything she would always succeed at it,” mentioned Erickson at an Airdrie firehall with household, paramedics, law enforcement officials and firefighters standing behind her in a present of assist.
Richard Reed, a buddy and flight paramedic, broke down quite a lot of instances as he recounted Erickson attending the scene the place a automobile had misplaced management and was struck by an oncoming truck.
Reed mentioned the motive force was capable of get out of the automobile however the feminine passenger was trapped with severe accidents. Erickson was the primary particular person on the scene. He mentioned Erickson knew the woman was in hassle and sat there till she was extricated and transported to hospital by air ambulance, nonetheless unaware of who it was.
“On her way back she expressed her grief and frustration to her partner, knowing that later a family would likely lose their daughter, sister and grandchild. A short time after arriving home, there was a knock on the door. It was the RCMP,” Reed mentioned.
“On entering the room, to her horror, she found the girl that she had sat with in the back of the crumpled vehicle keeping alive, so the family could say goodbye, and due to the extent of her injuries was unrecognizable, was Jayme’s own daughter,” he added. “Jayme unknowingly was keeping her own daughter alive.”
In an emotional Facebook put up final week, Jayme Erickson wrote: “My worst nightmare as a paramedic has come true.”
“The critically injured patient I had just attended to, was my own flesh and blood,” she wrote. “My only child. My mini-me. My daughter, Montana. Her injures were so horrific I did not even recognize her.”
“Today we officially said goodbye to my little girl,” she wrote. “I cannot help but be angry for the short amount of time I was given with her. 17 years was not long enough.”