Canadian Jayme Erickson rushed to an accident in the province of Alberta last week as a paramedic. A car with two young women on board collided with a truck. The driver was able to free himself from the car, but the passenger (17) was trapped, the Guardian reports.
The teenager was so badly injured in the accident that Erickson didn’t realize for half an hour who she was trying to free: her own daughter. When the woman was rescued from the wreckage, the Canadian remained by the side of the injured until she was flown by plane to the nearest hospital in Calgary.
After the operation, she told her husband how sad she was because the girl would probably not survive and a family would lose their daughter. She still didn’t know that the victim of the accident was her own daughter. When the paramedic came home, the police called her and broke the news: her child died in a car accident. Only then did she realize who she had been caring for: her daughter Montana.
“What would have become of you, my little girl?”
For the mother, a world collapsed: “The seriously injured patient I had just cared for was my own flesh and blood. My only child,” she wrote on Facebook. She hadn’t recognized her daughter because she was so badly injured.
Her worst nightmare as a paramedic has come true. She was infinitely sad and angry that her daughter was taken so early. ‘What would have become of you, my little girl? who would you have been I’ll never see you graduate and walk the stage, I’ll never see you get married, I’ll never know who you would’ve been.”
She is incredibly proud of her daughter. Especially since she was an organ donor. Her death saved two other people. “We are so happy that our little girl is alive thanks to others and that she was able to save other people’s lives after this tragedy.” (lrc)