Paramedic Jayme Erickson, a resident of Alberta in western Canada, experienced a tragedy in two acts on November 15. In the first place, and despite all her efforts, the lifeguard could not save the adolescent victim of a traffic accident in which she was involved.
Above all, he later learned that the young woman who was taken away at the age of 17 was his: the crash had disfigured her to the point of leaving her unrecognizable, says the Guardian.
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In mid-November, parts of the Alberta highway are frozen. It is one of them who is at the origin of the drama. Called to the scene, Jayme Ericksson can only see the severity of the injuries suffered by the teenager in front of her. A seriousness that leaves no doubt about the dramatic outcome that awaits him.
But Jayme Erickson does the impossible, spending thirty minutes getting the girl out, then staying by her side until she is flown to the Calgary hospital.
But it is at home after this service that the worst falls on the paramedic. The policemen come looking for her to tell her that her daughter, Montana, only 17 years old, has been the victim of a traffic accident. Jayme soon realizes that this is his own intervention. The police add that in view of the adolescent’s injuries, the Calgary caregivers judged that her condition was desperate and decided to disconnect her.
Montana and a friend of his age – at the wheel – had gone in the car to walk a dog, as the British newspaper still tells, when the driver lost control before the vehicle was hit by a truck. The driver was able to get out of the car, Montana was not.
“What would you have become?”
On the Saturday following the horror, Jayme Erickson posted a message on his Facebook account to warn those around him and pay tribute to his daughter: “We are overwhelmed with grief and absolutely destroyed. The pain I feel is like nothing I’ve ever known, It’s indescribable.” . My worst nightmare as a paramedic has come true.”
“The patient too injured to survive the one I had just intervened on was my flesh, my blood. My only daughter. My mini-me. My daughter, Montana. Her injuries were so horrible that I didn’t recognize her,” he continued.
“I can’t help but be angry at how little time I was given to spend with her. 17 years is not enough. Although I’m grateful for the 17 years I got to spend with her, I’m broken and alone with my questions. What’s wrong with you?” would you have become, my baby?, who would you have become?
“She was a fighter”
An expert swimmer, Montana was destined to study law. In any case, this is what emerges from the portrait of her that her family and some colleagues of her mother’s drew for the press, from her town of Airdrie, Alberta, on Tuesday. Jayme Erickson spoke again.
She painted her daughter’s personality: “If you were her friend, she loved you fiercely. Her love would have gone around the world and she would have done anything for you. She was a fighter. Defeated,” she said.
The image continued: “She was a fighter and she fought until her last day, and she was beautiful. So beautiful.”
The organs of the missing youths were transplanted without delay. And two of them saved their patient.
Source: BFM TV
