“
I am broken, a part of me is missing
”.
Jayme Erickson, Canadian paramedic experienced a real tragedy on November 15, 2022, as reported by
The Guardian
.
The disfigured victim of a road accident that she had struggled to save for half an hour, and who had finally succumbed to her injuries, turned out to be her daughter.
When she arrived at the scene of the accident, an icy section of the Alberta highway on November 15, Jayme Erickson immediately attended to a teenage girl with severe injuries to her body.
The girl was in the car with a friend.
The latter had lost control of her vehicle, which had been hit by an oncoming truck.
The driver survived.
The disfigured victim was his daughter
Jayme Erickson took half an hour to extract the young girl from the vehicle, and stayed with her until a helicopter arrived to transport the victim to a nearby hospital in Clagary.
At the end of her shift, the paramedic was greeted at her home by police officers who told her that Montana, her 17-year-old daughter, had been the victim of an accident.
Jayme immediately understood that it was the victim of his own intervention.
The police added that given the teenager's injuries, she was finally unplugged.
“
The badly injured patient I had just treated was my own flesh and blood.
My only child.
My mini me.
My daughter, Montana
,” she wrote to family and friends in a Facebook post.
“
Although I am grateful for the 17 years I spent with her, I am broken and I have questions.
What would have become of you, my little girl?
Who would you have been?
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The young girl made a "
last gift
" by donating her organs, "
two of which have saved lives
," added her mother.
“
We know that's what she would have wanted, and we are so proud of her, and we will miss her dearly.
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