A Canadian paramedic who unknowingly treated her own daughter after a fatal car accident, told the sad story to the media, after losing her daughter who she fought to the end.
Jayme Erickson was called to the crash north of Calgary on 23 November and sat with a seriously injured girl who was removed from the car and taken to the hospital, where she later died; the injured young woman was unrecognizable due to her injuries.
It was not until Erickson got home at the end of the day that Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers met her and told her that the patient was his daughter of 23 years, Montana.
Erickson shared his grief with reporters Tuesday night, describing his daughter as a success at everything she set her mind to, an avid swimmer who she aspired to become a lawyer.
“She was a fighter and she fought until the day she died and she was beautiful. She was so beautiful. If she ever put effort into something, she always got it done,” Erickson said in an Airdrie firehouse with family members, paramedics, police officers and firefighters trailing behind her in a show of support.
“On the way back, he expressed his pain and frustration to his partner, knowing that later on a family would probably lose their daughter, sister and granddaughter. Shortly after arriving home, there was a knock on the door. It was the RCMP,” Reed said, according to AP.
“Upon entering the room, to his horror, he found the girl with whom he had sat in the back of the damaged vehicle holding alive, so the family could say goodbye, and due to the extent of her injuries she was unrecognizable, she was Jayme’s own daughter,” he added.
Jayme was unknowingly keeping her own daughter alive.
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