Learning about the loss of a relative or loved one can be terrifying. But, the scenario becomes even more terrible when they die in front of one’s eyes. A paramedic in Canada recently went through this horror when her kid died in her arms while she was attempting to save her life. The paramedic was just doing her job, not realizing that the person she was attempting to resuscitate was her own daughter.
She discovered this information during the post-mortem examination. Montana Erickson, 17, of British Columbia, and her friend were killed in an automobile accident after losing control of their vehicle and crashing into an oncoming truck near Calgary. The teen’s injuries were so gruesome that her own mother couldn’t recognize her as she lay trapped inside her car.
It’s understandable that the life of a paramedic isn’t full of sunshine and daisies. People are exposed to death on a daily basis, but what would be the reaction of a lady who witnessed someone die and then returned home to discover that it was her own daughter who had died? The bereaved mother then wrote her heartbroken heart in a Facebook post.
A paramedic discovers that the girl she airlifted from a car accident was her daughter.
“The gravely injured patient I had just treated to was my own flesh and blood,” she wrote. My only child is a miniature version of myself. Montana, my daughter.” The adolescent and her companion were driving on a highway in northern Alberta when she lost control of the vehicle on an icy section of road. They were then hit by an oncoming truck. The first paramedic on the site was Jayme Erickson.
She discovered a girl stuck in the passenger seat. The injuries were so severe and certainly lethal that Jayme could only treat the girl with emergency care until an aircraft arrived to transport the victim to Calgary.
“While I am thankful for the 17 years I enjoyed with her, I am shattered and left wondering,” the paramedic wrote in her Facebook post. What would you have been, my little girl? What kind of person would you have been? I’ll never see you graduate and walk across the stage again, I’ll never see you marry, and I’ll never know who you would have been. “I adore you more than anything else in the world.”
Later, she talked about her loss in an Airdrie Firehall on November 22nd, where she mentioned, “She was a fighter and she fought till the day that she died and she was beautiful. She was stunning. She was usually successful when she put effort into something. Everyone who knew Montana would describe her as a firebrand. If you were her friend, she loved you fiercely. She would love you to the ends of the earth and back, and she would go to any length for you. She was a fighter who fought right up till the end. She was stunning, she was stunning. We are very delighted to hear that our darling girl is living on via others. She helped others in the aftermath of the catastrophe. We know she would have wanted it, and we are very proud of her.”
Jayme wrote an impassioned Facebook message.
One would get shivers if they read the paramedic’s Facebook post “The gravely injured patient I’d just treated was my own flesh and blood. We are devastated and overwhelmed by grief. The pain I’m experiencing is unlike any other I’ve ever experienced; it’s indescribable. My worst paramedic dread has come true. I will treasure the memories we created and the time we spent together […] I am crushed […] broken. I’m missing a piece of myself […] I was left to pick up the pieces and asked to continue.” The concluding words of the Facebook post centered on Cody Johnson’s ‘Til You Can’ lyrics, “Love with all your heart. Keep them near to you. Create some recollections. ‘If you’re going to love someone, love them as long and as hard as you can… until you can’t.’
Richard Reed, a fellow paramedic, was beside Jayme while she attempted to save her daughter. During the next interview with the reporters, he broke down quite a few times when describing the entire experience. “On entering the room, to her astonishment, she saw the girl who she had sat within the back of the crumpled truck keeping alive, so the family could say farewell, and due to the level of her injuries was unrecognizable, was Jayme’s own daughter,” Reed said of the mother’s suffering. Jayme was unintentionally saving her own daughter’s life.”
