WASHINGTON (TND) — An emergency responder that treated a girl who was severely hurt in a crash said she later learned the victim was her 17-year-old daughter, who died from her injuries.
Jayme Erickson, a paramedic whose Facebook profile notes she lives in Canada, didn't recognize her child due to her injuries.
Erickson shared an emotional account of the ordeal on social media. She also spoke to the media at a news conference.
Erickson said her "worst nightmare as a paramedic" came true on November 15. She said she and her partner were dispatched to a crash north of Calgary around 4:30 p.m.
"Upon arrival we found two patients with injuries, the passenger being trapped and critically injured," Erickson wrote. "I sat in the car and tended to the critically injured patient, doing whatever I could while fire extricated her. STARS air ambulance took over patient care once we got the patient out and flew her to (an area hospital)."
Erickson said her shift ended, so she went home. It was there she learned the harrowing news.
She said Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers told her her daughter was seriously hurt in a car crash.
Erickson said her daughter later died.
Erickson said her daughter was successful at everything she set her mind to and had hoped to become a lawyer someday.
She donated her organs, with two proving to be life-saving for others.
Erickson also shared several photos of her daughter, as well as
an obituary, which notes that Montana Dobry was "an avid and dedicated swimmer until the age of sixteen." She qualified for the Alberta Summer Games in 2018 and earned five medals.
The obituary notes that Montana "touched many lives" and she was described as a "little firecracker," who "will live on in the memories we have of her."
Erickson said while she is grateful for the 17 years she had with her daughter, she is heartbroken.
"I am shattered and left wondering. What would you have become my baby girl? Who would you have been?" Erickson wrote. "I will never see you graduate and walk across the stage, I will never see you get married, I will never know who you would have been. I love you more than anything in this world (yes, including the goats my girl!). I will cherish the memories we made and the time we had together. I am shattered. I am broken. I am missing a piece of me. I am left to pick up the pieces and expected to carry on."
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