Story out of Lawrence Lake Provincial Park, Alberta:
When she heard the tree crack, Jessica Dicks knew her kids were in danger.
She dove for the tent where they were playing, racing a 10-metre tree toppling toward them.
"I remember running for the tent and then that's it — blank," said Dicks, 27. "Then the tree hit me, and it crushed me."
Her family - including her daughters, aged six, four, and 10 months, was on a camping trip on July 3 at Lawrence Lake Provincial Park, two hours north of Edmonton.
Three weeks after that day in the campground, where Dicks used her body to deflect the tree away from the tent, she finally woke up from a medically induced coma at the University of Alberta Hospital. She had 20 staples in her head and broken teeth. Rods and screws installed surgically in her back helped alleviate the pain.
She suffered a collapsed lung and broken ribs. A crushed T5 vertebra left her paralyzed from the chest down. Her doctor told her she'll never walk again.
As a roofer, Dicks made her living by climbing ladders and hauling heavy bundles onto rooftops. She worked for her spouse, an independent contractor. Because he's been by her side since the accident, they have no money coming in.
Dicks' uncle has set up a crowdfunding campaign. Monty Major doesn't want the niece he thinks of as his own daughter to worry about money on top of everything else. Cont.
Story from - CBC News
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