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She put on her uniform and placed Keiran in the family’s Jeep and, before driving to Canadian Forces Base Kingston she was going to drop him off at her in-laws’ house.

As she merged from the on-ramp onto Highway 401, her Jeep spun on ice and slammed into the road’s concrete median.

As she waited for assistance, she bundled Keiran up and was carrying him to the shoulder of the highway, she previously told the Post.

“I stepped down into the ditch and then we were hit broadside right out of nowhere,” she said.

A truck hit the pair, sending her son flying onto the highway and pulling her down under its undercarriage. Her right leg was torn off. She had 21 additional fractures but the worst blow she learned after waking up in hospital: Keiran had been killed.

In the time since, she adapted to life as an above-knee amputee. She returned to work and completed a second tour of duty in Afghanistan — the first female soldier to serve in a warzone with a prosthetic leg.

This is not the end of the battle

Along the way, she fought for military benefits and disability benefits to cover her treatments and prosthetics. After years of grievances, appeals and litigation, her case was taken to the Federal Court of Appeal seeking to overturn the decision that she was not on duty at the time of the crash, reducing the amount she was eligible for.

The court dismissed her appeal this week.

The judges ruled the military’s decision “falls within the legally and factually defensible range of possible, acceptable outcomes,” which meets the legal test used of a decision being reasonable rather necessarily being correct.