As he crouched over her stricken body, a terrified Marc Lincoln entertained his worst nightmare of losing his 13-year-old daughter.
Convulsing due to a seizure and her eyes rolling back, Kayla had just crashed off her bike after hitting a barrier on a slipway off the dike near the Olympic oval.
Moments earlier, Lincoln and his daughter had been enjoying their regular bike ride along the dike, a route he takes every day, cycling to work from their Terra Nova home to Vancouver.
In a split second, Kayla decided to take a slightly alternate route from her father. It was then he heard the sickening sound of something going badly wrong.
I didnt see it happen, but I heard the crash and I raced over to see what happened, recalled Lincoln of the incident last Sunday afternoon.
She had hit one of those barriers to stop cars getting onto the dyke and she was lying flat on the ground, no screams or cries, nothing.
She went into a seizure right there. It was the darkest moment of my life, as I had no idea what was happening.
I thought something terrible was happening to her brain. Her eyes were rolling back and she seemed to be slipping in and out of consciousness. There was a moment I thought she was dying, I really did.
Trying to hold things together, Lincoln spotted a woman nearby and shouted to her to call 911. She relayed Kaylas condition to the operator while Lincoln tended to his injured daughter.
Then this gentleman appeared out of nowhere and sat next to Kayla, he said.
He took her pulse and started to get into First Aid. I know First Aid, but it seemed to pass me by at that moment, whereas this man didnt seem to be fazed by anything and just kept talking to her.
Unconscious by now, a desperate Lincoln said he felt his daughter drifting away from me, I was terrified.
A few minutes later, fire-rescue and then paramedics arrived to tend to Kayla.
They were all amazing, I cant thank them enough, said Lincoln. My wife arrived as well and she went with Kayla to hospital.
The firefighters even offered to take the bikes to their firehall and I could pick them up there later. They said not to worry about anything else apart from my daughter.
When Kayla was safely in hospital, a severe concussion diagnosed, Lincoln examined her bike helmet. It was completely cracked down one side.
The doctors reckon it saved her life, said Lincoln.
If theres a lesson there for other kids and for cyclists, this is it.
As for the man and woman who helped Lincoln in his moment of need two people he refers to as his angels he would love to meet them and thank them properly.
I feel bad, because I think, because of my state of mind, I was a bit short with the woman who was on the phone to 911. She was relaying questions from the operator, but I just wanted help to get here fast, he said.
Both of them, the man and the woman, then disappeared out of my life. I would love to let them know how indebted I am to them.
We need more people like them out there and I`d like to give them both a hug.
After going through a CT scan, Kayla, a Burnett secondary student, got the all-clear after two nights in hospital.
She only recalls being distracted for a second as she glided off the dikes slipway. She`s fine now, but still a bit groggy and has an arm in a cast for a suspected fracture, said Lincoln.
