This Winnipeg family was told their loved one was dying, but it wasn't her in hospital

When Bianca Beauregard got a call last Friday that her sister was in a Winnipeg hospital following an overdose and wasn’t expected to survive, she says she was hysterical. 

But hours later, after family members — including another of the woman’s sisters and the woman’s 12-year-old daughter — visited Health Sciences Centre to say goodbye, they discovered the woman on life support there wasn’t their loved one. 

“My sister, she was saying goodbye and my family was in there doing a prayer, and she went to go hold my sister’s hand and [the woman] had none of the same tattoos that my sister had,” said Beauregard, who lives