LWM Staff Writers
As A Healthy 28-Year-Old, I Never Thought I Would Fall Victim To Cardiac Arrest
“Doctors informed my family they were unsure if I would regain normal functioning, as I had possibly lost too much oxygen to the brain.”
‘I shouted, ‘Help my mom! She can’t breathe!’ I saw a priest coming toward me, this was either a dream or we were dead.’
“I remember whispering, ‘Don’t leave me.’ She barely whispered in Vietnamese, ‘I can’t breathe.'”
My Baby Never Came Home With Me
“One week after we lost our daughter, we walked in the door to our apartment.”
‘When I was by myself, so deep in the woods the trail was invisible, I considered turning back.’ Woman eloquently describes her journey with running
“If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.”
– John Bingham
‘I’m not pregnant. Yes, that’s an ultrasound, with my name, a recent date, but I am not pregnant…well, not anymore.’
“Why is my body not strong enough? What is wrong with me? What am I doing wrong? Why is this happening to me? What if I can’t have anymore kids, will my husband leave me?”
I Used To Hate Being Called A Cancer Survivor
“Until I realized it wasn’t about me.”
Marriage Is An ALL IN Commitment
“It’s not a ‘I’ll be nice when he’s nice’ thing.”
‘The past few years have included countless doctors appointments, medications, phone calls, specialists, 2 failed IUIs, and dozens of negative pregnancy tests.’
“To all the future moms out there – I see you, and others see you. We know your pain, and we feel your hope. Don’t give up.”
‘We were 27, married for four years, and told we would never be able to get pregnant on our own.’
“As we were preparing to leave he told us to hold on a minute. Silence. Excuse me? Did I just hear you correctly? Say that again please…”
‘How an Army blanket uncovered the truth about my dad’
“I promised myself that if I made it home alive, I’d never sleep on the ground again.”