LWM Staff Writers
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LWM Staff Writers
“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 remember whispering, ‘Don’t leave me.’ She barely whispered in Vietnamese, ‘I can’t breathe.'”
“One week after we lost our daughter, we walked in the door to our apartment.”
“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
“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?”
“Until I realized it wasn’t about me.”
“It’s not a ‘I’ll be nice when he’s nice’ thing.”
“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.”
“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…”
“I promised myself that if I made it home alive, I’d never sleep on the ground again.”