“I was vomiting 80 times a day. I lost a devastating 36% of my body weight, 58 pounds. I knew what I was dealing with wasn’t just ‘morning sickness.’ I was fighting for me and my daughter’s life.”
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“I was vomiting 80 times a day. I lost a devastating 36% of my body weight, 58 pounds. I knew what I was dealing with wasn’t just ‘morning sickness.’ I was fighting for me and my daughter’s life.”
“For giving my son a warm place to sleep, for allowing my body to stretch enough to create my beautiful son, for creating milk for him to eat.”
“For five days, I tried to drive, take care of my kids, and go about life, but I looked like I’d had a few too many cocktails. I couldn’t walk in a straight line, and my speech was very slurred, but they discharged me.”
“We are all a work in progress.”
“An elderly lady responded. She DEMANDED to know why a stranger was knocking on her window. Imagine her shock to discover her birth granddaughter, born two decades earlier, was living in Canada!”
“I’d quit for 2 weeks and say, ‘See, I don’t have a problem! I think you misunderstood.’ I strolled up to the cottage and fixed a Bloody Mary, a really GOOD one.”
“’They’ll never do that in the US, right?’ I was amazed it was even a possibility. When I got off the phone, I had to go to the bathroom and wipe all the tears away. My dream was becoming reality.”
“A body which can produce a human being, make milk, and function daily is a HUGE blessing. There’s no need to place a toxic foreign object inside of it.”
“I regained enough strength to walk down the aisle and marry my best friend. ‘For better or worse’ took on a whole new meaning.”
“I thought it was weak to make excuses over something so minor, after everything I’d been through. In reality, ‘I’ was the weak one.”