Posted on 03/24/2005 9:05:49 PM PST by TheWriterTX
In November of 2001, back before my new computer and lost password, I was simply "The Writer." I posted a vanity prayer request for my second child, my daughter Sky, who was born during an emergency c-section at just 32 weeks. Prayers came in from all over Free Republic, and my family was humbled by the support.
During the entire 40 minute ambulance ride to the hospital, we were not able to detect her heartbeat. Still, I pleaded with God to sustain her.
I experienced a 30% abruption and floated in and out of consciousness on the delivery table, my heart rate dipping dangerously. In my moments of consciousness, I prayed for God to sustain her.
We had no way of knowing if our beloved daughter would survive, if she would be disabled, if she would be technology-dependent. It didn't matter. I knew her little soul was still in there, fighting daily. I knew it as surely as I knew my name. I knew it, because every fiber in my being shouted it to me.
The first time I saw my daughter, she had a huge breathing apparatus over her face, needles and tubes sticking out of every limb, and was being fed through a tube in her stomach. I spent many hours at her side, conveying my love through song, words, touch, and, finally, miraculously, by feeding her. Just 12 days later, our darling child was home with us. She is now a bright, beautiful 3 year old, with gorgeous honey brown eyes, a chatty, friendly nature, who executed a forward roll and handstand at gymnastics on Tuesday.
Last summer, I discovered I was pregnant again. I knew within days that I was carrying a baby, that a little soul was nestled inside me. I knew it with every fiber of my being. I had to wait before it even showed on the pregnancy tests.
I also knew, 8 weeks later, when that little soul departed. I woke that morning with the knowledge that my child was no longer with me. I knew before the bleeding began two days later. I knew before the sonogram at the emergency room confirmed it.
Some folks like to dismiss a mother's instinct as tomfoolery, but I never have. Something within Terri is resonating a response within her mother. In my opinion, this is not "wishful thinking" on her mother's part, but some instinctual sense that Terri's soul is still in there, fighting daily.
I know if it was my daughter in there, and I felt that her soul was still present, I would move mountains to save her, too.
I know from whence I speak. My nephew, Eric, had a seriously underdeveloped cerebellum and lived for only 6 months; yet his life changed everyone who knew him and he most definitely fought daily to live.
Vanities don't seem to be rare around here anymore.
Yes, the four-letter answer.
God bless you.
Thankyou.
They are rare for me, SquirrelKing. The last one I posted was in 2001.
Thanks for sharing from your heart.
I understand the rarity of your post was the unique experiences you spoke of.
God Bless you and yours.
That was rude and insensitive.
All I can say is that after all of this get's to a conclusion(whatever that is) Mikey Boy Schivo will be a pariah and will NEVER be able to go ANYWHERE without someone wanting to SPIT on him!
That was beautiful.
Subject: This state-sponsored MURDER of Terri Schaivo must be STOPPED
From: My real name and address
Date: Thu, March 24, 2005 11:59 pm
To: president@whitehouse.gov -----------
Dear Mr. President:
I implore you to do what may be seemingly beyond what has heretofore been regarded as part of your presidential powers:
Please use your executive power to stop the state-sponsored MURDER of Terri Schaivo.
Millions of Americans cannot bear that our country has become a place where the state is killing its own innocent citizens.
If I were you, I would take the risk: go in with a SWAT team and take Terri to a safe hospital.
Regardless of what the courts say -- you and I know that it is wrong to deny her even a sip of water -- which, if she can swallow her own saliva (some reports are 2 liters a day), she can certainly handle.
You have the moral duty to make sure that either they attempt to feed Terri Schaivo, or they reinsert the feeding tube.
Denying her water and food is unconscionable, and it is on THIS ACCOUNT that I think you will be supported by the American people who recognize that depriving a human being of food and water is evil.
They won't even give her a sip of water, Mr. President!!!
I beg you -- you took a chance on Iraq and you were right. Please do it again.
Best regards,
We, ourselves, had very similar experiences. They change you. I no longer find many things funny or innocuous, having seen and gone through the things we have.
I was called to the college my son was attending, because he had collapsed and been taken to the local hospital. As I was driving through the night to get to where he was, just before dawn, I felt his soul brush over me as it left this life.
When I got to the hospital, despite best medical efforts, he had died. From that time and for the rest of my life, I no longer have any doubts that there is a life beyond this one, for which we prepare ourselves by how we live here. And I look forward to seeing again, all those who have preceded me.
Congressman Billybob
Perhaps you should not read the vanities that are clearly labeled.
That was rude, insensitive, but, you had to be first to reapond didn't you?
reapond = respond.
Rush did well touching on why so many people seem to side with Michael Schiavo and want to see Terri dead: They have "pulled the plug" on their own relatives, and are trying like crazy to tell themselves they didn't have selfish reasons for doing so; so they lash out.
However, the facts of the case now finally getting out, and Michael's overall behavior, aren't helping them much anymore.
I know what you know in paragraphs 6 and 7. Thanks for putting it in such lovely words. There is much knowledge and instinct beyond the ability of science or medicine to measure. God bless Terri and her courageous family. God will know what to do with M. Schiavo, Felos and Greer.
Meeting in Tampa Florida with Judge Whittemore is over.
I am so sorry to hear about the loss of your son. I know you will be reunited in the life to come, with God's love surrounding you.
what happened?
*bump* God bless you! Thank you for the expression of the sanctity and value of life, from a Mom's point of view.
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