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It was a Saturday weeks before Thanksgiving, 2001...
I have never been sick in 52 years...
I had always been fearful of storms, especially severe ones, as I grew up watching my mother fear them...
As usual, I had to have another session of chemo, horrible chemo...
I remember being taken into the operating room for a cesarean section but remember nothing after being given medication...
My third child was coming fast and then something went wrong...
After the impact, I was thrown toward the asphalt...
I can remember my evening being uneventful and going to bed at the same time as my husband...
I recall being wheeled into an operating room for a double hernia operation...
The first thing I noticed was a sense of pure calm and peace...
I was suffering from severe clinical depression and believed I was both unwanted and unloved...
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It was an uncommonly hot and humid spring day...
