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Sometimes an experience can be so intense and so profound that it changes your entire life...
I had been in labor for my 3rd child, for about 16 hours...
I was with my friends from taekwondo at the pool...
I am a student in France...
I knew I was dying and there was nothing to stop it...
I had severe eclampsia...
I was unconscious from my fall and striking my head...
My family went to a city pool and I'm almost sure it was the 4th of July...
I was out at a bar-restaurant with a friend to celebrate Women's Day...
One day in July, I felt ill with cramps and could not walk or urinate...
It was 4 am and I had just given birth to my fifth child but the placenta was stuck...
It was late September in 1997...
