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I was preparing for the birth of my son via C-Section as my daughter was born the same way two years before that. Prior to the 8 a.m. scheduled delivery, I started to have contractions so they wheeled me into surgery right away. In the 80's, it was still assumed to be dangerous to have normal birth after a C-section.
On that day 18 years ago, just as we reached a grassy area between the hospital and the parking deck, a torrent of tears gushed out of me like a sea of pent up emotion which flowed for several minutes, punctuated by shortness of breath, sad noises, searing emotional pain, helpless, hopeless. My dad stood nearby stoic, dignified and calm as always, but I knew a similar emotional tsunami had been unleashed inside him. He stood and let me get the first waves of despair out so that I could drive us home.
It is March 25, 2002. I am being prepped for surgery. After the nurses put in my IV's in both arms, I remember them asking me to count backwards from 10. I don't think that I made it to 5. I'm not sure how long afterwards, I was outside my body; I remember seeing my body on the operating table.
My experience occurred when I was anaesthetised for a caesarian section and giving birth to my first child. I remember being in a very peaceful, calm, and dark space and aware that I was 'floating' away from my body. I can only describe it as going away at a 45 degree angle but more like moving into a dimension unlike any in our 3 dimensional world.
It was raining hard when I pulled out from a stop sign in my Dad's Mustang on my way to an evening ballet class. I was broadsided by a Lincoln Continental estimated to be going between 60-70mph, spun & hit a parked vehicle, spun again & hit the original vehicle (this is as was reported).
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