In 2014, I laid in a hospital bed, looking at myself in the mirror across the room. I didn't recognize the paper-white face that looked back at me, the woman in the hospital gown who could barely lift her head, the arm that had an IV attached to it, receiving a life-saving blood transfusion.The room was familiar — I had been in such a room before — when my oldest two children were born. But this time was different — there was so much blood lost and an emergency surgery. The baby I had been [...]
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