37 Seconds Dying Revealed Heavens Help – Stephanie Arnold

What a blessing that G-d showed up and bestowed a miracle upon our family. Friends of mine tried to lighten the mood by telling jokes, but I could see the fear behind their eyes as they looked at me in disbelief, amazed that I actually pulled through. Northwestern is a teaching hospital, so I had to get used to groups from different departments like cardiology, nephrology, pulmonology, and gynecology wanting to visit the “miracle mom.” They asked me a ton of questions and then read my charts, and again, one after another kept reit- erating what a miracle it was that I had survived.

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‘ont ao eer iN © wee ree Sener Ce , – era ae hay A aay ag 1% ny i pies IFE IN MY HOSPITAL ROOM became routine. I got used | ba having my vitals checked at certain times of the day. I also got used to my family having conversations about me in the room, but not including me. The catheter was gone. The tape that had held the drainage tubes in place was removed, along with layers of my skin, causing deep scars.

I couldn’t lie flat, I couldn’t lie on my side, and sitting up was pain- ful. There was no way to get comfortable. Everything hurt, including my psyche. I was still heavily medicated, but at points of clarity I began to feel again. I felt intensely sad. Crippling sadness.

The day my son was born, | died. | had premonitions it was going to happen, but no one believed me. Even more unbelievable is what | would see when | flatlined for… DYING REVEALED HEAVEN’S HELP ” STEPHANIE ARNOLD mire SARI PADORR Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2022 with funding from Kahle/Austin Foundation https://archive.org/details/37secondsdyingreOO0O0arno F% : ean ee ‘Bbaget a : ro Earls — fl : – ww SC decondls | Bevis Sm AOR oa a = DYING REVEALED HEAVEN’S HELP— A MOTHER’S JOURNEY —SFA CR Stephanie Arnold with Sari Padorr ® HarperOne An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers SPisipere dling Powys heen Saati 37 SECONDS.

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HarperCollins website: http://www.harpercollins.com FIRST HARPERCOLLINS PAPERBACK EDITION PUBLISHED IN 2017 Designed by Terry McGrath Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is available upon request. ISBN 978—O0—06—240232—5 1 19 20 21 RRD(C) 100987654 To my children, Valentina, Adina, and Jacob. Thank you for loving me with the purest, strongest, and most sensitive of hearts.

Everything I do, I do for you. To the love of my life. I will never forget the pain we endured or the strength it took to get to the other side. I love you, sweetheart, in this lifetime and the next. ‘ome The first time is a charm: Jonathan and I during our first pregnancy together, which now strikes us as amazingly uneventful.

LORI ALLEN PHOTOGRAPHY Prolagwe i ee ALWAYS KNOWN YOU TO BE A FIGHTER.” It was a pep talk just like the ones he had given me many times before. “I’ve always known you to survive,” my Uncle Mar- vin said, trying to comfort me. | started to sob uncontrol- lably. And then I realized he was trying to distract me from turning around.

Suddenly, a sharp pain shot down my throat and my stomach felt like it was being ripped open. I turned around and watched in horror as a scalpel dug deep into the sternum of someone on an operating table, slicing all the way down the center of the person’s stomach.

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