LWM Staff Writers
‘How could this be happening again? My body did not want to let go of my baby, and neither did I. Nothing prepares you for delivering your dead child.’
“The very cord that was meant to sustain her ended her life so abruptly.”
‘I was so skinny my ribs poked through my shirt. I was an easy target. I couldn’t fight back.’: Man battles ‘body dysmorphia’ after years of bullying, finds ‘confidence’ in new body
“I was pushed around, thrown, kicked until I passed out. I looked in the mirror and felt ashamed of how I looked. I didn’t tell anyone what was going on. Until one day I fell to the floor at my mom’s house and cried like I never had and talked about driving off a bridge. I can’t imagine what it must’ve been like for my mom to see her 6’8″ son breaking down in front of her, not knowing how to help.”
‘Strong people do foster care. Bible thumpers do foster care. Not us. People like us do not do foster care.’: Woman reflects on harrowing journey through infertility, foster care
“We tried for five long years to have children of our own. Five years is sixty months. That’s six hundred ovulation tests and one hundred and twenty pregnancy tests. Always negative.”
Elderly couple holding hands during Hurricane Florence evacuations proves true love withstands all storms
“My tears are flowing.”
As A Healthy 28-Year-Old, I Never Thought I Would Fall Victim To Cardiac Arrest
“Doctors informed my family they were unsure if I would regain normal functioning, as I had possibly lost too much oxygen to the brain.”
‘I shouted, ‘Help my mom! She can’t breathe!’ I saw a priest coming toward me, this was either a dream or we were dead.’
“I remember whispering, ‘Don’t leave me.’ She barely whispered in Vietnamese, ‘I can’t breathe.'”
My Baby Never Came Home With Me
“One week after we lost our daughter, we walked in the door to our apartment.”
‘When I was by myself, so deep in the woods the trail was invisible, I considered turning back.’ Woman eloquently describes her journey with running
“If you run, you are a runner. It doesn’t matter how fast or how far. It doesn’t matter if today is your first day or if you’ve been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run.”
– John Bingham
‘I’m not pregnant. Yes, that’s an ultrasound, with my name, a recent date, but I am not pregnant…well, not anymore.’
“Why is my body not strong enough? What is wrong with me? What am I doing wrong? Why is this happening to me? What if I can’t have anymore kids, will my husband leave me?”
I Used To Hate Being Called A Cancer Survivor
“Until I realized it wasn’t about me.”