"There will always be the older white woman in Walmart who stared at us with sheer disgust, or the African-American mother who looked at us and just shook her head.”
Dr. Eben Alexander, a neurosurgeon and former agnostic, suffered a rare and severe case of streptococcal meningitis which caused his brain to flatline. Dr. Alexander made a miraculous recovery and says the experience taught him to “realize that our souls are eternal.”
With her phone in her hand, Lindsay dialed 911 and looked at Abe so that he knew mommy was not okay. “I knew that if he saw 911, he would know that he needed to call and ask for help.”
"I watched the light slip away from my babies eyes. I tried in vain to save her. Sophie was 5 1/2 so not a tiny tot yet this seemingly harmless treat took my angel away."
"Nash had a small choking episode but was fine. We didn’t see anything come out so we assumed he swallowed it. He seemed completely fine and continued to watch the movie. The only thing we observed was a cough he developed after the episode..."
"I froze. As she went from pink, to red, to blue, I screamed at the top of my lungs for someone to help...My baby was going to die, that's all I could think about."
