How many second chances
Do we get at this life?
Don’t you feel destined
To do amazing things
In your life? Urgency pounding
I’ve been handed
EIGHT second chances
1st Second Chance
In Utero my Mom
Kept falling while 8 months
Pregnant, hospitalized
To prevent her from falling
Alcohol poisoning
A projectile vomiter
Rough beginnings
2nd Second Chance
Early twenties
An ovarian tumor
Led to emergency surgery
That led to a second surgery
That led to 10 months
Of hell
On Lupron
A plan prepared
Ready to execute
But the phone rang, my Dad:
“Don’t know where your head is at now, but don’t do it!”
3rd Second Chance
Late 20’s, pre-eclampsia
32.6 weeks pregnant
14 days in the hospital
5 pounds of fluid filled my lungs
Over night
Pulmonary edema
Kidneys failing
Liver not far behind
Emergency C-section
3#, 9 oz baby girl arrived
While I fought for my life
For over 36 hours
To live
To meet my daughter
4th Second Chance
Business trip
Left engine on plane blew up
Stewardess screaming:
“We’re on fire, we’re on fire- we are all going to die!”
5th Second Chance
A devastating hysterectomy
With the gift of my doctor spotting
Something wrong with my appendix
A carcinoid tumor
If ruptured- a death sentence
I mourned inability to not have more children …but
Blessed to be alive
6th Second Chance
After a toe joint replaced
Got super sick
Hospitalized for 14 days
Diagnosis, “we think you have leukemia”
Do I have enough life insurance?
Bone marrow test- BEYOND unpleasant
Ruled leukemia out… but
7th Second Chance
“We think you contracted
West Valley Fever when you went to
Nevada”
Mom was dying
Worse mortality rate
Than leukemia
Over 6 months
Scans
Sinus scrapes
7 doctors on deck
Final diagnosis:
“You just have really bad luck”
8th Second Chance
Insane bladder infection
With a deadly antibiotic resistant bug
I was sent home on intravenous
Line in my arm
Self administered heavy duty
Antibiotics into my body
3 times a day, 3 weeks
Another Doc said:
“You just have really bad luck”
I know I’m meant to do amazing things in this life
Never take your life for granted
Focus on your now
Spend quality time with
Your family & friends
Dream
Set goals
Achieve those goals
Have courage
And love
With all you’ve got
No regrets
strengthdefined 