The Way Forward

When I was 24 years old, I was standing in line at my bank. All of a sudden I felt a sharp pain in my abdomen and dropped to the floor. Next thing I knew I was in an ambulance. At the hospital they put me on a stretcher and left me in the hallway while they handled patients they thought needed more urgent care.

As I lay there, I looked at my abdomen. It was expanding and expanding, getting larger and larger. I waved my hand at the next person walking by. He said, "Oh, my God," and started yelling. "Emergency, emergency."

I frankly don't know the next sequence of events, except that when I woke up the physician said to me, "You had an ectopic pregnancy which is a fetus stuck in your fallopian tube. The tube burst. You lost a lot of blood. You are ok now."

I was lucky to be alive. I am so grateful to people like you who save lives.