I woke up in a daze. The grey walls of the hospital room sat bare, a single recliner and medical equipment consumed the nondescript space. An oxygen tube was pushing air through my nose, my throat sore from being intubated. My eyes darted back and forth as I tried to make sense of where I was. As …
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The Challenge Of Naming My Children
As I laid in the ICU, recovering from my near death experience, a nurse walked in from the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. She smiled as she asked, "Are you going to name your children?" My babies were now two days old, and up until then, my triplets had been known as "Baby A", "Baby B" and "Baby C". …