Monday, April 26, 2010

the miracle.



The Miracle I experienced:?

I'm Angelisa, and a year ago in Grand Rapids MI, I nearly dropped dead, from excessive blood loss, which was a year in the making. My blood supply had gone down to a 2.5 blood volume! I had run around Grand Rapids for a solid year, dying and never knew it! I went to the malls, movies and held jobs, all while dying I lost the same amount of blood and accident victim would in a fatal crash. For a year, I would hear my pulse through my ears and had no idea why. See, I had the huge fibroid tumor. Through menstrual cycles, I'd lose more and more blood without making anymore. Anyway, I was so tired, I thought I was gonna have a heart attack. The simple act of rolling over wore me out and so did standing up. I always felt like I had run from Texas to New York under water. One day I went shopping, and started bleeding profusely, I wore pads which didn't help, and I had lost huge clots the size of small hale. I pleaded for the service clerk at the D&W food store to call an ambulance for me. One came and got me to a hospital I had to wait for an hour before anyone helped me. The bleeding stopped after I got there. Had I kept bleeding, I would have dropped dead in the lobby. God stopped it. All I wanted them to do was stop the bleeding and send me home, but of course, they couldn't. They did the usual poking and stuff, they somehow realized that I was surviving on body fluids in place of the blood. I was told I needed a hysterectomy. (The operation from hell)! I was lucky that the store lady was there and the doctors. St Mary's medical center has a lacks cancer center that I was admitted to. They found NO CANCER, but they found a large tumor that once was my womb. The hospital said that I had the lowest blood volume in that hospital's history. rarely does anyone survive that blood loss-I did! When it was all over, I had to learn walking again because I was so stiff from being on my back for a week. There were complications, and I had stopped breathing so when I woke up, there was a tube down my throat. I was on life support. Anyway, I lived and I feel so good! I wanna spread the word to give blood...someone gave me six pints of theirs! An entire body full of it. Thanks!