At Deaths Door three times but still Living.

by Ann-Maire
(Jackson, Michigan USA)

When I was born the Doctors told my mother I would live for maybe an hour but i Lived.

When I had head surgery in 1997, I had an allergic reaction to latex and had my neck swell about the size of my head and had to be put on a breathing machine because I stopped breathing for awhile. I woke up, but I lost my memory.

In 1999 I had a SubdurlHemotomia - bleeding in the brain, my family dog saved my life by telling my parents that there was something wrong with me. He barked and kept running back and forth until he got my parents to see what was wrong.

When they went downstairs to see, I was kicking and screaming in so much pain that I was taken to the emergency room and I was rushed over to U of M where they told my parents that if I waited two more days, I'd be dead.

If we haden't taken blackie in as a family dog when my dad found him unwanted in a box in the coldest of winter, at his work church door steps, I wouldn't be here today.

Blackie died August 25 2007 the day before my dad's birthday - Blackie's my guardian Angel and I'll miss him.