Two Miracles Two Lives Saved

Contents

From My Heart To Yours….

Prologue

Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

Chapter 24

Chapter 25

About The Author

From My Heart To Yours….

Everyone has a purpose in life. Now I know without a doubt what mine is. God wants me to spread His word throughout the world. I know that God has been preparing me for this book and album my entire life. I thank my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ for giving me the love and the strength I needed to get through this project. With every chapter and with every song I wrote, God cleansed my heart allowing me to heal. I have been set free from the deepest pains held captive in my heart for many years. God has carried me through my grief and defeat and has blessed me and uplifted me to heights I could never have imagined.

God knew that I would need a strong and a loving husband to support me in my life. Frank, I love you with all my heart and you know I would have never made it through the last several years without you. You’re the love of my life. Your love and devotion to me and to our family has carried us through many hard times. Thank you for everything and for not giving up on me. Your obedience and faith in God has been such an inspiration to us all.

Isabella and Frankie, mommy loves you more than anything in the whole universe. Your love and sweetness has carried me through many difficult times. You always helped me find my smile. I’m the luckiest mommy in the whole world to have you as my children. I’m so proud of you and I know that God has very special plans for you both.

I want to thank my family and friends for all of your prayers and support. Peppaw, I love you and miss you very much. You instilled strength and confidence in me at such an early age. You made me feel like I was the most important person in the whole world when you were around me. Thank you for always being there for me in body and in spirit. I can’t wait to see you again.

Mammaw, thank you for always listening with a non-judgmental ear. You always have the best advice and make me think about the decisions that I make in life. Sometimes, I feel like you are the only person on this earth who truly understands me. God knew that I would need you to get through this life and you have never let me down. I love you very much.

Mom and Dad, I couldn’t have asked for better parents and I feel so blessed to have you in my life. No matter what situation I find myself in, your love for me always shines through. Your guidance has helped me through many hard times and I know that I can count on you no matter what. Mom, you are and always will be the best mom in all the world. I am so blessed to have you as my mother.

To my sisters and my sisters in Christ: Lori, Angie Leah, Vickie and Gina, your love and support have meant the world to me. Thank you for your friendship and for always listening. Your support of my music and writings over the years has been encouraging to me. I love you all.

Arnie, you are like a strong eagle never looking back and always soaring to new heights. Thank you for taking me along on the journey and keeping my dreams alive. You saw a talent within me that I couldn’t even see. Your support and love carried me through some of the most difficult times in my life. God sent you to me as a protector and motivator. Thank you for believing in me and for your friendship. I will always treasure our relationship.

Pastor Chuck and Janice, thank you for your love, support and guidance through God’s word. Your understanding and knowledge helped Frank and me through the most difficult time of our marriage. Thank you for your obedience to God’s calling, for you have a very special gift for marriage counseling. God put you in our lives to help us see what matters most in life. We are very blessed to know you and to call you friends.

Katya, you keep me on my path and constantly assure me that God’s plan will be carried out. You are a light in my life and I treasure our friendship.

Barry, thank you for sharing your gift with me and with my family. Your persistence in reminding me to do what God has been calling me to do for many years, gave me the courage to do God’s will. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. You are an inspiration and a blessing to me and to many others.

To all of the church families and prayer warriors who have prayed for me and for my family throughout the years. Your prayers were heard.

And to you, dear readers, may you remember the many blessings in your life as you read about my journey, and celebrate every moment of your life to the fullest.

Prologue

September 18, 2002, I thought that I had died. I found myself in a pool of blood on my living room floor just five days after giving birth to my son. Although my Grandfather had died 12 years earlier, he came to my aid and helped me through this terrifying moment in my life. I should have been very surprised by the events that took place in my life that day, but I wasn’t. On two separate occasions during my pregnancy I had dreamt something serious would happen to me after delivering my son.

January 12th of that same year, I was rushed by ambulance to the hospital in horrific pain. I found out in the ER that I was pregnant with my son. The doctors said it was a tubal pregnancy, so they would need to abort the baby at once. The doctors explained my life was in serious danger and if I didn’t agree to abort my baby I could die. Against everyone’s will including my husband’s, I would not let him or her do it.

It took two miracles and several acts of God for my son’s life and my life to be saved. This is my story…

Chapter 1

It was New Year’s Eve 2001. I don’t remember the Connecticut shoreline ever feeling so cold. A beautiful blanket of white snow made the frigid night seem almost bearable. My husband, Frank and I were not celebrating as we had done in years past by bringing in the New Year with family and friends. We had a much deeper reason to celebrate with only each other that New Year’s Eve. I had just completed my first trimester of my second pregnancy. I was told that I would have a lot of complications completing a successful pregnancy due to my abnormal uterus.

I had lost my first child because of a tubal pregnancy in February 2000. After a few weeks into my first pregnancy I started experiencing pain in my lower abdomen. I called my doctor and his nurse told me since it was my first pregnancy that experiencing pain in the lower abdomen was normal. Your muscles are beginning to stretch making room for your growing fetus.

A few more weeks went by and the pain became more severe. I called my Obstetrician again, Henry Jacobs, M.D., of West Hartford, Connecticut. He told me to come in later that afternoon for an examination. Dr. Jacobs did an Ultra Sound to see what was causing the pain.

He searched for several minutes and did not see a fetus in my uterus. Dr. Jacobs explained that the fetus could be growing in my Fallopian tube, rather than in my uterus. This is why I was probably experiencing so much pain. Due to the growing fetus, the tube most likely would rupture usually around the tenth week of pregnancy. If not caught in time, the Fallopian tube rupture would cause me to hemorrhage and to possibly die.

Dr Jacobs estimated that I was about eight or nine weeks pregnant. He sent me to a high-risk pregnancy specialist that same afternoon who confirmed that I was having a tubal pregnancy. The doctor explained, There’s nothing that I can do to save your baby. I know that this is hard, but we need to abort the fetus at once. Gloria, your life is at risk! I will give you and your husband a few minutes alone, but we need to get started as soon as possible.

She left the room and Frank and I were heart broken and in complete shock. All we could do was cry. There were no words to speak. We were so confused. We had only found out a few weeks earlier we were pregnant. We were completely surprised by the pregnancy to begin with. I had been on birth control for several years. I remember thinking: Being pregnant is not what I had planned for my life right now, but my life is not about my timing. It is in Gods timing.

So if this was in God’s timing why was I now losing my baby? I was shaken to my very core and I felt so helpless. Frank and I sat in the room and waited for the doctor to come back to get us. Every second that passed by seemed like an eternity. I thought about running out of the office so that they couldn’t hurt my baby, but I knew deep inside that this pregnancy wasn’t meant to be.

A few moments later I was taken into another room and given two shots of Methatrexate, a very powerful drug most commonly given to cancer patients to kill cancer cells in the body. I was told by the nurse who gave me the shots, The medicine will abort the fetus within the next few days. Go home and you must be on complete bed rest. You may feel some pain as the fetus passes, but you should be all right by the end of the week.

I knew that I should be feeling something emotionally, but I found myself numb to everyone and everything around me. The whole experience had happened so fast. I remember thinking; this morning Frank and I were happy and pregnant. Now my baby is gone! Why? Why? Why is this happening? Within one afternoon I had been to see two doctors who were both specialists in their field of medicine and still the end result was loosing my baby by the end of the day.