Please read the poem. A powerful message by a amazing writer.

I Lived

A Story by Kathryn Smith(Thank you Kathryn)

Hope if everybody runs

you choose to stay

Miracles.

Some people believe in them.

Some people don’t.

I am living proof there is such thing as a miracle.

If you think about it, we all are.

Tomorrow I will be turning 23.

Each Birthday is such a triumph for me.

When my mother was expecting me, I wasn’t growing.

No one could figure out why.

My parents took it so far to the highest scientific doctors and even they couldn’t find the reason.

I was due in September.

The doctors told my parents to get an abortion.

If they didn’t get an abortion, I wouldn’t survive.

If I did survive, I would most likely be severely handicapped.

If I lived, I would die by the time I was 3.

Thank God my parents had faith in me.

Most people these days would sadly choose abortion.

I was taken C-Section on July 21st, 1992 at 5:12 PM.

Everyone was so excited because I was crying.

It was a small cry, but it meant my lungs were well developed.

I was 1 pound 6 ounces.

You could fit a wedding ring around my leg.

I stayed in the NICU for months fighting for my life.

The odds were stacked against me, and I nearly died multiple times, but I pulled through.

On October 6th, my parents wedding anniversary, they took me home.

My birth story made the front page of the newspaper.

I re read it recently and read that my parents were in the process of planning my funeral.

To this day, I am so thankful to be here.

To be alive.

I feel guilty when I see other people who have severe special needs.

That was supposed to be me.

What did I do, to be so damn lucky?

Sometimes I feel like I don’t deserve to be so lucky.

I want so badly to revisit the NICU and to see the parents.

The parents who have dying babies.

Children who like me, have a bleak diagnosis and future, read by doctors.

I want to talk to the Mothers and Fathers who are giving up hope.

I desperately want to tell them to be there for their children.

They need to have faith.

I lived.

I lived and their child just might too.

Miracles really do happen.

and I am now 23!

Many years ahead of 3.

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22 Responses to “Please read the poem. A powerful message by a amazing writer.”

its inspiring really nice

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By flyingcolours603 on June 9, 2017 at 10:46 pm

I enjoyed your work. You are amazing.

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By johncoyote on June 9, 2017 at 10:47 pm
1. thank you so much sorry for late reply
  
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  By flyingcolours603 on November 15, 2017 at 7:41 pm

Very spiritual Yes from your words —an atheist like me is confronted by the supernatural. I am very thankful that I have read you. Yes, you make me feel like a soul. Anand Bose

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By gspottedpen on August 23, 2015 at 6:10 am

They are true and honest words. Some people are living testament to the strenghth of life. Thank you for reading and the comment.

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By johncoyote on August 23, 2015 at 7:55 am

I ant to be put into the column of people who believe in miracles, and one in the column of people who are glad you are one of those miracles. It may be that you survived to help others be grateful that they survived.

Thank you so much for liking my poems Soliloquy and Who Am I? on my blog WordMusic. That makes ME grateful I survived. Some day, ask me for the story and I will tell it. I think my birth mother believed in post partum abortion. (Sorry, a sick old joke.)

Brent Kincaid

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By kauaiartist on August 18, 2015 at 2:28 am

Reblogged this on Crazy Pasta Child.

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By penneyvanderbilt on August 11, 2015 at 9:58 am

Beautiful story!!

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By Ink Pastries on August 7, 2015 at 7:55 pm