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Pregnancy can be one of the most joyful times in a woman’s life, but also the most stressful. The mother forms an essential bond, a connection with her child as it develops and grows in her womb.

Next month it will be 5 years since I lost my 25 year old son in a car accident. It’s significant only because I was sure that in the beginning, I wouldn’t survive at all. But I did, and this is a story of how I did survive and how I have learned to find some joy in my life again.

When I was about eight years old, I had Scarlet Fever. I remember being in bed for days and the health department putting a huge QUARANTINED sign in front of our house. Scarlet Fever damaged my heart and I developed a murmur. As the years passed, the leaking valve became worse, and two more valves began to leak.