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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I receive an email from ABC World News with Diane Sawyer. They want to come to Salt Lake City to interview me. I’m skeptical, but I decide to consider it. I don’t want to prostitute my sickness to the media’s love of McNugget news bites.
#2 I was terrified about the interview, but I agreed to do what I could to help the show. I was the story of millions of people just like me, who had survived despite being diagnosed with a terminal disease.
#3 I was in labor for thirty hours, and when the baby was born, his heart was failing. We brought him to the neonatal intensive care unit, where he needed oxygen.
#4 I was thirty-eight years old when I got pregnant with Finch. I’d never babysat, never even changed a diaper, and yet I was pregnant. I was the baby of the family, and I’d never babysat, never even changed a diaper.

Sujets

Santé et bien-être

Bien-être émotionnel

Love

Love (disambiguation)

Fitness

Sleep

Health

Sexualité

sexualité

Sexualité

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Publié par	Everest Media LLC
Date de parution	24 juillet 2022
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9798822547179
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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#1

I receive an email from ABC World News with Diane Sawyer. They want to come to Salt Lake City to interview me. I’m skeptical, but I decide to consider it. I don’t want to prostitute my sickness to the media’s love of McNugget news bites.

#2

I was terrified about the interview, but I agreed to do what I could to help the show. I was the story of millions of people just like me, who had survived despite being diagnosed with a terminal disease.

#3

I was in labor for thirty hours, and when the baby was born, his heart was failing. We brought him to the neonatal intensive care unit, where he needed oxygen.

#4

I was thirty-eight years old when I got pregnant with Finch. I’d never babysat, never even changed a diaper, and yet I was pregnant. I was the baby of the family, and I’d never babysat, never even changed a diaper.

#5

After I got pregnant, I fell in love with motherhood. I was shocked by the suddenness of creating a human in my body, but something happened when I got pregnant: I fell in love with motherhood.

#6

I had never known anyone with Down syndrome, and I was terrified that I wouldn’t be able to care for Finch. But as I held him, I realized that I loved him with a power that turned my tender heart liquid.

#7

I lay awake thinking about Beauty the night after I find out about Finch’s diagnosis. I remember how I had studied the epics in college, and how they always talked about Beauty and Virtue and Truth. I felt like I was placing my tongue here and there to feel for the sharp places and feel for what was right.

#8

The email I had to send to my friends about Finch was simple: he was healthy and different than we expected, and we loved him fiercely.

#9

I interview people like the governor of Utah, Jon Huntsman Jr. , and local celebrities. I work with smart and funny people, and the joy of being around adults who can get their own milk leaves me euphoric. I haven’t realized how lonely being a mother to an infant can be.

#10

I had left the archetype of hip young person and had entered the archetype of mother. I was profoundly aware of the fact that I was wearing a maternity shirt. I had never felt less sexy. I went to the concert with Sean.

#11

I stop in my tracks when I see the bodies braced and wheeled, held fast with loving hands and belts running across their chests. I realize I’ve been blind my whole life. An entire population has been invisible to me.

#12

I had a job at the Wasatch Journal, a magazine that was based in a very white, very square building. I was deliriously happy, and I loved my son very much. But I needed this time to remember who I was outside of the day-to-day minutiae of motherhood.

#13

I was at the Journal a year and a half, and I was feeling unstoppable. I had been at the magazine long enough to meet Malcolm Gladwell for drinks, and I dreamed of getting a toe in at Rolling Stone or the New Yorker.

#14

I make a right turn into the parking lot of our local grocery store. I buy two pregnancy tests, and five minutes later, I’m in the yoga studio, giggling uncontrollably. I have another passenger on board: my heart is beating like a drunken toddler.

#15

I take Sean on a date to the Metropolitan, one of Salt Lake’s swanky downtown restaurants. I'm out of my mind on baby hormones, and I recognize it. I'm pregnant again.

#16

We had been sure that we would make it, but the publisher's twentysomething son came to us and told us that we were done. We were shocked, but we understood. The Wasatch Journal was closed as of today.

#17

I’ve been unemployed for two weeks, and I’m trying to convince myself that it’s a positive thing. I’m lucky the magazine lasted so long. I’ll be a professional writer again someday, but for now I’ll help Finch with his Down syndrome calisthenics.

#18

I’m pregnant, and my stomach is pinched as if in the jaws of a nutcracker. I remember this from my pregnancy with Finch. Nausea became the landscape that I lived in.