Featured in the AllPaths Magazine, 2024 Volume 3
By Maggie Husbands
89/70.
I stare at this extremely low blood pressure, see my heart rate climb and feel clots the size of baseballs pour out of my body.
As an ER nurse with over six years of experience, I know this means I am dying. If I don’t receive an emergency blood transfusion soon, I will not live to continue my fight to become a mother.
As I start to black out, the physician enters the room, takes one look, and quickly shouts “blood, now!”. After that it was a blur of medical staff in the ER and operating room working to save my life.