{"id":27,"date":"2012-07-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/genhorrall\/fear-part-1\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T19:17:35","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T19:17:35","slug":"fear-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/empowernetwork.com\/genhorrall\/fear-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Fear (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Okay today I want to take about something in your business that most everyone does not like to think about.\u00a0 And we are going to do something just a little bit different.\u00a0 I am going to share with you a story that not many people but my closest friends and family know.\u00a0 See today was my twin\u2019s birthday.\u00a0 And while the day is all about them, this is the day that I had to face the very biggest fear<\/span><\/strong> in my life.<\/p>\n

When I was pregnant with my twins my husband was on deployment.\u00a0 So I went through the whole stinking pregnancy without him<\/strong>.\u00a0 I hated it.\u00a0 But I digress.\u00a0 I had some health issues and had to watch what I did, not to mention that being pregnant with multiple babies all ready makes your pregnancy high risk.\u00a0 Thank goodness we had some of the most amazing friends anyone could ask for and that I could ask them for help.<\/p>\n

So I had spent the day playing and hanging out with one of these friends, her name is Kat and she is awesome.\u00a0 We drove all over the place and she went with me to get this video camera that for some reason I just had to get that day<\/span>.\u00a0 I knew<\/em> I was not going to be able to go and get it any other day I had to have that day.\u00a0 So she went with me.\u00a0 Kat was pregnant too and 5 weeks behind me.\u00a0 So we called it our preggo day of shopping.\u00a0 LOL.<\/p>\n

We spent all day out and I was not feel all that well, but feeling a little out of it was nothing new. So we ate dinner at my house, she helped me get some of the things set up in our one bedroom apartment for the twins a John would not be likely be home when I delivered.\u00a0 It is so funny when I think of that day now.\u00a0 Neither of us knew how soon they would be there.\u00a0 I was 25 weeks and 3 days pregnant<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Then It Happened<\/span><\/h2>\n

I went to bed around midnight and woke up at 2:20 and felt like I was going to wet myself, but when I sat up on the side of the bed water gushed all over the floor.\u00a0 I still had to pee like a race horse so I knew right then I was in preterm labor.\u00a0 My mind raced.\u00a0 I had to pee.\u00a0 I sat down peed and prayed that was all that was going to happen.<\/p>\n

I called Kat but she did not<\/span> answer her phone.\u00a0 So I called my other friend Amber she lived downstairs too.\u00a0 Her husband Larry answered and then just set the phone down and fell back to sleep.\u00a0 I was naked and needed help getting some clothes on.\u00a0 Amber answered and when I told her I was in labor she panicked.\u00a0 I told her to come up stairs and help me get dressed.\u00a0 She was fixing to get Troy to come too and I had to remind her no that I was not<\/span> dressed.\u00a0 Now if you wondering why I was naked.\u00a0 Well hello all my stuff got soaked when I sat up and I had to take it off.<\/p>\n

Then I called Labor and Delivery at Balboa.\u00a0 I do not know if you<\/span> have ever dealt with military nurses before, but some of them have the bed side manner of mud<\/strong>.\u00a0 Lucky me I got mud<\/span> on the phone.\u00a0 I told her that I had lost my mucus plug 5 days ago and that I was pretty sure that my water had just broke and that I was at 25 weeks.\u00a0 She told me that I had probably peed on myself, but if I wanted to waste my gas I could come in.\u00a0 And she hung up.<\/p>\n

Now I was mad and scared as hell and still naked and worried about losing my babies<\/span><\/strong> because if I bent over to put on my pants.\u00a0 Luckily Amber (who was 23 weeks pregnant) arrived all though frantic.\u00a0 It cracked me up even then that I had to tell her to calm down.\u00a0 She helped me get dressed and kept gagging because she kept stepping in the amniotic fluid all over the floor.\u00a0 Now I know it was not funny, but I was trying so hard not to laugh.\u00a0 She helped me get some things together and then she went to try and wake up Kat.<\/p>\n

Kat was sleeping hard.\u00a0 I came down the stairs to my apartment as I saw Amber walking back across the court yard.\u00a0 I told her that Kat slept with the bedroom window open and we should go around back and wake her up there.\u00a0 I needed someone calm<\/em> to keep Amber calm and Kat was going to have to do that.\u00a0 Because Troy her husband was still half asleep and trying to get dressed.<\/p>\n

So I waddled while Amber ran through the parking lot to Kat\u2019s window.\u00a0 We had to go back there anyway to get to the car.\u00a0 So I got to Kat\u2019s window just in time to hear her tell Amber I was asleep upstairs<\/em> and she needed to go back to bed.\u00a0 Man this was turning into a circus<\/strong>.\u00a0 So Kat got up.\u00a0 Amber ran across the parking lot and fell<\/strong>.\u00a0 I had to tell her to calm down again or she was going to be in a room beside me.<\/p>\n

She headed off to get dressed and Troy came out to announce he was going to drive me to the hospital.\u00a0 They had a two door Camaro.\u00a0 That was not happening and as I was telling Troy there was no way he was taking me in that when Kat came out.<\/p>\n

She looked exhausted.\u00a0 She announced she was going to fix the problem and drive me to the hospital in my car.\u00a0 I asked what took her so long to get outside and she said she was having the no pants dream only to realize that as she was fixing to step outside, that she really had forgotten her pants.\u00a0 I decided in that moment I was going to driving myself to the hospital.\u00a0 This was getting crazy<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Yes I was crazy enough to drive myself to the hospital in labor!<\/span><\/h3>\n

So I drove myself and Kat in my car so that I was not alone, in labor and driving.\u00a0 Like I said crazy, and Troy and Amber were to follow.\u00a0 I got the hospital with no traffic in 15 minutes flat and I did not even speed.\u00a0 Troy and Amber showed up about 10 minutes later because Troy got lost<\/span>.<\/p>\n

And the three pregnant ladies<\/span> marched to the elevator got the third floor and made the trek to labor and delivery<\/strong>.\u00a0 Why<\/em> the hospital but one of the most used areas on the third floor and made it difficult to get to for women that could be in preterm labor is beyond me.\u00a0 But when the three of us descended onto Labor and Delivery they did not know what to do or who even need care at that point.\u00a0 So I told the nurse my story.<\/p>\n

She got me to a room and had me change into a gown.\u00a0 This time Kat was with me. I am telling you when you are pregnant and need help<\/span> you just start not to care who the heck sees you naked at that point.\u00a0 The nurse took my information and put on the monitors to the babies.\u00a0 There was definitely something going on.\u00a0 And they were monitoring the contractions.\u00a0 Those had not gotten bad yet<\/strong>.\u00a0 And she rushed off to get a doctor.<\/p>\n

As I was getting through telling the doctor my story and the fact that I had lost my mucus plug 5 days before and was having what I thought were just Braxton Hicks contraction.\u00a0 In walked Miss Mud<\/span>.\u00a0 She started telling me if I was having symptoms I should of followed up with the same smug voice that she had told me I had just peed myself but I could waste my gas if I wanted too.\u00a0 I let that woman have it right there<\/em>.\u00a0 (Now I do not like being mean, but she had put my children\u2019s lives at risk. What if I had believed her.\u00a0 Thankfully I knew more.)\u00a0 I told her that this was my pregnancy<\/em> I was taking fine care of myself and that no I had not peed on myself, I knew what the hell I was talking<\/strong> about and she needed to stay the hell out of my sight for the rest<\/span> of my stay at the hospital.<\/p>\n

I looked back over to see the Doctor, Nurse, and Kat all looking at me sort of shocked and then when she left they tried really hard not to laugh.\u00a0 Apparently she was not a very well liked person for the attitude she had around there.\u00a0 And she stayed away from me the rest of my time there.\u00a0 Once they took the test they confirmed what I knew these babies were trying to make an entrance<\/span>.\u00a0 So they started pumping me full of steroids for their lungs.\u00a0 Then it all became real<\/strong>.\u00a0 I was really here, this was really happening and my husband was going to miss the birth of his children.\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

To be continued =D<\/span><\/strong><\/h3>\n

Fear (Part 2)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As always to your freedom<\/span>!<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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