Good morning everyone!
Three years ago, I left on a Sunday afternoon from Ashland, Oregon (Southern, Oregon) to go visit my daughter a 5+ hour drive away in Portland, Oregon...she didn't have a phone, I had no idea if she would be home (and the odds were she wouldn't be), I had to work the next morning, we weren't even on good terms at the moment, but suddenly I KNEW I needed to go to Portland. No particular panic....just a "knowing".
When I arrived at 6:30 p.m....I found her crying her eyes out, sick with a "cold" she said. She was beet red from head to toe, her face was swollen and she had a resting heart rate of 132. She was too sick to know how sick she was and her roommate was unconcerned and clueless.
When I took her to the emergency room, they swept her past people bleeding from the head, others with obviously broken limbs, and determined she was almost comatose from a severe allergic reaction to a sulfa drug her doctor had prescribed the day before for a sinus infection. The doctor said if I had not arrived she would have soon "gone to sleep" and she would have died. She had never had a sulfa drug before....
Call it a mother's intuition or ESP, or heavenly intervention....I don't know...
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