sunmountain
01-16-2002, 06:44 PM
This morning around 8:30 one of the midwives I see died in a horrific car accident. Both of her children in the car survived.
She was revered as the first midwife in our area to have hospital privileges and fostered in a new era in birth here. She was a kind, loving, non-judgemental woman. She assisted me in getting the help I needed when dealing with my depression during pregnancy. None of this sounds as fluid as I had hoped, but we are all shocked and dismayed by her passing. She touched many lives in our community, yet is being described as nothing but "a mother" on the news. There is nothing wrong with that title! It's how I would be described if the same fate found me, but she was so much more to so many more people--you should see the pictures and letters hanging in the office where she works, all of them testamonials to natural birth and loving thank-yous to those women who work there--all brought together through her doing.
I am very sad today. I felt she deserved a rememberence on these boards, as you all would understand losing someone like this. I had an appointment to see her next week, they called me this morning, before I found out what happened, to reschedule.
And if Els' 3 Ones is around--thank you for the "On Joy and Sorrow" post on the TAO boards. It has helped in dealing with this and the death of the woman in MA. I found out about both today.
She was revered as the first midwife in our area to have hospital privileges and fostered in a new era in birth here. She was a kind, loving, non-judgemental woman. She assisted me in getting the help I needed when dealing with my depression during pregnancy. None of this sounds as fluid as I had hoped, but we are all shocked and dismayed by her passing. She touched many lives in our community, yet is being described as nothing but "a mother" on the news. There is nothing wrong with that title! It's how I would be described if the same fate found me, but she was so much more to so many more people--you should see the pictures and letters hanging in the office where she works, all of them testamonials to natural birth and loving thank-yous to those women who work there--all brought together through her doing.
I am very sad today. I felt she deserved a rememberence on these boards, as you all would understand losing someone like this. I had an appointment to see her next week, they called me this morning, before I found out what happened, to reschedule.
And if Els' 3 Ones is around--thank you for the "On Joy and Sorrow" post on the TAO boards. It has helped in dealing with this and the death of the woman in MA. I found out about both today.