{"id":2694,"date":"2011-05-08T19:07:17","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T02:07:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=2694"},"modified":"2011-05-08T19:07:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-09T02:07:17","slug":"the-promise-walk-for-preeclampsia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grace-filled.net\/?p=2694","title":{"rendered":"The Promise Walk for Preeclampsia"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 7th, I participated in the Promise Walk for Preeclampsia<\/a> with my parents, brother, sister-in-law, and Daniel. As many of you know, I’m a preeclampsia<\/a>\/HELLP Syndrome<\/a> survivor so it was a way for me to get some emotional healing from the experience. Originally, I was going to be helping with the social media presence but we had the move and then Daniel got sick.<\/p>\n

They had a group of high schoolers helping with registration. There were tables with preeclampsia shirts, hats, and stuff and I got a survivor shirt from them. There were also face-painting and crafts for the kids, a silent auction, tables from various birth groups and an OB-GYN, a table for a sporting goods store, and a lot of activities going on. They had a speakers at 9:30 a.m. (one survivor who had lost her daughter and two publicity people for local blood banks who were also preeclampsia moms), a dove release remembering those who had lost kids\/moms\/daughters to the condition, and the two co-coordinators spoke. One common thread was that it is just awful that a condition this prevalent (5-8% of all pregnancies) is so relatively unknown. I think the first speaker would have moved me to tears if I hadn’t been so tired — Daniel woke up at 6 a.m. and I was feeling pretty flattened. The dove release was pretty spectacular — they were trained birds and were flying in formation around the area.<\/p>\n

The walk itself was “interesting”. Somehow, we all missed the signs so we ended up taking a wrong turn on the trail and walking much farther than anticipated. I kept a good pace and was proud of myself since I was also dealing with a migraine and fibro pain.<\/p>\n

Afterwards, Sean (my evil twin) and Dad headed home with the stroller while Mom, Jeanette (sister-in-law), Daniel, and I hit up Costco and Trader Joe’s.<\/p>\n

I’m glad I got to do it — preeclampsia awareness is one of my passions and this was a way to use it. One really wonderful thing is that of the $200 I raised myself, $150 of it was from Jon’s congregation. (Go Metanoia!) I’m very thankful that there are now people in the congregation who know about it and I’m hoping that maybe one of them knowing what it is will save a friend’s life or a daughter’s life or a grand-daughter’s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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