I Choose You

<p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>It starts like food poisoning. Then it becomes something else something that won't let you sip water the kind that strips weight sleep and dignity until you are living in minutes.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She is a physician. She knows what prolonged vomiting does to the brain. She asks for thiamine. She is waved off. She returns. And returns. She is given fluids and polite discharge papers while her body starves in slow motion.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In clinic waiting rooms her arms look like evidence of battle fought.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Dr. Onweni's story shares what happens when a woman's suffering is normalized. After you read it and you'll never use the words it's just morning sickness again.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>This is a testimony of love that stays faith that breathes and joy that returns in its own time.</span></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p>