What if the person lying motionless in the hospital bed can hear everything?
My name is Laura Bennett, and for nearly a month the people closest to me believed I was gone forever. Doctors told them I didn’t survive the complications during childbirth. Nurses whispered condolences in the hallway. The hospital paperwork even listed my condition as “non-responsive with minimal neurological activity.”
But they were wrong.
I wasn’t gone.
I was trapped.
I remember the moment everything went dark in the delivery room. The lights were blinding, voices were shouting, machines were beeping wildly. I could feel hands pressing on my stomach and someone shouting that my blood pressure was dropping. My husband, Ryan Bennett, had been standing near my head, gripping my hand nervously while the doctors tried to stabilize me.
Then everything faded.
