Sorry for the delay in posting but I was waiting for some valuable information from my dear friend Tracy Sutton before I could continue. Here is what happened next in Tracy's words…
"October 25th 4:45 pm… I was returning from Children's Hospital after meeting my sister Sharon, as I walked up to my office, I noticed an ambulance outside. Chris was standing out waiting to show them where to come. I asked him what happened and he said Sonnie is sick so I came in and I asked who is going with her to the Hospital? No one said anything so I said I am going and I grabbed my bag and went with her. As we were waiting at the hospital she was in pain really bad. As they were asking her all the information and family history, I was standing there praying because at this point I had no idea what was going on. The doctor came in and asked her a few questions about the pain and then he ordered her some pain medicine to help the pain. Then they took some x-rays and once the x-rays came back they put some dye in to look further. Once that test came back I knew something was going on because they told her they were going to move her to ICU. While we were waiting for them to come give her more pain medicine she began to tell the doctor that the pain had increased. So the doctor asked her what the pain level was and she said 9, but then changed it to a 10. While the doctor was talking to her she began to breathe differently and said she could not take the pain anymore so one of the doctors went out to see where the medicine they had ordered for her was. So, the doctor was typing in the chart and talking to Sonnie and when he looked over she had turned blue and he called out CODE BLUE!!! I was standing there when all the doctors and everyone came running. I began to pray out loud and asking God to come in and move on Sonnie's behalf. I cannot remember all I said but I know that I said "We need you Father God RIGHT NOW!!" I then called Wes Norred, who was there earlier and had gone home. I called him and told him to hurry back that Sonnie had "Code Blue". In the meantime while waiting on Wes, I started walking up and down the halls praying out loud, about 10 minutes later Sheila Hayes came out to me in the hall and she said "She is back, God heard you" and she walked over and gave me a hug.
Sheila Hayes, Floridalma Malin and Catherine Giron were three special women during this whole time, they showed that they cared and had much compassion even though they didn't know me or Sonnie. Sheila Hayes went above and beyond. Because we had been waiting for family to arrive, she made sure everyone got to where we were waiting for her to come out of surgery. At this point Wes and I were still trying to call and get numbers and information to contact people for Sonnie. Floridalma was the person that Sonnie gave the emergency number for Suzanne, and I told her at this point we needed that number that she had been given for emergency contact. I told her "As you can see… she has coded, I have to call that number." So once I got the number I called several times and no answer, so I texted her and she called me immediately. I began to explain to her as much as I could tell her and she was saying I am on my way. I told her that I needed her to calm down before getting on the road. I advised her that no matter what the time was I would be there until she got there. Once she arrived, we embraced and talked and she took over from there."
So there you have the next part of my climb… it seems so unreal to me, like I didn't really experience it… especially since I cannot remember any of it at all.
When I coded it was for a full 10 minutes, I died for 10 whole minutes and the doctors were able to revive me…
Friends, I will write more tomorrow on what actually happened to me that night in the ER at UT Southwestern University Hospital St. Paul. Until then…
With Much Love,
Sonnie
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