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    Love and Accept It All: A Journey from Near Death to Bliss
    Love and Accept It All: A Journey from Near Death to Bliss
    Love and Accept It All: A Journey from Near Death to Bliss
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    Love and Accept It All: A Journey from Near Death to Bliss

    By Cristy Lynn Hayden MA B.Sc.

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    Cristy Lynn Hayden suffered a very severe brain injury as a result of a drunk driver crossing the median and hitting her car. Miraculously, she recovered fully from her brain injury and slowly created a life that has become more than she or anyone could have imagined. Join her journey and expect to be inspired to create your own blissful life.

    Inside this book you will discover the true gift of:
    Emerging from a coma,
    Rehabilitation,
    Recovering thanks to family and friends,
    Dark times,
    Emergence,
    A new beginning,
    A purposeful life,
    Spiritual realization,
    And a new understanding.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBalboa Press
    Release dateSep 28, 2011
    ISBN9781452537061
    Love and Accept It All: A Journey from Near Death to Bliss
    Author

    Cristy Lynn Hayden MA B.Sc.

    As a vibrant young adult, Cristy Hayden was involved in a severe car crash, resulting in her lying in a coma for a week. She awoke to learn that everything had changed: she couldn’t walk, she couldn’t talk, and she couldn’t return to the job she was dedicated to. Miraculously, she recovered fully from her injuries. She has since run two half-marathons, competed in speech contests, presented at career development conferences, and completed a master’s degree.

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      Love and Accept It All - Cristy Lynn Hayden MA B.Sc.

      Copyright © 2011 Cristy Lynn Hayden, MA, B.Sc.

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced by any means, graphic, electronic, or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, taping or by any information storage retrieval system without the written permission of the publisher except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews.

      Balboa Press books may be ordered through booksellers or by contacting:

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      Because of the dynamic nature of the Internet, any web addresses or links contained in this book may have changed since publication and may no longer be valid. The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

      The author of this book does not dispense medical advice or prescribe the use of any technique as a form of treatment for physical, emotional, or medical problems without the advice of a physician, either directly or indirectly. The intent of the author is only to offer information of a general nature to help you in your quest for emotional and spiritual well-being. In the event you use any of the information in this book for yourself, which is your constitutional right, the author and the publisher assume no responsibility for your actions.

      Any people depicted in stock imagery provided by Thinkstock are models, and such images are being used for illustrative purposes only.

      Certain stock imagery © Thinkstock.

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-3706-1 (e)

      ISBN: 978-1-4525-3705-4 (sc)

      Library of Congress Control Number: 2011913025

      Printed in the United States of America

      Balboa Press rev. date: 8/30/2011

      Contents

      Dedications

      Preface

      CHAPTER 1

      CHAPTER 2

      CHAPTER 3

      CHAPTER 4

      CHAPTER 5

      CHAPTER 6

      CHAPTER 7

      CHAPTER 8

      CHAPTER 9

      Dedications

      To my Mom and Dad, Marilyn and Don Hayden – For always, always, always believing in me and being there for me, unconditionally – Thank you.

      To Tara, Kathleen, George, and Stacey – Thank you for being there for me without me asking.

      Acknowledgements

      The catalyst and support for the creation of this book include the following people:

      Neale Donald Walsch

      Charlotte Rich

      Shannon Lyons

      My Goddess friends

      Thank You!!!

      Preface

      As a young adult of 24 years old, my life was turned inside out and upside down as the result of a severe car crash. This book is a work of creative non-fiction as the story you read will tell the tale of the experience I remember, the experience told by family and friends, and some I created; in order to make sense of the journey I previously experienced. Thankfully, I have fully recovered from my injuries although my memory of the initial stages of my recovery are limited and therefore framed by my family and friends. I share this journey of debilitating suffering to triumph as I want others to know that this transformation is possible.

      Each chapter includes the following:

      My memory of my experience from the injury

      My reflections many years later

      Affirmations for both you and me

      Questions to ponder

      CHAPTER 1

      The Gift of Emerging from a Coma – Never take your life for granted

      I am not what happens to me. I choose who I become.

      Carl Jung

      The Crash - 1994

      You might take for granted the simple things you do each day such as walking, talking, working, even smiling. Seventeen years ago I had the unthinkable experience of waking up from a coma, unable to do any of these things. The freedom of functioning independently had been stolen away from me in a split second.

      At twenty-four years old I was fresh out of University and I felt confident to take on the life of a responsible adult. At the time, I believed I had endless possibilities open to me. I had just started my first real career job and was expecting my career and personal life to take off in ways that a young adult triumphantly expects life to do.

      I was definitely taking things for granted … family and friends who were there for me without question; the great condo I had recently purchased; my newly framed Bachelor of Science degree; my new promising job with the provincial government; and also my health and fitness.

      I spent a week in a coma following a severe car crash. A drunk driver had crossed the median and hit my car head on. In shock and despair, members from my family arrived at the hospital, soon after the crash, and were told I had suffered a severe traumatic brain injury. They were told I was unconscious and would remain so for an unknown amount of time.

      It was also explained I had suffered a seizure while being transported to the hospital, which could complicate my recovery. The doctor chose to protect my family by not sharing the true severity of my injuries. We learned later that the doctor had measured my responsiveness using a Glascow Coma Scale. A patient’s eye, verbal, and motor responsiveness are tested to determine the severity of the brain injury. My coma scale score was extremely low. On a scale of being fully conscious (15) to near death (1), I was assessed at 3. If it were much lower, I would not be alive. The prognosis for my recovery was not good.

      It is disturbing to consider what I went through when the car crash took place.

      My body was held in place by my seat belt, but my brain was launched like a basketball, bouncing against my skull many times as the cars collided. When medical staff arrived in the ambulance, they immediately inserted a ventilator through my mouth to ensure I kept breathing and received an adequate supply of oxygen.

      Soon after, a Nasogastric (NG) tube was threaded through my nose to provide me with nutrition, and I was checked for other injuries such as broken bones. Medical staff checked for internal bleeding by inserting a tube into my abdomen, but internal bleeding was not discovered. Although I was badly bruised and had minor cuts, no other injuries were discovered, which meant the medical staff could place their full attention on monitoring my brain injury.

      Intensive Care

      Within the Intensive Care Unit, nurses and doctors hustled around and monitors beeped while my family and friends huddled by my bedside in the dimmed hospital ward. They held my bruised

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