Alexandra Lanz photo by Nigel A. JAMES
.Suspended Realities
Alexandra Lanz is unique! She is young, she’s a mother, she’s a surgeon, and, above all else, she’s alive! And, being that way is the one thing about her that’s special! For her way to where she is now is something that few have encountered!
When she was 14 years old, she experienced a trauma that stopped her life in its tracks! After collapsing a school, she was taken to hospital with a suspected liver complaint. She was to remain there for the next five years!
Her stay in hospital was not only a period of suffering and despair, but also a time when the future stayed hidden and well out of reach behind a curtain of drudge and monotony. Hospital life was all about tests, and more tests and pain and more pain, and, worse still, time never ending. And her youth, her best time of all, was draining away, and, there was nothing she could do!
She was in a state of suspension, hanging somewhere between how she was before, and where the future was taking her; and it seemed as if she wasn’t moving at all. But, she was moving, for she had one very strong thing on her side, she had hope!
It was her hope that gave her the strength that she needed to believe. And the thing that she believed in was her conviction that she would, one day, walk out of the ward as a whole and healthy person. And, true enough, that one fine day really did come!
But, first came the transplant. After many long days of waiting and debating and considering, Alexandra eventually got given a new life. Her liver transplant operation was a perfect success; and, it was whilst lying under the knife, that something happened to her that she will never forget.
It was an out-of-body experience! There she was, floating calmly above herself and watching all that was happening! This was something so moving and so totally fine and unexplainably confirming. She knew that her hope and her faith had not been in vain; and, she also understood that her life was beginning again.
Coming back to life meant another kind of struggle. She had finished her first life with out anything. Her new life was one full of action. Getting an education wasn’t easy, but, without it, she would never have been able to study medicine and become the surgeon that she now is. But, there is something else, too, which she is now, and this is because of a miracle!
She was told her that becoming a mother would be out of the question! Well, she now has two very healthy boys and a super man at her side! The impossible happened. Alexandra Lanz is the first woman on earth who gave birth to a child after having had a liver transplant! She is not only a woman of history, but an example for others to follow, as well.
Alexandra discovered that there is, in fact, a life after life, and - also - a life before death, too!
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