Mother! pencil drawing 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 the way to where she is now is
something that few have encountered!
When
she was 14, 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 stay 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
drudgery and monotony. Hospital life was all about tests, and more
tests and pain and more pain, and, worst of all, 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 then and where she was going;
and sometimes it seemed she wasn’t moving at all. But, she was
moving, for she had hope and belief on her side! And she knew that
she would one day walk out as a whole and healthy person.
And, that's exactly what happened.
But,
first came the liver transplant.
After many long days of waiting she
was finally given
a new chance in life. The operation had been a perfect success, but,
there was something else, too! Whilst under the knife something
unforgettable happened.
It
was an out-of-body experience. Whilst floating, calmly from above she saw all that was happening! There was
something so moving, so totally fine, and so unexplainably confirming
about this wonderful experience. She knew that her hope and her faith
had not been in vain. Her life was beginning again.
And,
coming back meant
another kind of struggle. She had finished her school without
anything at all, and getting an education wasn’t
easy, but, without it, she would never have become the surgeon she
now is. But, something else happened as well. Something dramatic! She
was told that becoming a mother would be out of the question!
This was fortunately wrong. She now has two very healthy boys and a super man at her side! The impossible happened. Alexandra Lanz became the first woman on earth to give birth to a child after having had a liver transplant! She is not only a woman of history, but an example for others as well.
This was fortunately wrong. She now has two very healthy boys and a super man at her side! The impossible happened. Alexandra Lanz became the first woman on earth to give birth to a child after having had a liver transplant! She is not only a woman of history, but an example for others as well.
Alexandra
not only discovered that
there is a life after life, but, and, much more importantly, there
is also a life before death! Being alive is the greatest of all!
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Westbahnhof - Vienna - March 2014
Looking Down - Vienna - March 2014
All
pictures by Nigel A JAMES
