Welcome to the blog for Prof. John Talbird's English 221 class. The purpose of this site is two-fold: 1) to continue the conversations we start in class (or to start conversations BEFORE we get to class) and 2) to practice our writing/reading on a weekly basis in an informal forum.

Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Did a twin survive?

Life can be like a roller coaster sometimes fast, sometimes slow, sometimes high, sometimes low.  "You gotta take the good with the bad", life has it's ups and downs.  Things in your life come and go but you keep going. As you rise and dip some things happen so fast that they are just a "blip on your radar", whether significant or not.

The "event" the death of the fetus is something that was "told" so clearly a "down" on the metaphorical ride but such a quick "blip" that the news of it is already after the fact and in the past... BUT of course that has I lasting effect emotionally not to mention the physical presence that still will need to expel itself or actually be removed medically.

Is it possible that there are twins having two different points of view in the womb?  Can one of the twins possibly be speaking as narrator while the other is unaware of the circumstances...

Clearly a victim of the loss of a child prior to birth, faced with questions of "what if", riddled with guilt and/or resentment for child that never lived as well as the ill feelings and sentiments towards the child that apparently lived.  A twin maybe?  The initial shock of the news became depression as the shock and numbness wears off.  She gets the full blast of pain as the reality sets in, that depression intensifies.  Many emotions will come and go through cycles and/or return from time to time.

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