TIPS008: Miracle Mom, Miracle baby with Gina Walker

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TIPS008: Miracle Mom, Miracle baby with Gina Walker




Gina Walker is a former federal agent turned CEO and healthcare advocate. After surviving the miraculous birth of her youngest daughter she knew the Lord had placed her on a new path in life. March 2013 she founded the Hope for Accreta Foundation, a nonprofit helping women and families all across the globe that have been affected by Placenta Accreta. The Hope for Accreta Foundation is aimed at educating and bringing awareness to this life threatening condition

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Time Stamped Notes

  • 1.51 Gina was a border control agent, which took her to Texas for a short time
  • 2.17 Gina is a mother to three kids (ages 5-17 at the time of this initial recording)
  • 3.32 When pregnant with her 3rd child, Gina was diagnosed with the potentially life threatening placenta accreta, where basically the placenta begins attacking the mother’s body
  • 4.46 When in the hospital getting treated for accreta, Gina needed a blood transfusion and went through 540 units of donated blood (for major accidents like a head on motorcycle collision, the most the person usually will get is 40 units of blood—if the person even survives)
  • 5.06 Doctors predicted that when Gina woke up from the transfusion, she would be in a vegetable state
  • 5.35 The only major complication that Gina was left with was blindness in her left eye
  • 7.09 Gina’s youngest daughter was born prematurely but is in perfect health
  • 9.09 Gina counts her faith in God as something that helped her get through the trauma of living through a battle with placenta accreta
  • 13.42 Accreta happens in 1 in every 333 pregnancies in the U.S.
  • 23.30 Gina has been working in a juvenile detention center for the past 3 years, working to help troubled youth
  • 25.54 Gina empathizes and sympathizes with people with addiction issues, because she recently quit smoking and has an addictive personality in a multitude of ways
  • 30.57 If someone made a movie of Gina’s life, Gina would cast Sheryl Crow in the title role (find out more fun facts about Gina in the Quick Fire Round)

 

Key points

  • A support system is key to living through and surviving and thriving in the aftermath of major trauma
  • Tragedy CAN have the ability to bring people together of different backgrounds and walks of life—if we choose. It can also tear relationships apart—if we choose
  • In many cases we can show people how to make meaning from trauma, by simply showing (not telling) how we made it through our own traumatic experience(s)

 

Resources or Websites Mentioned

Gina’s website: www.hopeforaccreta.org