COVER STORY

31st Ann Arbor
Winter Art Fair

(conti nued from page 15)

Nov. 20 & 21, 2004

Sat. 10am-6pm
Sun.11am-5pm

Washtenaw Farm
Council Grounds

5055 Ann Arbor-Saline Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI

K McClelland

fiber

I & S Hutson

clay

Easy access from 1-94, Ann
Arbor-Saline Road (#175).
Turn South and follow signs
to the Washtenaw Farm
Council Grounds.

scrimshaw

E & T Cooper

WS Parshall

D Edwards.

photograPhy

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NOVEMBER 2004 •

JNPLATINUM

Last November, I expe-
rienced my own personal
miracle.
I was 23 weeks preg-
nant when I went to the
hospital with what I
thought was the flu. I was
diagnosed with a heart
tumor and I went into con-
gestive heart failure.
A few days later, at the
University of Michigan
Medical Center, I was
placed on a life support
system called ECM() and
I delivered my second
daughter, who was unable
to survive my trauma.
While on ECMO, I had
a seizure and my family
was told to make my final
arrangements. They
refused to give up, as did
I; and after three more
open-heart surgeries and
months of rehabilitation, I
am completely healed.
The doctors tell me I
am like an urban legend at
Stuart Sohvay, former Peace Corps volunteer, dawns on his
patio, while his young daughter, Kayla, plays_
the hospital and definitely
nothing short of a miracle.
West Bloomfield.
My two daughters saved my life
In 1990, my son, Smart, was a
— my 3-year-old daughter, Allison,
senior at the University of
who was in my mind every second
Michigan. Being president of his
of the journey, and my unborn
Civil Engineering Society, he
daughter, Lindsay, who was the
arranged for a speaker each month.
reason I ended up in the hospital in
One month, he invited a Peace
the first place.
Corps
worker to speak, and guess
Since this event, people I don't
who decided to join the Peace
even know tell me they prayed for
Corps? My son! He wanted to help
me, and they had never prayed
a third-world country live better.
before in their life. People have
Stuart was sent to Kenya. The
told me they never believed in mir-
big city was Nairobi, but he chose
acles, but now they do.
to live in a small rural area called
I know my family and I believe
Kakamaga, where there was less
— I am living proof.
crime.
One day, my husband had a
patient
in his office, Dr. Harrison
THIRD PLACE WINNER:
Muyiha, who mentioned that he
was from Kenya, from a small town
near Nairobi called Kakamaga. His
Jeanette Solway of West Bloomfield
sister
lived there and he gave us
receives a $200 gift certificate from
her name. I called my son and told
Tapper's Diamonds & Fine Jewelry in