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Hi!!!! I am a big fan and I even bought your book. I feel like we have a lot in common, except you have a lot more experience than me. I'm just starting out. I live in AL where you have to go to school and do your two year apprenticeship at the same time so that's what I'm doing. We also have a crematory at our funeral home so I totally get the chapters on starting work at the crematory AND the one on kids. What I really want to know and haven't seemed to get a good answer on, and have no experience with is embalming pregnant women. What do you do at various stages of pregnancy in women that you are embalming? Do you just aspirate and fill the womb with cavity fluid or do you need to do more? I would really appreciate your response. Again, I'm a huge fan. Initially I thought you just wanted attention but I love how you are really bringing what most people consider a taboo subject to light and hopefully encouraging more people to have more to do with their dead.

Do you practice before you record?

Do you actually follow along with the story (for lack of a better word) in your mind when you read or do you focus on the words?

I am bipolar and I have a really good friend who is (might be self diagnosed but I firmly believe she is) bipolar. I am working hard to be responsible and be honest with my doctor about my moods and stay stable. Especially since my stint in the hospital in January 2014.

She, on the other hand, lies to her dr, saying that she has narcolepsy so that he will prescribe her things to stay awake. These things keep her in hypo mania almost constantly and other than just crashing here and there where she just cries (its more like throwing a tantrum) for a night, she is managing to stay in hypo mania. She is excelling at her job (winning national sales awards in a small community), hardly has to sleep, exercising like crazy, and she is on point with everything. Is this ever going to catch up to her? I'm worried, and a little jealous since it seems like she gets to keep all the good, fun parts while I had to give them up for the sake of responsibility and keeping my family together. I do notice that her husband seems sick of having to deal with her all the time but that's about it.

So if you could help someone look at life the way you do now, without them having to face death, what would you tell them?