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Topic: When all else fails, lean into breath, gratitude and most importantly, love Guest Melissa Santos Casey-A young wife and mother, who had always been healthy, felt hopeful that her future would be robust. She knew she had so many reasons to live, yet found herself witnessing the final moments of her own life just five hours after the birth of her second child. What had gone so wrong that several hours after holding her newborn son and celebrating his healthy arrival with her husband, caused her to take her last breath during an event such as sudden cardiac arrest? For three and half hours doctors, nurses and other essential hospital staff members worked tirelessly to revive her lifeless body. They labored to uncover what horrible thing had happened that would potentially strip two children of a mother who dearly wanted and needed to be there for them. After rounds of CPR, defibrillation and other interventions, she was stable enough to be moved to a nearby trauma center and placed into a medically ind