Cynthia's appendix surgery nearly killed her. The surgeon said she would have died without it. Twenty-seven days later, she gave a public talk that changed her life and reached millions of viewers.
In fact, the surgeon, after I had my appendix out 6 weeks after this hospitalization, she actually said to me, "If you had been any other patient, you would have died." Like literally said, "You would have died." And so it really left me with this tremendous responsibility that if I was going to continue living, then I was never going to think small. If I was gonna have any intentions, setting intentions, and of course, 27 days after I was hospitalized, I went on to do a talk that of course changed the trajectory of my life, my family's life, obviously millions of people that watched that talk. And I just think that there are zero coincidences. I have never felt more despondent than I was during that hospitalization because I felt like if I had no idea that my health was changing in response to declining hormones. How can I expect my patients to know? But it also left me with incredible hope that God does have a plan, that sometimes it's not entirely clear in the moment. But certainly for myself, I left feeling like there was a Cynthia before that hospitalization in March— February and March of 2019— and there was the Cynthia after.
