Every Monday, my twins\u2014Jesse in dinosaur pajama bottoms, Lila in a glittery tutu\u2014would wait barefoot at the curb for the garbage truck. Rashad and Theo, our sanitation crew, always arrived like rockstars\u2014honks, high fives, even letting the kids pull the lever once. Monday mornings became sacred.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then came that<\/em> Monday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019d felt off all weekend\u2014lightheaded, shaky\u2014but pushed through. Their dad was away for work, and I was juggling it all alone. I set out the trash\u2026 and the next thing I remember is waking up in the ER.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here\u2019s what happened while I was unconscious on my kitchen floor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The twins went outside as usual. When Rashad and Theo arrived, they saw my kids standing alone, crying. Without hesitation, one stayed with them while the other banged on my door\u2014then broke it open.<\/p>\n\n\n\n They found me collapsed, called 911, called my husband, and kept my kids safe. Lila wore Theo\u2019s safety vest. Jesse got a \u201cshotgun\u201d ride in the truck to distract him until help came.<\/p>\n\n\n\n When I woke up, the nurse told me, \u201cThey\u2019re with their heroes.\u201d \u2014 \u2014 \u2014 continues in the first \ud83d\udde8\ufe0f\u2b07\ufe0f<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Every Monday, my twins\u2014Jesse in dinosaur pajama bottoms, Lila in a glittery tutu\u2014would wait barefoot at the curb for the garbage truck. Rashad and Theo, our sanitation… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/storytimebuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
And then she added something that still makes my breath catch\u2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n