Giving birth in chains — my day at the state capitol

This shouldn't be part of any woman's prison sentence.

What a day. It started with a really awful night.

Y'all know that my body has been through the wringer. There's the whole falling-of-the-cliff gig. There's the broken neck thing. And then there's the gave-birth-to-a-baby-with-a-15-inch-head incident, which tore my cervix, caused permanent damage to my lower spine and even made my hips hemorrhage internally. (Can they really do that? Yes. TMI? Sorry, I'm a journalist. There's never any such ...