Sponsored by In the summer of 2000, Shawna was a 30-year-old mom with a 3-year-old daughter and a newborn son. While pushing her kids in a stroller on the way to watch a parade, she suddenly felt faint. “One minute I’m walking down the street with my kids, and the next I'm on the ground,” Shawna remembers. At the time, she chalked up the feeling to exhaustion. Her husband was deployed with the military, and she was parenting two kids on her own.