LAME DEER — As Crystal Hiwalker plays with the 3-week-old puppies outside of her rural home in Lame Deer, she is grateful to still be alive.
Hiwalker said embracing life, finding the beauty in everything and being a better person is what she has done every day for the last five years after the winter of 2019, when she technically died multiple times.
From what Hiwalker remembers from the day that changed her life, she was loading wood when she first started to faint. She fainted again while driving home. She called her husband who told her to go to the doctor.
“We ended up finding out I was pregnant and then (the doctor) was saying it was an ectopic pregnancy. He told me that I was bleeding and that they needed to get me to Billings…
