By Sharmain GraingerIt wasn’t a premonition at all; in fact it was more a feeling of uneasiness that was gradually evolving into a sensation of total unwellness that overcame Nurse Verley Abrams-Rodrigues, one early Wednesday morning of 2002.She does not remember the precise date but the event that would unfold that day will forever be etched in her memory.Qualified as a Nursing Assistant, Verley was attached to the Kumaka District Hospital in Region One and was certainly not one to absent herself from work. However on the morning in question she was certain that heading to work was not physically possible so she decided to report sick.Nurse Verley Abrams-RodriguesAlthough unable to describe how she felt, she was certain that she had never felt that way before and certainly hasn’t since. The feeling was nothing short of eerie, she confided.But reporting sick that day was not a feasible option as she was required to accompany a gravely ill patient via medivac to the Georgetown Public Hospital.“I decided that day I wouldn’t go to work but one of my colleagues came and told me that it was my turn to do a patient escort and I must do so…I was insisting that I wasn’t feeling well and I couldn’t work,” related Verley during an interview with me.The patient, a young man from Assakata also in Region One, had suffered a bite from a poisonous snake. It would take about three days for him to travel to the Kumaka District Hospital by which time he was bleeding from every orifice in his body.However, perhaps it was her obligation to the nursing profession or the fact that a critically sick patient’s life was hanging in the balance, Verley, though against her physical will, decided to take on the mission.She remembers well boarding a twin-engine plane with the patient,Wholesale MLB Jerseys, who was strapped to a stretcher, along with two pilots. Before long the plane was airborne and they were en-route to the Ogle Airport. It was a while after take-off that the plane from all indication, started to develop mechanical problems, so much so, that both engines ‘shut-down’.Verley recalled being plunged into a state of shock as she observed the two pilots in what appeared to be a bout of confusion desperately trying to ascertain the problem. In their urgent bit to remedy the problem, the pilots began radioing for assistance but this quest proved to be futile. During this time the plane started a swift descent, nose first.“I just remember seeing this plane shooting downwards and I started thinking this was the end for me. I didn’t even have the strength to scream…all I started doing was begging God to spare my life to see my parents and son one more time,” said Verley who recalled how she was overwhelmed with fear.Confident that she and the others aboard the plane were destined to “crash and burn” Verley recalled how she decided to close her eyes as they swiftly approached rice fields, which from all indications appeared to be their last vision of earth.And as quickly as the plane started to descend, it was floating just above the rice fields and was soon ascending to the friendly skies.Realising that the plane had not crashed, Verley slowly opened her eyes and was instantly besieged with a mixture of relief and anxiety as she yearned for the plane to touchdown.They would arrive safely at the Ogle Airport where an ambulance was waiting to rush the patient to the public hospital.A few days after the journey, Verley was able to muster the courage to return to Kumaka and the same day decided to make the few miles journey to Waramuri to see her parents and son who was 10 years old at the time.Her arrival there would see her becoming an emotional wreck as she related what occurred on the plane. And as she shared her experience,NFL Jerseys Outlet, an expression of shock formed on her mother’s face, but it was one that, for some reason, suggested that she knew what had occurred. And indeed that was the proclamation of her mother – she knew!There was no way that could have been possible as her mother could not have known that she had travelled to the city; they were not in contact.But according to Verley, her mother began relating how she and her father were in their Nut Farm the same day when the plane,Jerseys NFL Wholesale, which appeared to be developing mechanical problems, passed. It was almost instantaneous that Verley’s mother got the distinct intuition that, not only was her daughter on the plane, but something troubling was afoot.Without delay, Verley’s mother shared her concern with her husband, but it would take three attempts for her to convince him to heed a request to pray for their daughter’s safety, since he was keen on getting his field work done.In fact it took a decision by Verley’s mother to firmly take her husband’s hand and appealed to him to p