Mess told fire-rescue communications officer Karen Johnson that she didn't have any towels. I wasn't on the phone for five minutes and I could already see her." ![]() "They asked if I could see the baby's head and if I had towels," Mess said. Parked near the entrance to a subdivision at Crystal Cove Road, Mess ran around to help her daughter as she called 911. She was in a lot of pain and that last contraction was a bad one, and she just wanted to get on the ground." "She had the door open and was out of the car before I had completely stopped. "I had gotten about halfway between Atlantic and Beach boulevards when she told me her water had broken," Mess said. Mess dressed her daughter's 11/2-year-old girl, then helped Perry into the car and they headed to Jacksonville Beach on San Pablo Road around 8:30 a.m. when her daughter told her the contractions had begun. Mess, 38, a manager at McDonald's, was at their home off Interstate 295 and Normandy Boulevard at 8 a.m. "My mom tried to hurry and get me here, and the last contraction I had, the baby was here," she said. Speaking from her Baptist Medical Center-Beaches room with new baby nearby, she said the adoptive parents were already there. I wouldn't do it as a profession, but I would do it again."Īs for Perry, 22, she admits it wasn't the way she had planned the birth, but it doesn't change her decision to give up the 7-pound, 2-ounce child for adoption. Now that my nerves have calmed down, I feel pretty good. "I was out there in my sports bra and shorts delivering my grandbaby," Mess said. Caught without swaddling clothes or even a towel, Mess used her shirt. “I love those mountains, they’re my favorite,” she said.It was a decision that Christina Perry of Jacksonville had thought through for months, to give up her second child for adoption to a loving local family.īut the baby girl didn't wait to get to the hospital before she arrived Monday, literally on San Pablo Road - right into grandmother Mildred Mess' waiting hands. While a student at South Jordan’s Valley High School, she had an uncredited role in a 2000 episode of the TV series “Touched by an Angel.” She trained at Hale Centre Theatre, did some more TV filmed in Utah, including three more “Touched by an Angel” episodes and one of the crime series “Cover Me,” and appeared in a low-budget movie, “Jumping for Joy,” before relocating to Hollywood permanently.īesides “God Bless the Broken Road,” Pulsipher recently finished her recurring role on the USA Network series “Shooter” and in an independent film, “Once Upon a River.” She’s written a short film that she hopes to shoot this fall in Idaho.Īnd she aims to get home to Utah soon. Pulsipher’s acting career began on a heavenly note. (Pulsipher is one of six siblings raised by parents who were members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but she deflects questions about her own beliefs.) “More than this is a ‘faith-based’ film, it’s a feel-good story … and an inspirational story,” she said. She’s uncomfortable with the “faith-based” label. “The realness of the story was very appealing to me.” ![]() It’s a situation that a lot of people could easily relate to,” Pulsipher said. “The story felt very authentic and true to life. And while “God Bless the Broken Road” talks about God and faith, Pulsipher said it’s more grounded than most “faith-based” films. The movie is directed by Harold Cronk, who made the pro-Christian polemics “God’s Not Dead” and “God’s Not Dead 2” - both featuring characters shouting arguments about the existence or nonexistence of God. It’s something the nephews could see and get excited about.” ![]() The cast includes Kim Delaney (“NYPD Blue”) as Amber’s mother-in-law, Robin Givens and 2007 “American Idol” winner Jordin Sparks as her church friends, and Hall of Fame running back LaDainian Tomlinson as her pastor.Īfter such dark roles as in “True Blood” and “Hatfields & McCoys,” Pulsipher said, “this kind of warm, fuzzy, feel-good movie really spoke to me. At the same time, a cocky stock-car racer, Cody Jackson, arrives in town to learn some life lessons from a crusty driving coach, Joe Carter (Gary Grubbs). As the movie begins, Amber is fighting a lone battle against poverty, having decided to stay away from the community church where she was once the choir director. I really liked the transformative journey with Amber.”Īmber, Pulsipher’s character, is struggling to raise her daughter, Bree (Makenzie Moss), on her waitress wages and survivor benefits from her husband, an Army sergeant killed in Afghanistan. This was a genre that I’d never done before. “I want to do as many different types of projects as I can. “I really like to diversify,” Pulsipher said in a recent phone interview.
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