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Relationship => Marriage & Family Life => Topic started by: theking on March 28, 2019, 12:42:50 AM

Title: Talk about full circle
Post by: theking on March 28, 2019, 12:42:50 AM

Once the smallest baby born in Texas, she works as a Nurse in NICU of hospital that saved her life now

(https://news4sanantonio.com/resources/media/77a95d1a-eaf1-48b8-a360-fa55c1680667-large16x9_tammylewis1.jpg?1553311300158)

TEMPLE, Texas — When Tammy Lewis was born, she was 3 1/2 months early and weighed in at only 1 pound 4 ounces. Her family faced the harsh reality their newborn's survival rate was 5-10%.

But Lewis beat the odds and now, 34 years later, she works in the same NICU that saved her life.

"I was the smallest surviving baby in the state of Texas, at the time," Lewis said. "I was born at 24 weeks. Normal gestation is 40 weeks."

Years later, she works alongside some of the same doctors and nurses who treated her as an infant.

"I wanted to be able to give back to the patients and families in the same situation that I was in," said Lewis.

Title: Re: Talk about full circle
Post by: YAX on March 28, 2019, 08:52:18 AM

Born that small and young and not suffer major brain damage.  That's a miracle, alright.

Title: Re: Talk about full circle
Post by: Dok_Champa on March 28, 2019, 09:53:14 AM

I would considered myself a miracle baby too.  I was a very small baby from what my mother told me.  She said I was so tiny she could hold me in one hand and didn't know how to bathe or feed me.  My mouth was so tiny..

Title: Re: Talk about full circle
Post by: VillainousHero on March 30, 2019, 01:45:35 AM

When I was born, I didn't even had a head... >:D

It's a miracle I even grew one.

Title: Re: Talk about full circle
Post by: YAX on March 31, 2019, 08:39:39 AM

Quote from: VillainousHero on March 30, 2019, 01:45:35 AM

When I was born, I didn't even had a head... >:D

It's a miracle I even grew one.

yeah, I read about cases like that when I was younger.  People thought the babies were girls and gave them girl names but later on, the head popped out along with the shaft and now they're boys with girl names.  Google it if you wanna read the details.   There was a term for it: Guevedoces.

Title: Re: Talk about full circle
Post by: VillainousHero on May 29, 2019, 02:23:46 PM

Quote from: YAX on March 31, 2019, 08:39:39 AM

yeah, I read about cases like that when I was younger.  People thought the babies were girls and gave them girl names but later on, the head popped out along with the shaft and now they're boys with girl names.  Google it if you wanna read the details.   There was a term for it: Guevedoces.

LOL...dang...I think of Disney's bambi...What's your name?  Flower.