Hot Like Ebola!!!: [Several] Facts About Me in [Several] Days

Alright, so I know that almost everybody who's blogged for more than 6 months has done one of those "100 things about me" memes. Since I have been blogging for more than 3 years, I kinda feel like doing it. However, I do not want to sit at the computer long enough to to come up with 100 things nobody really wants to read.

So instead, I will do one of those "100 Things in 100 Days" things. Except, I don't know if I'll get to 100. And I don't know if it will take me 100 days.

Here goes:

Fact # 1: My birth was the result of a magical premonition.

When mom was a few weeks pregnant, dad took her to Las Vegas. While they were there, they went to see a show by Siegfried and Roy. Dad was apparently buddybuddy with them (he did, after all, work as a limo driver), so he took mom up to meet them after the show.

As Siegfried was hugging mom, she mentioned she was pregnant, and Siegfried said, "Wow! Twins are going to change your life!"

She laughed and said she was just having one, but he shook his head and said, "Well, I would tell the doctors to look more carefully."

At the next ultrasound, the doctors exclaimed with surprise when they found another heartbeat. Since I was the 2nd one out of the womb, we've always said that I was the one Siegfried was talking about.

Fact number 2: I was born in three hospitals, as the story goes.

My mom went into labor with us twins about 7 weeks early. She went to the hospital (#1), where they told here that she needed an emergency C-section, since my brother's water had broken several hours hence and I was still chillin' comfortably in the sac.

Unfortunately, hospital 1 did not have the resources for a high risk preemie twins C-section. They transported mom to hospital #2, where they performed the C-section and removed us little buggers. However, hospital #2 did not have the high-tech neonatal ICU that my poor shriveled brother required (I was small, but healthy enough for a regular incubator).

So, hospital #2 transported mom and us twins to hospital #3, where remained until we could go home.

To this day, my brother insists I was healthier in the womb because I "stole all the apple juice" mom was drinking.

:: submitted by Jenevieve, 9:56 PM
id="comments">4 Comments:

I'd forgotten your womb-mate stories. yay for fun facts.