The Little Engine That Did It - My first memoir

Due to the fact that I was so small and such a low birth weight, I was an incubator for six weeks I also had jaundice. My father would visit me in the preemie nursery every day on his way home from work, and he made a chart where he could keep track of my birth weight and I only found out about this years later when I was 25 and my mother came in to my bedroom and she said to me I want to show you how much of a softy your father is, she gave me a business size envelope and it was yellow and inside this envelope was a paper folded in threes she unfolded it and handed it to me and said this was your birth weight chart that your father made up and each day he tracked it and on July 15 1962 there was a big star on it, because on that day I had gained enough weight in the nursery on my parents to take me home.

After being baptized twice, and also given last rights twice in the preemie nursery my parents were finally allowed to take me home I had survived if you asked by grandparents why that was the case they would say it was because of a miracle from God if you ask my parents it was because of medical science perhaps it is a little bit was a little bit of both.

All I know is that I was a spiritual being it came through the birth canal and was born through my mother to begin this life experience little did I know what an adventure and how many hills and valleys I would have to go through that would lead me to understanding my life purpose.

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