G. Russell Gaynor
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From what I've been told, the chances for a woman successfully carrying full-term decrease with the passage of time. My mother had a number of pregnancies with most of them ending in either miscarriage or the infant not living 48 hours after birth.
My brother Jerome was born 11 months before me with liver cancer. It was predicted that he would not last six months. He managed seven years.
And when I was born, it was nearly two months premature with a condition of severe allergies that I battled through my youth. It was recommended that my parents pull down the drapes, rip up the carpet, and get me an oxygen tent to sleep in. That did not happen and last June, I said hello to my 54th birthday. While some foods still give me the dizzies and tighten my throat, I live in the pollen-laden South and though I do more than my fair share of crying and sneezing during the Summer, I pretty much manage pretty well.
After I was born my parents did not try again to have children, but I've always been struck by how the children lived longer as the pregnancies occurred. It's almost as if the 'agent' working against them having children wore off over time.
And, no, given the emotional turmoil people go through in losing a child, I don't have to look far for the heroes of my life!!!
From what I've been told, the chances for a woman successfully carrying full-term decrease with the passage of time. My mother had a number of pregnancies with most of them ending in either miscarriage or the infant not living 48 hours after birth.
My brother Jerome was born 11 months before me with liver cancer. It was predicted that he would not last six months. He managed seven years.
And when I was born, it was nearly two months premature with a condition of severe allergies that I battled through my youth. It was recommended that my parents pull down the drapes, rip up the carpet, and get me an oxygen tent to sleep in. That did not happen and last June, I said hello to my 54th birthday. While some foods still give me the dizzies and tighten my throat, I live in the pollen-laden South and though I do more than my fair share of crying and sneezing during the Summer, I pretty much manage pretty well.
After I was born my parents did not try again to have children, but I've always been struck by how the children lived longer as the pregnancies occurred. It's almost as if the 'agent' working against them having children wore off over time.
And, no, given the emotional turmoil people go through in losing a child, I don't have to look far for the heroes of my life!!!
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