Wikipedia

We all know that Wikipedia isn't the most trustworthy site to go look up information for school papers. I don't usually go on Wikipedia, but after talking with my parents about how I almost died when I was born due to a condition called PFC (Persistent Fetal Circulation), I became interested in this condition. I have known for years about my dramatic ordeal of a birth, but for some reason tonight I became really interested in researching it. I typed PFC into google, and clicked the first link I saw that had anything to do with it, which was Wikipedia. I scrolled down and I read something that said "The first infant to have survived PFC was so and so in so and so hospital in 1993." I stopped and had a WTF moment. I was born in 1992, a year before this kid,with PFC and survived. But I know this can't be true that even I was the first child to have survived PFC. I did some more searching, and came upon some experiment where doctors tested 40 infants for hearing loss who had PFC, and this was around 1984. It was cool to think for a second there that I may have been the first infant to have survived the condition PFC. PFC is basically when the baby is born, it fails to make the transition and thinks that it is still inside his/her mother's womb. When I was born I screamed once, and then stopped. I could not breath on my own and I had to be taken to another hospital in Macon, GA where they hooked me up to all kinds of tubes and IVs, and even put me in an induced coma so that I would not try to rip/tear all of the IVs out. One of the nurses did not set one of the IVs in my arm right and it slipped, causing whatever medicine that was inside it to leak out onto my skin, which caused a massive 3rd degree burn covering half of my arm. I saw a picture my mom took and my arm was literally like a rainbow. My mom had to scrub the dead skin off of my arm twice a day, until she got to the healthy pink skin. She couldn't bare to do it because I would cry my eyes out in pain, so she took me to the doctor so he could do it. My mom said she would wait outside of the room and cry because she could hear me crying. I was in the hospital for 2 weeks before I was good to come home. And the IV slipping causing the burn happened the night before I was to go home. My parents thought about sueing the hospital, and even got a lawyer, but they figured they would just drop the case, because they didn't want the doctor who worked so hard saving my life to be affected. They were grateful that I was alive and that was all that mattered. I have had this grizzly scar on my arm (right wrist) for my whole life. I don't even know how to describe what it looks like, but it is definitely interesting, and I guess my "trademark". It is what makes me unique, and I don't plan on getting cosmetic surgery in the future to "fix" it. To me it is normal, and that is the way it will stay with me. It is a reminder that life is a precious gift.