HHT – Page 3 – My Big Little Miracle

6. Infant Girl and HHT

At some point, I feel like I’m going to need to split the two parts of this story like a fork in the road. One will follow the path toward my birth record and birth family, and the other will follow what becomes my new medical journey. That will probably need to begin with theContinue reading “6. Infant Girl and HHT”

5. Messaging and Meeting

I sent messages to two brothers and one sister of “Lori”‘s. I told them that I had been doing some work on Ancestry.com, which had linked me to one of their nephews. Then I explained that a further search led me to his father (their brother) and an obituary for their sister. After that, IContinue reading “5. Messaging and Meeting”

4. A Cousin and an Obituary

On the afternoon that I had given my Ancestry login ID to Bridget, I headed off to the grocery. It was a gray Sunday. As I was pulling into my driveway, my phone rang through my car. It was Bridget. “Don’t kill me”, she said, “but I found two cousins, and sent messages to bothContinue reading “4. A Cousin and an Obituary”

3. Bridget

More than five, but less than ten years ago, I switched hairdressers. My new (and current) hairdresser’s name is Bridget. I came to know of her years before, because I had worked with her mom. Actually, I was her mom’s preceptor (mentor/trainer) when she was a new nurse in the Birthing Center where we worked.Continue reading “3. Bridget”

2. 1994

Since the last blog entry, I’ve spent some time really trying to remember anything about when it became important to me to search for my birth history. Despite my efforts, I can’t recall anything specific. There’s no moment, occasion, conversation, or period of time that comes to mind. What I do remember, though, are aContinue reading “2. 1994”

1. Knowing

Over the past months, I’ve gone back and forth and all over the place about how and where to begin this story. Although it’s true that pieces of it were coming together long before I was aware of it, it didn’t make sense to me to try to start there. Too many people that wouldContinue reading “1. Knowing”