I’d like to think my birth was this glorious event, beckoning several beams of lights from the heavens and celebrated by many from near and far, similar to Hercules. In reality it was more like a screaming lady trying with all her will to push out a lump of organs that just so happened to slightly resemble a human being. I was born on August 16, 1999 in the Birthing Center at Mount Caramel East Hospital at 6:59 a.m.
Birthing can be a whirlwind of varying emotions and mindsets or so I’ve heard, personally I wouldn’t really know. My mother told me that it was a very long and painful experience totaling a time of nine hours. She was excited to get me out so she could hold me, but that didn’t stop the fact that labor is not a fun experience and …show more content…
I was born on a Monday but the day prior, Sunday, had various events of varying impacts. At 11:18 p.m. a very strange and controversial event took place; a light brighter than daylight was shone in the southwest United States for approximately 2-3 seconds. On the same day the Backstreet Boys sold approximately 765,000 concert tickets. An earthquake hit Turkey that same day which hit a death toll of more than 4,000 people. The Columbine High School students returned to classes that same day for the first time since the shooting massacre that occurred four months prior, but two swastikas were found drawn in a girls’ restroom. Also that day the Red Hot Chili Peppers performed a concert in Spodek, Katowice, Poland. Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, was announced as prime minister of Russia as well. A massacre occurred in Beni Ounif, Béchar Province, Algeria near the Moroccan Border. Guerillas had stopped a bus at a fake roadblock and killed around 29 people, which caused a strain and tensions between Algeria and Morocco. The national anthem of Japan was played that same day for the first time since World War 2 in honor of the country’s war dead. Most of these events that occurred around the time of my birth were important in their own varying ways, as was my
Birthing can be a whirlwind of varying emotions and mindsets or so I’ve heard, personally I wouldn’t really know. My mother told me that it was a very long and painful experience totaling a time of nine hours. She was excited to get me out so she could hold me, but that didn’t stop the fact that labor is not a fun experience and …show more content…
I was born on a Monday but the day prior, Sunday, had various events of varying impacts. At 11:18 p.m. a very strange and controversial event took place; a light brighter than daylight was shone in the southwest United States for approximately 2-3 seconds. On the same day the Backstreet Boys sold approximately 765,000 concert tickets. An earthquake hit Turkey that same day which hit a death toll of more than 4,000 people. The Columbine High School students returned to classes that same day for the first time since the shooting massacre that occurred four months prior, but two swastikas were found drawn in a girls’ restroom. Also that day the Red Hot Chili Peppers performed a concert in Spodek, Katowice, Poland. Vladimir Putin, a former KGB officer, was announced as prime minister of Russia as well. A massacre occurred in Beni Ounif, Béchar Province, Algeria near the Moroccan Border. Guerillas had stopped a bus at a fake roadblock and killed around 29 people, which caused a strain and tensions between Algeria and Morocco. The national anthem of Japan was played that same day for the first time since World War 2 in honor of the country’s war dead. Most of these events that occurred around the time of my birth were important in their own varying ways, as was my