What You Probably Don't Know About Me!

In the spirit of Halloween and all things strange, allow me to share with you something you probably don't know about me.
My mom always hoped to give birth to twins and when she became pregnant with me (her fourth and last pregnancy) she felt pretty certain that she was indeed pregnant with twins. Well, you've probably guessed it -- she wasn't . . . or was she?
Over the years we've discovered a few odd things about this body of mine, let me share.

Exhibit A:
When I was three years old I went in for what was supposed to be kidney surgery, but when the doctors opened me up, they actually found that I had extra tubing of some sort. They fixed it, hooked it all up correctly and here I am today. Extra tubing? Enough for two?
Exhibit B:
Take a look at your hands. Everyone that I have ever known has the same main lines in each of their hands -- everyone except for me.

As you can see my left hand has three significant main lines, while my right hand has only two main lines. Mismatched hands? Hmmmmm, very unusual!
Exhibit C:
Back in high school I had all four of my wisdom teeth extracted, but a few years ago I began feeling something growing in the back of my mouth. I went back to the same dentist who then took x-rays and pronounced that I indeed had an extra tooth with roots growing -- something he had never seen in his professional career. Now that we've moved away I have another dentist who is just as amazed at my "extra tooth." Over this past year the tooth has been chipping away and falling out and just a couple weeks ago it finally came all the way out. Am I growing teeth for two?

Now I'm no doctor or scientist, but I have heard that a woman can be pregnant with twins in the beginning, but that one baby/embryo is stronger than the other and basically "absorbs" the other and you end up with a single birth, which in my case is, ME.

My good friend, Jesica, says she saw a show on this sort of thing. A woman and her children had to have DNA testing so that she could prove paternity and when the results came back her DNA wasn't in her children. After more extensive testing they discovered that she must have indeed been a twin in the womb and that the "other" twins DNA was what passed through to her children. The doctors concluded that this sort of thing probably happened more often, but no one is aware since people don't usually get their DNA tested.

Far-fetched, possibly. Crazy, maybe. Food for thought, sure! Topic of interesting conversation, definitely!