Twins @ MindSay

2 days ago I felt like my body was being torn apart. I doubled over from the hot seering pain that burned within and felt like it was taking my left arm off. For 10 minutes I writhed in pain. And then it stopped as suddenly as it started. I was left with a slight pain in my chest and a strange sence of emptiness. Of course my fiance took me to the nearest emergency room. With my heart trouble he thought I was having heart failure and dying. And it felt like that. For those ten minutes it truly felt like I was. But at the hospital,all they found out was that my heart was beating erratically, but it was doing as okay as it could be. That left just one other option. My twin brother,Banner.

Banner is an infantry member. And one of 5 siblings over seas. He was married when he was on leave 4 months ago, and his first children is due early next year.

And I knew at that moment that he had died. Eight hours before Ma called us because she had been notified, I knew. I knew the minute That pain cleared up. Somehow there is that twin-twin bond that everyone talks about, but I never really believed. It had never happened before. But it truly feels like part of me is dead too!

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Gee... talk about stomach pains... And this is awful, but all I can think of is that South Park episode with the nurse who had a dead fetus attached to her head.

9 year old's twin found in stomach

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080515/D90M2C9O0.html

May 15, 7:58 AM (ET)

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.

Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo about six centimeters (more than two inches) long.

"They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn't suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo," hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said.

The girl has made a full recovery, he said.

Andreas Markou, head of the hospital's pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.

Markou said cases where one of a set of twins absorbs the other in the womb occurs in one of 500,000 live births.

The girl's family did not want to be identified, hospital officials said.

To the great unknown,

My name is rachel and I am a stay at home mom to a 15 month old....and I just found out i was pregnant (possibly with twins!!!!) and I am terrified.  I bearly have enough energy for my daughter...Im not sure what I am going to do...I suppose only time will tell.