Quote Originally Posted by Pike View Post
I was born with a heart that was backwards and had a hole in it. It also promptly grew to the size of a full grown man's heart because it was working overtime to overcome the leak and feed blood to my body. I was saved by poison (literally - foxglove stops your heart, so they gave me just enough to slow it down) and some other potent chemicals and then a blood clot stopped up the hole.

To this day all the tubing and wiring in my heart is backwards, though.

edit: also my mom is SUPER blonde and I was born with a headful of super dark hair so everywhere we went people thought that I was adopted from Korea or something
That is crazy, I'm very glad they were able to sort that stuff out! Doctors do smart things.