A 34-year-old woman named Tammy Lewis used to hold the record for the smallest premature baby who'd ever survived in a Texas hospital. She was born three and a half months early in Temple, at Baylor Scott and White McLane Children’s Hospital. She weighed 1 pound 4 ounces at birth, but had some very good doctors and nurses, and survived. She was considered a micro preemie and her parents were told her chance of survival was between 5 and 10%. Obviously she made it, and became a nurse. She said she knew she wanted to work there when she first started training as a nurse.
The cool thing is--three decades later, some of the doctors and nurses that saved her actually STILL work at Baylor Scott and White McLane Children’s Hospital. She's a respiratory therapist in the neonatal intensive care unit. So she helps save other premature babies that wouldn't make it on their own.
Tammy says she hopes her story gives her patients' parents a little more hope.
There's even a poster in the hospital with her photo on it, so everyone knows her story.