The surgeon asked for my son’s blood type, and I confidently answered, “O positive—same as me and his father.” Then the lab came back with B negative. I thought it was a mistake until I discovered another boy had been born at the same hospital just 24 minutes after my son. When we uncovered what happened during a 2015 records merger, we learned that two families had been raising the wrong sons for 17 years.
My son needed emergency surgery for appendicitis. It should have been a terrifying but straightforward night. Instead, one question from the surgeon turned my entire life upside down. “What’s his …
The surgeon asked for my son’s blood type, and I confidently answered, “O positive—same as me and his father.” Then the lab came back with B negative. I thought it was a mistake until I discovered another boy had been born at the same hospital just 24 minutes after my son. When we uncovered what happened during a 2015 records merger, we learned that two families had been raising the wrong sons for 17 years. Read More
