My Birthday 03/03/1960

Great date & numbers to be born to March 3rd, 1960, 03/03/1960 or 3/3/60. A few days before I was born my Mommy was sitting at her vanity doing her morning beauty routine. The phone rang, Mommy answered and It was her Mommy, my Grandma Chiaiese. She was calling to ask how Mommy was feeling“? Mom mentioned she was extra tired but other wise okay. Grandma said she was coming over because she knows Mommy was in labor. Grandma always knew crazy thing like that.

Since the hospital was far out east on Long Island, NY in Mastic Beach (side note the hospital is not there any longer), the doctor decided it was probably a good idea that they make the drive sooner then later. So off they go with a very pregnant Mommy. Her doctor would meet them there.

Once they got there and met up with Mommy’s doctor it was determined she was indeed in labor. When Daddy got there the doctor was running around the lobby with an X-ray of me in Mommy’s belly shouting, “look at my baby, look at my baby”! My Daddy was there and he said, “sorry doc that is my baby”!

Everything was going fine until the doctor noticed Mommy’s labor was not progressing for delivery. It got to be five days, multiple shots to induce hard labor but Mommy’s labor didn’t progress so she couldn’t deliver. I was way down in the birth canal and was stuck. They have been monitoring my vitals and then they noticed there were no vitals for me so Mommy was rushed to the operating room for a emergency C-section. They told Mommy there were no vitals so then need to take the baby making her think her baby was dead. Poor Daddy once again had to sign papers when it came down to it to save Mommy very me. I want to make my thoughts on this very clear, I do not blame Daddy for his decisions in these cases.

I was born “Still Born” basically meaning I as born dead. The doctors were not going to give up so they performed shock treatment by emerging me in warm water to ice cold water. It took several minutes but it worked and brought me bake to life.

Mommy awoke from surgery and when Daddy came to see her she was very upset still thinking her baby died. My Daddy told her no that was not true that they have a beautiful baby girl & they named me Rose Marie.

One last side note, Mommy went into the hospital on a beautiful sunny Spring day and the day I was born there was a blizzard. The worsted in over 50 years and made headlines in all the papers.