The Doctors Forced Me To Save Only One Of My Twin Sisters

hi my name is amelia and recently i had to make the most difficult decision of my life even now just thinking about it i feel like i could burst into tears up until last year my life was so carefree and chilled and then out of nowhere both of my twin sisters got sick at exactly the same time i was the only one who could save them i mean that's a pretty terrifying thing but there's more you see i could only save one of them and so that's where my story begins my family has always been that stereotypical perfect family my parents are still crazy in love with each other and me and my sisters are like best friends I have two sisters Beth and Carly and they're identical twins they're only 3 years younger than me and you'd think I'd feel a bit left out sometimes because they have that a whole twin thing going on but they treat me like I'm one of them which is great last year we vowed to spend a lot of time together because I was going to be heading to college on the other side of the country my dad planned this epic road trip and a week before we were due to go Beth started feeling really unwell she woke up in the middle of the night drenched in sweat and her fever was sky-high by the time morning came carly started complaining that her stomach hurt and pretty soon she had a fever too it was a Sunday so he drove to the hospital to try and get an emergency appointment as soon as the nursery reception saw that if you rushed them into a private room in the hospital the skin on their face was starting to turn a slight shade of yellow and that's when we realized something was seriously wrong this wasn't just flu a few hours later after a lot of blood tests and painfully waiting for the results a head doctor informed us that meth and Harley were suffering from a rare form of liver disease and then it had probably been developing ever since their birth mom burst into tears and started blaming herself when she'd fallen pregnant with the twins she hadn't known and she'd worked on her wine estate so she'd been constantly tasting and reviewing new wines when she found out she was pregnant she was paranoid that all the wine would affect their health bad was comforting her telling her of course it wasn't her fault I could see how upset that was too but he was trying to hold it together for Beth and Carly they were devastated of course although I don't think they truly understood what it all meant the doctors left us so we could have some private family time we managed to calm down and that even cranked a joke and got us all laughing we were still giggling when the head doctor walked back in with a grim expression on his face my heart sunk he looked like he was about to tell us that somebody had died he pulled up a seed and asked us all to sit down I could see mom getting teary again and so I grabbed her hand and held it tightly the doctor told us that there was some more news and he didn't know how to tell us I looked at Beth and Carly I would have done anything to make them better little did I know that was about to become an actual reality for me a moment later turns out Beth and Carly's disease was a lot more critical than we thought and that their only chance of survival would be if they could find two donors who would be willing to donate part of their liver I couldn't believe it my baby sisters needed transplants I immediately jumped up and said I'll do it I'll do it right now take my liver please just save my sister's I couldn't stop crying I felt like our whole world was crumbling and yet Beth and Carly were so strong through all of this they just lay there comforting each other whilst mum and I were a mess that got to work straight away he started contacting all our family cousins aunts uncles even second cousins everyone was heartbroken I hear the news and they all rush to do blood tests to find out if they would be a match for the twins once we'd stopped crying mum and I went off to do the tests I didn't even want to leave my sisters alone in that room what if they died before I even got the results so many thoughts were running through my head I'm terrified of needles it's like my biggest phobia but I didn't even feel this one my mind was so far away I might as well have been on another planet the results came out quick unfortunately mom's liver wasn't stable enough to make her a suitable donor and nor was that the doctors informed us that this was normal due to their age etc I was crossing all of my fingers and toes as a nurse walked in to hand the doctor my results you're a match he said I had to have him repeat this because I couldn't believe what he was saying the relief was so overwhelming that I actually ran up to him and started hugging him I could save my sister's and everything would go back to normal the transplant surgery would only take a day but the recovery process was at least a month bad had obviously canceled our vacation but then I realized something else I couldn't go to college I'd missed the first two weeks and what if the surgery went wrong no I needed to be here and help my sisters recover I tried to put all negative thoughts out of my head and focus on the positive later that day I called the admissions department of my college and informed them I'd have to defer until the following year he completely understood and sent their good wishes for my sisters even though he knew it was the right decision it still killed me that I wouldn't be going to college at the same time as all my friends I'm the most indecisive person in the world so I'm surprised I made that decision so quickly the doctor is scheduled the surgery for the following month I couldn't afford to wait any longer because Beth was especially struggling but they wanted to make sure everything was in place they needed to keep an eye on me to make sure my house was okay for the transplant to be successful the slightest problem with my liver and they wouldn't be able to do it every day I had to go for blood tests to check my liver Beth and Carly were stable and even though they have to stay in the hospital we still had a fun time together watching movies and loads of their friends visited about a week before the scheduled surgery day a doctor called me I was over at my friend Amy's house at the time as soon as I heard what he said I rushed to the hospital my parents were already waiting there this next bit of news was like a punch to the chest after a lot of research the doctors had discovered that if I wanted to live a long and healthy life I could only donate a very small part of my liver which meant that I could only donate enough to save one of my sister's I felt like I was gonna to pass out no one else had been correct matched so far which meant that I was the only one who could save my sister's and now here I was being told that actually I could only save one of them I didn't want to deal with this I was only 17 years old why was I having to make such a life-altering decision I wasn't even an adult yet mom and dad helped me and told me everything would be okay and that they were sure they would find another donor but I had to make my decision quickly I walked to my sister's room and when I walked in I could tell they already knew it was obviously been crying fear pulsed through me there was no way I could make this decision they weren't just my sisters they were my best friends if he was slightly more sick than Carly told me to beat Carly and Carly told me I had to choose bath because bath needed to help more I couldn't take it I ran out of the hospital they could figure it out I knew what I needed to do either way I felt like my life was over I was supposed to be at college with all my friends and instead I was left with the responsibility of choosing which of my sister's I would save the next week path by in a blur and before I knew it the day of surgery had arrived Beth and Carly had chosen which of them I'd be saving and they weren't going to tell me until after the surgery I was put under an anaesthetic and afterwards the surgeons were smiling it had gone successfully but who had I saved which sister and what about the other one I would need to stay in hospital for at least a week to recover but I needed some fresh air so I started walking towards the main entrance I felt slightly dizzy from the anesthetic so at first I didn't even notice my dad standing by the reception there was some kind of commotion happening and my dad was speaking to a woman who looked very similar to him but just much much younger in fact she looks closer to my age than his who was she well that's when things really hit the fan because I was not prepared for what happened next my dad had got his high school sweetheart pregnant and this woman standing in the hospital was his daughter I couldn't believe that as my dad explained this all to me I honestly thought I'd snap first of all how had my dad kept this a secret for all these years second of all what on earth was she doing here at a time like this I so badly wanted to hate her but she saved us big time my dad had reached out to her when we needed donors for Beth and Carly now she was here because her blood tests had shown she was also a perfect match she could save the other twin when I heard this I wanted to hug her I didn't even have time to be angry at my dad because all I could think about was how both of my sisters would survive and now we had a fourth sister too this was crazy so in the end it all works out Sally our new stepsister saved Carly's life and I saved bats I want to say that we all lived happily ever after but of course my dad had a lot to answer for all that mattered in that moment though was celebrating Beth and Carly's successful transplants we could deal with the rest later and oh boy did we have a lot to talk about what do you think of my story and don't forget to like this video and subscribe to the channel

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Length: 10min 46sec (646 seconds)

Published: Wed Aug 07 2019