An American woman was treated as nothing more than medical waste at birth when her mother tried to carry out an abortion. But by a brilliant stroke of luck, she lived on. In search of truth, she has been desperately looking for her parents for twenty years. In the end, she has learnt the truth and forgiven everyone.
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40-year-old Melissa Ohden weighed just one kilogram at birth. Her mum was 19, and was injected saline for abortion. Ohden was dragged kicking and screaming from the womb and was cast away as if she was medical trash. The surgery was a failure, as the only 8-month-old Odhen survived and was taken into intensive care after a nurse had heard her cry.
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An American woman was treated as nothing more than medical waste at birth when her mother tried to carry out an abortion. But by a brilliant stroke of luck, she lived on. In search of truth, she has been desperately looking for her parents for twenty years. In the end, she has learnt the truth and forgiven everyone.
40-year-old Melissa Ohden weighed just one kilogram at birth. Her mum was 19, and was injected saline for abortion. Ohden was dragged kicking and screaming from the womb and was cast away as if she was medical trash. The surgery was a failure, as the only 8-month-old Odhen survived and was taken into intensive care after a nurse had heard her cry.
Although Ohden lived on, many illnesses would await her down the track. Jaundice, breathing difficulties, epilepsy, you name it. The doctor even predicted visual and hearing challenges, and slow growth for her body. But the nightmare did not end there, as it was later found out that the whole scheme was orchestrated by a nurse, “Leave the baby here to die!” she said, and that nurse was Ohden’s grandmother!
Ohden was adopted by a couple soon after birth, and she only knew about the truth when at 14 her parents spilled the beans whilst she was having an altercation with her also adopted sister. “My world stopped spinning that night; I felt livid, scared and humiliated, I even felt my entire existence was the original sin.” That bombshell revelation came like a bolt from the blue, and turned her life and character upside down. She endured tremendous emotional pain and wrench, and later developed bulimia. In despair and devastation, she turned to sex and alcohol to soften the blow, but she never revealed her feelings and opened up to her adopted parents.
At 19, Ohden decided to look for her birth parents, but she did not even know her mother’s name, so she started searching for people who look alike, and even took to the local papers to post a notice, but all was in vain. It was only until the age of 30 that Ohden began to see the light at the tunnel, when she finally became aware of her grandparents’ surname and the place where they used to work, and found someone she thought is her grandma on a nursing school’s graduation album. Ohden wrote to the address, and later got a reply from her granddad.
Granddad claimed her birth was unexpected, and even he could not help her find her mum, as they had drifted apart. Later, Ohden learnt of her birth parents’ names through medical records, and confirmed that her birth father lives in the same city as hers, and therefore wrote to him, “I am still alive, and I am not mad at you”. The letter sank without a trace. One day, she heard about her birth father’s death on the internet, her siblings even said their father mentioned he did one shameful act, but never revealed what it was, the answer is lost forever.
Aged 36, Ohden formed her own family, and after giving up on any hope of finding her mum, she received an email from her and the truth was revealed after all. At the time the relationship of Ohden’s parents was not approved by her grandmother, who forced her mum to get an abortion , and the person performing the surgery was none other than her grandmother.
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Although Ohden lived on, many illnesses would await her down the track. Jaundice, breathing difficulties, epilepsy, you name it. The doctor even predicted visual and hearing challenges, and slow growth for her body. But the nightmare did not end there, as it was later found out that the whole scheme was orchestrated by a nurse, “Leave the baby here to die!” she said, and that nurse was Ohden’s grandmother!
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Ohden was adopted by a couple soon after birth, and she only knew about the truth when at 14 her parents spilled the beans whilst she was having an altercation with her also adopted sister. “My world stopped spinning that night; I felt livid, scared and humiliated, I even felt my entire existence was the original sin.” That bombshell revelation came like a bolt from the blue, and turned her life and character upside down. She endured tremendous emotional pain and wrench, and later developed bulimia. In despair and devastation, she turned to sex and alcohol to soften the blow, but she never revealed her feelings and opened up to her adopted parents.
Online Photo
At 19, Ohden decided to look for her birth parents, but she did not even know her mother’s name, so she started searching for people who look alike, and even took to the local papers to post a notice, but all was in vain. It was only until the age of 30 that Ohden began to see the light at the tunnel, when she finally became aware of her grandparents’ surname and the place where they used to work, and found someone she thought is her grandma on a nursing school’s graduation album. Ohden wrote to the address, and later got a reply from her granddad.
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Granddad claimed her birth was unexpected, and even he could not help her find her mum, as they had drifted apart. Later, Ohden learnt of her birth parents’ names through medical records, and confirmed that her birth father lives in the same city as hers, and therefore wrote to him, “I am still alive, and I am not mad at you”. The letter sank without a trace. One day, she heard about her birth father’s death on the internet, her siblings even said their father mentioned he did one shameful act, but never revealed what it was, the answer is lost forever.
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Aged 36, Ohden formed her own family, and after giving up on any hope of finding her mum, she received an email from her and the truth was revealed after all. At the time the relationship of Ohden’s parents was not approved by her grandmother, who forced her mum to get an abortion , and the person performing the surgery was none other than her grandmother.
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Ohden and her birth mother met last year, at the time they hugged and both cried a river of tears, and now they meet regularly. Ohden’s mum said she is filled with guilt and remorse; Ohden however said she does not blame it on her at all. Ohden has also chosen to forgive her dad, and even her grandma, who was the “source of all evils”. “We are all human beings, and we can all make mistakes,” she said.
