I went to the intensive care unit intubated and I stayed there for thirty-one hours and I was extubated on the afternoon of the third.

Twin A came out in poor condition and recovered quickly.

He was in the NICU for nine days for observation and feeding and he came home on the eleventh of March and he is four years old now and he is in every respect a completely ordinary, healthy, extremely loud four-year-old.

Twin B came out in very poor condition.

I am not going to write about the fifteen minutes that followed, in any detail, ever.

I have read those pages four times and I am not going to reproduce them and if you want to know what happened in them, they are the standard pages and they are in every account of this that has ever been written and I decline to put my son in one.