Born too early with a 50/50 chance of survival - now she helps save other premature babies
When Sabina Checketts holds her hand a certain way, the tiny scar on the back of it looks like a rocket ship. Checketts got the scar during the first few days of her life, during a tenuous struggle for survival, after she was born at 28 weeks—12 weeks prematurely. Her rocket ship scar, and a few other small ones, are marks left by lines inserted into her tiny, frail body to keep her alive."I don't point these out to parents," Checketts says, "but to me they're badges of honor, because I survived."
The parents she's referring to are the parents of her patients. Thirty-three years after