Solveig Akkerman:  

I worked for St. Mary's Hospital Pharmacy from the middle of my senior year in high school until 1984, when I quit to get married in Sept. 1984. I moved to our farm in rural Austin, MN. We had a wonderful two week honeymoon in Hawaii, but when we got back from the honeymoon, by husband changed, some of it probably due to the fact that harvest was in full swing when we got back, but he expected me to know everything about farming, and I was a city girl. I was thrown into things that I knew nothing about, but I learned fast. I learned to drive tractors, run for parts, and I used my pharmacy skills in giving baby pig shots! We had our first child, Michael in June, 1985, 6 weeks early. Michael contracted Beta-Strep during the birth process, and at 3 1/2 weeks, came down with Meningitis and passed away 2 days later. In November 1986, I had a set of triplets, 11 1/2 weeks early. Brian was 3 pounds, Christine, 2 pounds 7 ounces, and David, 2 pounds, 14 ounces. At 12 hours old, Brian collapsed a lung and they were successful at placing a chest tube. David collapsed both lungs and they had to place 4 chest tubes, and at 17 hours, he passed away. (Two of the chest tubes actually went through his lungs.) It must be almost impossible to get those chest tubes...Expand for more