Many identical twins will tell you they have had experiences that would be hard to explain by other means than the fact that they are bonded by something, well, twinsical.
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On a cool Minnesota summer night in 1973--I was two years old--my mother put me to bed in her room; Jami, my identical twin sister, went to sleep in her own bed in our room. I had a sore throat and wouldn't sleep. Mom did the logical thing and sat by me until I'd finally sleep. Dad went to our room and slept in my bed.
At 3:30 AM my twin sister awakened to realize I wasn't in my bed (what heck is Dad doing in Jodi's bed?!) She sleepily staggered into the master bedroom and shook her Mommy's arm. Dad saw Jami leave the room and followed her.
"Where's Jodi?" she asked. In her drowsy state Mom turned to look at me and could see in the dim light of early summer dawn that I was bluish. "David, quick, call the hospital!" she'd snapped awake.
They rushed me into the emergency room, Jami stayed with a neighbor. As the nurses changed my pajamas for hospital apparel and thrust an IV into my right arm, one nurse saw that suddenly, I was not breathing.
Code blue was announced over the hospital speakers; my parents didn't know the harried hospital workers were running toward their two-year-old's room. A large tube was forcefully guided down my throat. It was later determined that I'd contracted an unusual virus, called Epiglottitis, which caused my epiglottis to swell and obstruct my windpipe.
The doctor conferred with my parents. "If you had arrived a half hour later you'd have lost her," he explained.
My sister awakening my parents at the time she did saved my life, that's for certain. If they'd have brought me to the hospital earlier, the nurse might not have been present to notice my breathing had stopped. And of course any later, and the next morning in our household would have been tragic.
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One might look at the circumstances and conclude that our "twin connection" lead my sister to find me at just the right time. I look at it and think that perhaps it was more of a "God" thing than a "Twin" thing. Yet repeatedly, I see that as close and remarkable as human bonds can be, that of identical twins is unique.
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