Where were your born; have you ever been back to the place ?
This is were I was born:
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Out exploring this evening I has passing through the next but one town up the valley from where I live, when I though I should checkout where I was born, I'd never thought to do this before.
Thought I'd found it at the old cottage hospital in the town, still used by the NHS, but on enquiries from my mother, it turns out I was born in separate house, a mile or two out of town.
From a quick googling, it appears to have been the mid-Victorian mansion of the local mill magnate, mill as it grain rather than textiles.
In 1948 it became a cottage hospital, I presume mainly used as a maternity ward, later changing to a nursing home and in the last few years transformed into a luxury flat complex.
I may make a trip to visit in in the next few days, as it's only just over the downs from here.
So what part if any has you're place of birth played in your life following your birth ?
The Krak de Shelf is nicer looking.
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 03, 2012, 05:45:14 PM
The Krak de Shelf is nicer looking.
You were born in Syria ? :hmm:
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This place. And no role whatsoever.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on August 03, 2012, 05:49:48 PM
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This place. And no role whatsoever.
Damn, I forget American hospital can be quite big.
Yes no role whatso ever here either, but I put the question in as some people are were born at home for instance.
The place I was born has since been razed to the ground and built over.
South Baltimore General, then:
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Harbor Hospital Center (A Division of MedStar Health, Inc.), now:
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I've lived in the same county for 39.5 out of 40 years. What do you think?
Was called Denver General Hospital when i was born, but apparently now Called Denver Health Medical Center.
And like MiM, had no impact what so ever on rest of my life.
Quote from: katmai on August 03, 2012, 06:05:57 PM
And like MiM, had no impact what so ever on rest of my life.
Me neither. Drove past it many, many times. Took an arrest there once or twice. Meh. Just a hospital.
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 03, 2012, 06:05:50 PM
I've lived in the same county for 39.5 out of 40 years. What do you think?
Ed's kin.
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Quote from: katmai on August 03, 2012, 06:09:24 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on August 03, 2012, 06:05:50 PM
I've lived in the same county for 39.5 out of 40 years. What do you think?
Ed's kin.
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I suggest you back off today. Srsly. Lest I get started.
NHS John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford England. The maternity ward had been open for less than 12 months and I was the largest baby ever born there. They also ended up putting my mom's maiden name on my birth certificate; this is a problem when you remember that icelandic names are patronyms, so apparently the hospital thought I was my maternal grandfather's daughter.
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So your legal name is Viking Helgasdottir? :lol:
I was born out of my mother's vagina. It never occurred to me to try to get back in.
Quote from: Razgovory on August 03, 2012, 06:32:13 PM
I was born out of my mother's vagina. It never occurred to me to try to get back in.
That would be 'In Through The Out Door', something which is midly amusing if played in supermarkets. :bowler:
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 03, 2012, 06:19:18 PM
So your legal name is Viking Helgasdottir? :lol:
I got that fixed, but I have a letter from the embassy attached to my birth certificate... fortunately for me both my grandfathers had the same name so it isn't really complicated.
Quote from: Viking on August 03, 2012, 06:36:30 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 03, 2012, 06:19:18 PM
So your legal name is Viking Helgasdottir? :lol:
I got that fixed, but I have a letter from the embassy attached to my birth certificate... fortunately for me both my grandfathers had the same name so it isn't really complicated.
[Border immigration official 1]
He's one of those weird Icelanders, just nod and wave him thru, otherwise it can turn into a real saga as he explains his linaage back 23 generations.
[/Border immigration official 1]
Quote from: mongers on August 03, 2012, 06:41:05 PM
Quote from: Viking on August 03, 2012, 06:36:30 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 03, 2012, 06:19:18 PM
So your legal name is Viking Helgasdottir? :lol:
I got that fixed, but I have a letter from the embassy attached to my birth certificate... fortunately for me both my grandfathers had the same name so it isn't really complicated.
[Border immigration official 1]
He's one of those weird Icelanders, just nod and wave him thru, otherwise it can turn into a real saga as he explains his linaage back 23 generations.
[/Border immigration official 1]
33 :blush:
Quote from: Viking on August 03, 2012, 06:41:55 PM
Quote from: mongers on August 03, 2012, 06:41:05 PM
Quote from: Viking on August 03, 2012, 06:36:30 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on August 03, 2012, 06:19:18 PM
So your legal name is Viking Helgasdottir? :lol:
I got that fixed, but I have a letter from the embassy attached to my birth certificate... fortunately for me both my grandfathers had the same name so it isn't really complicated.
[Border immigration official 1]
He's one of those weird Icelanders, just nod and wave him thru, otherwise it can turn into a real saga as he explains his linaage back 23 generations.
[/Border immigration official 1]
33 :blush:
Well that's about 30 more than mine. :bowler:
Quote from: mongers on August 03, 2012, 05:40:56 PM
Where were your born; have you ever been back to the place ?
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So what part if any has you're place of birth played in your life following your birth ?
Sure, I've been back; it was the biggest hospital anywhere near where I grew up. What role has it played? Sweet fuck-all, other than showing up for others being born or dying.
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I'm named after both my grandfathers, so the name on the birth certificate is
Viking Vikingsdottir
I was born in St Louis Missouri, no idea which hospital I was too young to remember. My mom's side of the family is still there so I have been back many times, used to be every summer growing up, now just for weddings and funerals.
The only impact has been my choice in pro sports teams.
I was born in a hospital and I've been there dozens of times.
Quote from: sbr on August 03, 2012, 07:05:19 PM
I was born in St Louis Missouri, no idea which hospital I was too young to remember. My mom's side of the family is still there so I have been back many times, used to be every summer growing up, now just for weddings and funerals.
The only impact has been my choice in pro sports teams.
Where are you from in St. Louis?
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The top levels are new. not sure why they changed the motif. makes the building look weird.
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. It was named something different back then, Monterey General Hospital or something. Lots of trees there.
Quote from: Razgovory on August 03, 2012, 07:15:05 PM
Quote from: sbr on August 03, 2012, 07:05:19 PM
I was born in St Louis Missouri, no idea which hospital I was too young to remember. My mom's side of the family is still there so I have been back many times, used to be every summer growing up, now just for weddings and funerals.
The only impact has been my choice in pro sports teams.
Where are you from in St. Louis?
My family is in South St Louis County and have lived there as long as I can remember. My cousins went to Oakville High School (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakville_High_School).
Yes many times though not to the hospital.
St. David's Hospital in Downtown Austin. I have been in a couple times since and I drive by it twice a day to and from work.
Huh, I don't know what hospital I was born in. Pretty sure I haven't been back since I was 5.
The hospital I was born in way back when was a rather big, proper hospital.
I don't know what the deal with it these days but it is all very spotty, much of it is closed and it is only used for certain things. I went for an x-ray there last year.
Quote from: sbr on August 03, 2012, 08:21:32 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 03, 2012, 07:15:05 PM
Quote from: sbr on August 03, 2012, 07:05:19 PM
I was born in St Louis Missouri, no idea which hospital I was too young to remember. My mom's side of the family is still there so I have been back many times, used to be every summer growing up, now just for weddings and funerals.
The only impact has been my choice in pro sports teams.
Where are you from in St. Louis?
My family is in South St Louis County and have lived there as long as I can remember. My cousins went to Oakville High School (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oakville_High_School).
Most of my family lives in North County. Back in the old days they lived in places like Dago Hill and god knows where else.
Dago hill. :lol:
Reminds me of the nigger camp in harlan county.
They just call it the Hill now.
I ain't playing as I'm not given mongers answers to a security question.
Yes. My kid was born there too.
From the outside it looks the same.
The hospital was St. Michael's, I believe, in Texarkana, TX.
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I haven't even been back to Texarkana, except to drive through one time, let alone been a patient or anything in the hospital there.
Was born in some hospital in Irving, Texas. My folks and I lived in some crummy apartment the DFW area until I was a few months old, whereupon we moved to San Antonio.
Quote from: Razgovory on August 03, 2012, 09:54:13 PM
They just call it the Hill now.
In my three years living in St. Louis area I never once visited the Hill. Did I miss out? :huh:
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Same place Neil was, I suspect. I was back for a ER visit 8 or so years later, just weeks before it was torn down.
I was back at the very hospital wherein I was born, about 10 years ago, when my uncle was dying of lung cancer.
Bemusing.
He was a hell of a guy. He was, for about 20 years, the top-rated music DJ in Milwaukee. He made it to his late fifties, smoking two packs a day.
Not a one of his kids smoke.
Yeah, so, depressing.
But, you know, shit happens.
Still a very good hospital.
I think I was back in the same hospital I was born in when I broke my leg a few years later, but I am not quite sure which hospital I was born in as there is another close by which is specialized for childbirth.
Born at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg. Had a health scare when I was about 13, was in the same hospital at the time.
I wonder what little Timmy will say about this question. He was born in Yukon, I fully plan to bring him back at some point (to do the Whitehorse to Dawson City canoe trip if nothing else), but beyond having a Yukon birth certificate I wonder what he'll think of the place I love so much.
Quote from: FunkMonk on August 03, 2012, 10:39:37 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on August 03, 2012, 09:54:13 PM
They just call it the Hill now.
In my three years living in St. Louis area I never once visited the Hill. Did I miss out? :huh:
Nah. It's just a area with lots of Italians.
One of the major Stockholm hospitals.
Half my hometown must have been born here:
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I've never been back as a patient, only for visits.
Born in the hospital in the village where I live know. it's a rather green hospital.
My mom works there and my mom in law also.
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Hospital Miguel Servet, named for a local physician -- the first Christian to describe pulmonary circulation, who ended up burned at the stake by Calvino and friends.
It's the biggest hospital around here. Maternity ward is the closest building down left.
I've lost count on the amount of times I've been there. I go at least 2 or 3 times per trimester to get blood work done, visit the specialist and get my drugs from the pharmacy (you can't get biologics anywhere else). I've had all my tests done there, as well as surgery. I've slept on a bed there between 30 and 40 times.
Last time was a month ago when I spent the night after a dilation. I have another scheduled in mid September and before that I'll have to get my fix.
Man you guys were born in big hospitals.
Wow an Archy sighting :)
Quote from: Razgovory on August 04, 2012, 11:22:21 AM
Man you guys were born in big hospitals.
Actually, it's bigger now. Pic is a bit out of date. You can see the cranes used to erect the new trauma center behind the main building. A whole wing of the nearby the red tile roof complex (my bro's high school) is now also part of the hospital, linked by an elevated pass.
I was born in a Catholic hospital. Funny considering how anti-Catholic my mother is.
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They have since demolished this hospital and built a fancy new one.
One thing great about southern California is even dumps have palm trees around them.
Quote from: Jaron on August 04, 2012, 10:08:50 PM
I was born in a Catholic hospital. Funny considering how anti-Catholic my mother is.
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They have since demolished this hospital and built a fancy new one.
Wow, that's rough. I have heard of breaking the mold but tearing down the entire hospital?
Kids had fun for a year or so breaking into it and exploring the old rooms, especially the morgue.
Both the major Hospitals in Austin are Catholic which is sorta weird now that I think about it.
Opus Dei! :o
I was battleborn.
My dad was deployed to the Sinai when I was born, holding the Kav Bar Lev against the egyptians.
I mean, I was born back at Haifa, but I hope that counts as battleborn.
By the way, why the hell do you fags call my city Haifa, the arab pronounciation, insted of Heifa, the real pronounciation?
Quote from: Razgovory on August 04, 2012, 11:22:21 AM
Man you guys were born in big hospitals.
The one I was born in will be slowly phased out in the next few years, as they're currently buliding a huge new one just outside the city. Right now it's just an enormous building site, though.
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Cause it makes your city sound like a cow.
Quote from: Razgovory on August 05, 2012, 05:23:52 AM
Cause it makes your city sound like a cow.
That'sa real fine Heffa ya got there, boy.