A horrific house fire left then 2-year-old Michelle Anderson with burns over 90 percent of her body. But her sister Katherine escaped uninjured.
Two weeks in, Michelle developed sepsis, and doctors urgently began a series of temporary dressings and skin grafts, mostly from donated tissue, to cover her burns and avoid further infection. Michelle underwent 25 surgeries before she finally went home on Nov. 1, 1996. She had to relearn how to walk and talk again and suffered from vivid nightmares about the fire for more than a year.
When high school came around, the twins found their unique passions and the courage to seek independence. “Finding our own identities is what saved our friendship,” she adds. “If we had done the same activities, it would have destroyed me. I would never have felt good enough, because I would have always been comparing myself to her.”While Michelle has fought mightily to overcome the pain and ordeal caused by her injuries , Katherine has had to come to terms with her own remorse and frustration.
Adds Michelle, who is finishing her second master’s degree, in business leadership, in June: “Katherine was my constant support system. But having someone who looks exactly like you — but doesn’t have scars — is always a reminder of what my life would have been. She’s the life and the face I could have had.”
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