They adopted me at 3 lbs #adoption #miracle #shorts | Words From The Wise

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]I was adopted at birth, right? I was born to a teenage mother who was not able to have a child, like to keep the baby. I was born three and a half months early and I weighed like 3 lb when I was born, which is going to be a whole separate video about my birth story and how that's affected my life. But I was adopted by my mom and dad, Gary and Nyla Wise, at really they got me about about 2 months after I was born because I had to stay in the hospital in the NICU for a couple of months, right? And then 3 and 1/2 years later, my parents, Gary and Nyla, my mom was not able to have children of her own due to some medical complication she had had while she was a Navy spouse. My dad did about 8 years in the Navy on active duty. He went from being an undesignated seaman to being a hospital corpsman. He eventually rose to the rank of petty officer second class hospital corps and my mom was having a bunch of medical complications and it just it was not conducive to her her I'd say mental health and spiritual health and physical health for him to continue on with the service and so they made the decision for him to get a discharge out of the Navy and to be full-time, to be able to be with her, which is really what they both needed to do.

[00:01:31]Um a big part of their goal for the future was to have a family. And back in the 70s, early 80s, my dad said he did not have the opinion that the adoption agencies looked at military families as being good opportunities for adoptions to be placed. So he felt like they would be better, more advantageously situated for adoption if they were no longer in the service. So there was multiple reasons why they wanted to let the Navy go and get back to Utah and be near family. So, they adopted me 1977.

[00:02:08]I was their first and then 4 years later they adopted my little sister, Christie.

[00:02:14]Um you know, and we had a we had a great we have a great family.