<p>I weighed in at 5 lbs 13 oz and my parents were happy. But their world was immediately shaken up when the doctors told them that I wouldn&#39;t survive because I was so small. My parents didn&#39;t know what to do. They called my grandmother, Annie Ruth Willis, a sweet, southern, hardworking, and a loving woman and explained to her what the doctors had just told them. I weighed in at 5 lbs 13 oz and my parents were happy. But their world was immediately shaken up when the doctors told them that I wouldn&#39;t survive because I was so small. My parents didn&#39;t know what to do. They called my grandmother, Annie Ruth Willis, a sweet, southern, hardworking, and a loving woman and explained to her what the doctors had just told them.</p>