🧵 Selena fans were excited a few weeks ago when her father revealed in an interview that two new albums were on the way.
He also dropped another bit of information most everyone has overlooked. The doctor who delivered Selena was Ron Paul. #Selena27 preview.houstonchronicle.com/selena/the-doc…
He also dropped another bit of information most everyone has overlooked. The doctor who delivered Selena was Ron Paul. #Selena27 preview.houstonchronicle.com/selena/the-doc…
2/ Yes, the former Texas congressman and presidential hopeful.
Paul worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist from the 60s to the 80s, including time in Lake Jackson where Selena was born. Abraham Quintanilla recounts the tale in his book "A Father's Dream." preview.houstonchronicle.com/selena/the-doc…
Paul worked as an obstetrician-gynecologist from the 60s to the 80s, including time in Lake Jackson where Selena was born. Abraham Quintanilla recounts the tale in his book "A Father's Dream." preview.houstonchronicle.com/selena/the-doc…
3/ And it gets even wilder.
"My wife was feeling ill. The doctor said at the conclusion (of the examination), 'You have a tumor. We have to operate and remove it,'" Quintanilla said during the interview with Latin Groove News. preview.houstonchronicle.com/selena/the-doc…
"My wife was feeling ill. The doctor said at the conclusion (of the examination), 'You have a tumor. We have to operate and remove it,'" Quintanilla said during the interview with Latin Groove News. preview.houstonchronicle.com/selena/the-doc…
4/ Quintanilla was unconvinced, so he and his wife Marcella sought a second opinion. That doctor was Ron Paul.
"He tells me, 'That tumor that the other doctor wanted to remove has two arms and two legs. She's pregnant'," Quintanilla recalled. preview.houstonchronicle.com/selena/the-doc…
"He tells me, 'That tumor that the other doctor wanted to remove has two arms and two legs. She's pregnant'," Quintanilla recalled. preview.houstonchronicle.com/selena/the-doc…
5/5 Selena was born April 16, 1971 at Freeport Community Hospital.
"Imagine if we had let the first doctor who wrongly diagnosed her operate," Quintanilla said. "There would be no Selena." preview.houstonchronicle.com/selena/the-doc…
"Imagine if we had let the first doctor who wrongly diagnosed her operate," Quintanilla said. "There would be no Selena." preview.houstonchronicle.com/selena/the-doc…
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