1960 Mitchell, count your arms, legs, blessings!

In the late 1960s and early '70s a new drug was on the market. Developed in Germany, it was called thalidomide. Prescibed by doctors to pregnant women to control morning sickness and loss of sleep.
Sadly, it was to cause horrific deformities in their children. Babies were born armless or legless, even both and worse.
Mitchell, you were concieved in August(?) of 1959 and born May 1960. 'Tis said your mother was offered thalidomide by her doctor, but she declined it.

Life really is a chancy business.