Actor Dennis Quaid sits down with Oprah Winfrey and talks about the devastating November 2007 medical mishap that he says caused his twin then-newborns to receive one-thousand times the dose of medicine they were intended to receive.In the interview that airs on the "The Oprah Winfrey Show" on Tuesday, Dennis describes the incident.
"Well, they were given Heparin which is a blood thinner and it's used at the point of entry for an antibiotic sometimes to make sure that the blood doesn't clot at the point of entry for the antibiotic," Dennis tells Oprah.
"They received a thousand times the dose that they should have gotten," Dennis goes on to say. "And what it does is it thins the blood so that the antibiotic can flow. But this massive dose turned their blood the consistency of water."
An emotional Dennis tells Oprah how he saw the silver lining despite the traumatic event:
"I remember after that 40 hours and they pulled through and they were sleeping comfortably at the hospital. I just remember thinking that, you know, this did happen for a reason. These two little kids, 12 days old, they're gonna -- they're gonna change the world in some way…."
Watch Oprah's complete interview with Dennis and his wife Kimberly Tuesday on "The Oprah Winfrey Show."
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