Saturday, February 16, 2013
Conjoined Twins
In class we have talked a lot about conjoined twins. Most if not all of us agreed that if we gave birth to a set of conjoined twins we would request the surgery to separate them. This would allow our children to have live their own life and be their own individuals. One of the only things that would link then to being conjoined twins would be a small scar that they would have from the surgery. But what if you had conjoined twins like Abby and Brittany Hensel who are the only living dicephalic parapagus twins. They each have their own spines and spinal cords and have they each have separate organs like a heart and stomach These twins that have two heads but share a single body. So i wanted to ask how would you as a parent handle that? There is no surgery to allow these two to become separate individuals. People look at twins that are joined at the liver torso or head as an oddity. But how would they look at twins like Brittany and Abby?
Below is a link to a Youtube video of Abby and Brittany. I may be mistaken but it appears that this video is before the twins had their television show on TLC.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K57IcN9DWXo
The video is courtesy of youtube.com
-Chris Murray
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I'm no physician but it may not a medically sound idea to separate this pair. From what I'm aware each head has control of their respective side, so the've learned how to walk, drive, and other activities as a pair. So it could be quite a detrimental move to separate. Also, TLC has a bad reputation for bad tv and making shows for the sake of ratings, but this show seems to portray their situation in a positive light. I realize tv is tv, but they also seem to be a good team. I know some of the episodes deal with them graduating and moving onto the real world, which is what we all are striving to do.
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