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Posted on Wed, Aug. 09, 2006
"I got tears in my eyes, because they looked so good," a surgeon said. But the girls have a long way to go.
By Jennifer Dobner
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY - Swathed in gauze, twin sisters Kendra and Maliyah Herrin were rolled from the operating room and moved to separate beds for the first time yesterday after 26 hours of surgery in which doctors separated the 4-year-olds and reconstructed their internal organs.
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The girls had been born in a perpetual hug, their little bodies fused at the midsection so that they were practically face-to-face. They shared a liver, a kidney, a pelvis, one set of legs, and part of their intestines.
~snip~
The operation was believed to be the first time surgeons separated conjoined twins with a shared kidney, said Rebecka Meyers, chief pediatric surgeon at Primary Children's Medical Center.
Matlak was the first to cradle Kendra after separation, lifting her gently from the operating table to move her to another room for reconstruction surgery.
"It was a great moment," Matlak said. "In one sense, she was mine."
-> more at link:
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/health/15228971.htm
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I love this Dr. Matlak, especially his comment stating, "In one sense, she was mine." That says a lot to me about him.
The Herrin have their work cut out for them with a 6-year-old daughter and twin 14-month-old boys, besides the twin girls that were just separated!
God bless them one and all!
The family is posting Web updates at http://www.herrintwins.com
"I got tears in my eyes, because they looked so good," a surgeon said. But the girls have a long way to go.
By Jennifer Dobner
Associated Press
SALT LAKE CITY - Swathed in gauze, twin sisters Kendra and Maliyah Herrin were rolled from the operating room and moved to separate beds for the first time yesterday after 26 hours of surgery in which doctors separated the 4-year-olds and reconstructed their internal organs.
~snip~
The girls had been born in a perpetual hug, their little bodies fused at the midsection so that they were practically face-to-face. They shared a liver, a kidney, a pelvis, one set of legs, and part of their intestines.
~snip~
The operation was believed to be the first time surgeons separated conjoined twins with a shared kidney, said Rebecka Meyers, chief pediatric surgeon at Primary Children's Medical Center.
Matlak was the first to cradle Kendra after separation, lifting her gently from the operating table to move her to another room for reconstruction surgery.
"It was a great moment," Matlak said. "In one sense, she was mine."
-> more at link:
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/living/health/15228971.htm
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I love this Dr. Matlak, especially his comment stating, "In one sense, she was mine." That says a lot to me about him.
The Herrin have their work cut out for them with a 6-year-old daughter and twin 14-month-old boys, besides the twin girls that were just separated!
God bless them one and all!
The family is posting Web updates at http://www.herrintwins.com
