Two-Headed Baby?

[Torm]

Smiling and blinking showed SOME brain function somewhere..... makes you wonder just how much cognizance that second twin had..... (even if it wasn't much)

They've proven in lab experiments that monkeys can learn to control a third robotic arm as though it was their own. Depending on the "wiring", the other face may have been responding to her.

 

[Tewligan]

That seems unwise. Why, for starters, would they connect two people like that (regardless if they were twins) and why on earth would they show it on the surgery channel?!?!?!

Heh heh - Mark, that was both horribly inappropriate and funny as hell.

 

[BOZ]

Apropos of little to nothing, the Elephant Man was formerly employed as a door-to-door salesman. Talk about picking a job that doesn't play to your strengths...

Hello ma'am, I would like to...

Aaaiieieeeee!!!! *SLAM*!

Hmm, that keeps happening.

 

[Mark]

Heh heh - Mark, that was both horribly inappropriate and funny as hell.

I'm required that a certain percentage of posts are both to maintain my gift/curse ratio. It's as if I'm of two minds...

 

[Blue_Kryptonite]

We watch Surgery all the time, especailly things like Trauma: Life in the ER. Its just amazing to watch the machinary of a human body survive that kind of damage and still function and heal after the skilled repairs of the surgeons.

 

[Steve Jung]

It's as if I'm of two minds...

Groan. But good.

 

[Xath]

That's just plain bloomin' wrong!!! The things people will do for tv...... ARRRGGGHHH!!!

That out of the way.... the only, repeat ONLY way I'd see that as being useful is for surgical students at med school. That is the only way I'd see the reasoning behind "the surgery channel"....

No, no, no. I wrote an ambiguous sentence. The twins were conjoined at the head at birth. They were seperated for their health when they were 3 months old. And it was before the reality TV boom hit anyway, I think it was in '98. The channel was doing a series on the lives of conjoined twins, how some people coped with it, and how modern medicine was changing it. There was a pair of 40ish year olds connected at the head at much the same angle as the babies in the article. One walked, and one sat in a height adjusted chair and was pushed around by the other. When they were born, the surgical techniques weren't advanced enough to seperate them, and by the time they were developed (still fairly experimental in '98) their systems were too integrated to seperate. It was a really fascinating show.

Had the babies not been separated, at least one of them would have died.

 

[Krieg]

Had the babies not been separated, at least one of them would have died.

Was this the case where the doctor decided to go against the trend and do several surgeries rather than one long marathon surgery?

 

[Mark]

No, no, no. I wrote an ambiguous sentence. The twins were conjoined at the head at birth.

Ah, I see now...

Had the babies not been separated, at least one of them would have died.

The "shared vital organ" thing is always a danger.

 

[Xath]

Was this the case where the doctor decided to go against the trend and do several surgeries rather than one long marathon surgery?

Yes, I believe it was. I think they separated a bit at a time, allowing skull tissue to reform so it wouldn't be such a huge shock to the system.