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[jadesymb]

Congratulations! You are giving birth to a set of adorable twins! However, it turns out that the twins are conjoined in such a way that would make separation surgery life threatening. The doctors tell you that in order to attempt the surgery, it needs to be done when the children are young, ideally preformed when the twins are between the ages

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[sblmnldrknss]

I'm a little confused... If these girls shared a heart, what was the plan? Was one getting a donor heart? What?

I think I'd want to separate them. And if the risk of losing one was so high, I think I would want to do it when they were quite young, not older.

But man, what a crappy situation no matter what the outcome.

[laminy]

I don't know for sure, but my guess is they decided that instead of knowing both of them would die, they wanted to try and give one of them a chance. Sacrificing one instead of both?

But I don't know, I didn't follow the story or anything.

[thelilyqueen]

Most likely. And, I think it's pretty common for one conjoined twin to be better off medically than the other... they've got the full compliment of organs, or theirs are in better shape, and such. The weaker twin will, sometimes, be sacrificed in that case.

[jadesymb]

They were both getting donor hearts. The shared heart was two or three times the size of a normal heart. It would not have fit in a normal sized chest. Also, it was failing.

[jadesymb]

They were both getting donor hearts. The shared heart was two or three times the size of a normal heart. It would not have fit in a normal sized chest. Also, it was failing.