The Vancouver Sun (2012).Do you know that there is a pair of conjoined twins in the United States, who are all grown up and living their best life? These two ladies have been an inspiration to all conjoined siblings, as they adjusted to their unusual life very well. Through her sister’s eyes: conjoined twins Tatiana and Krista were extraordinary from the beginning.
įor 98 percent of all sets of conjoined twins, each person has their own separate and distinct thoughts and feelings. The really mesmerizing thing is watching them type on a computer, as both girls’ hands fly over the keys, but there is no verbal discussion of what they are writing. Now as grown-ups they are incredibly well coordinated with this set-up, able to walk with a smooth gait, dribble a basketball, ride a bike, and even drive a car: both steer and Abigail controls the accelerator with her right foot. Each twin manipulates one arm and one leg.Īs infants, the initial learning of physical processes that required bodily coordination, such as clapping, crawling, and walking, required the cooperation of both twins, even standing up takes total coordination. Each twin controls her half of their body – Brittany, the left twin, can’t feel the right side of her body, and vice versa. Below the waist, they are more like one body. They have two hearts, two spines, two sets of lungs, two arms and two stomachs. For example, 27-year old Abigail “Abby” and Brittany Hensel are joined at the torso. The answers to these questions are indeed different for different pairs of conjoined twins. Common public questions are: How do conjoined twins live together? How do they eat, walk or manage any other daily routine activities? Do they share thoughts and can they read each other’s mind? Ĭonjoined twins have been known to exist for centuries, yet there is very little understanding of this phenomenon. The “fusion” can be so extensive that in some cases, it is no longer correct to talk about “twins” because there is only one individual with some extra organs.
Abby and brittany hensel who controls the body skin#
In fact, there is a whole spectrum of cases with different degrees of bodily overlapping: from being joined by a thin sliver of skin to being extensively fused. They can be joined anywhere-head, chest, abdomen, hips, and so on. The occurrence is estimated to range from 1 in 50,000 births to 1 in 100,000 births, when identical twins are born physically connected to each other. Conjoined twinning is one of the most fascinating and at the same time devastating human malformations.
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