TU Tuesday - Culture

Link to article: http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Chile-doctors-try-separating-conjoined-twins-2400914.php
Link to poem: http://books.google.com/books?id=Mp27OG4SQgMC&pg=PA208&lpg=PA208&dq=chilean+poetry+about+twins&source=bl&ots=Oqrg-cu-Az&sig=XFbCSAM1R7-QO1oFQHyMDnPzTKs&hl=en&ei=aALoTsKEJ8Hs0gHbqqXhCQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=6&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBQ#v=onepage&q&f=false
(that was honestly the closest I could find to poetry about Chile doctors performing surgery on conjoined twins.. I couldn't fine anything on hope or strength either)

  
"Inside, an army of experts was ready to try yet again to separate the conjoined twins, this time at the thorax, stomach and pelvic regions. It would be the seventh operation that the girls would undergo in their 10 months alive." My article that I found was as you can tell a Chilean doctor performing surgery on two girls that were born conjoined. "A miracle from God is what I'm waiting for." spoken from  Jessica Navarrete the mother of the two girls as they go into the operating room. Jessica was really scared for both her girls and was trying to keep strong for them both to have a safe surgery. During the surgery the girls had lost a lot of blood and the doctor asked their father "Roberto Paredes, to issue a call for the public to help out by donating blood." Finally after 10 hours of long surgery the girls "were split at the heart and liver areas". Reading on in the article I guess only one of the twins if the operation goes as planned can keep their original rectum from when they were born. Gross, but studies showed "one out of every 200,000 live births worldwide results in conjoined twins. About 35 percent survive only one day, while the overall survival rate is 5 percent to 25 percent." However it was hard with these set of twins because they shared internal organs and that is really hard to separate. The doctor stated "Never have we faced such a high risk," Ossandon said. "We don't have another option from the perspective of the quality of life and the expectations for life of Maria Jose and Maria Paz." The twins are now currently at the Villlarrica hospital and they are breathing on a ventilator using artificial air.