Their identical triplet sister, Catalina, was born without serious health issues. The defects may present in different ways, but the basic specialists and surgeries that need to be involved are usually the same. But in May of 2015 Catalina, Ximena and Scarlett Hernandez-Torres were born in Corpus Christi, Texas. Conjoined siblings occur about once in every 200,000 births.
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“We don’t care if they are conjoined or not”.
Both parents had been told ahead of time that they were having triplets, and that two of them were conjoined, according to local news KHOU. About 70 percent of conjoined twins are female. The staff in charge of the surgery is made up of specialty physicians from pediatric surgery, plastic surgery, an urologist, and orthopedics, along with 10 nurses and about 8 anesthesiologists.
The “marathon” surgery began at 9 a.m. this morning.
These organs will be reconstructed after the girls are separated surgically.
“Since they were born, I have been waiting anxiously for them to be separated because I want to hold them separately in my arms and hold them close”.
Monday the team performed a mock surgery to make sure everything is ready for the following day of the actual surgery.
They were expected to endure 12 to 18 hours of surgery on Tuesday at a hospital in Corpus Christi, Texas. “But of course I want it to happen so they can have a normal life”, said Hernandez.
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Conjoined twins were separated today after a grueling and delicate surgery that took place at Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi. We shared this video on our Facebook page.
