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PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by Freegift75: 8:54am On Jun 05, 2016 |
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/the-story-of-the-surgery-that-made-ben-carson-famous--and-its-complicated-aftermath/2015/11/13/15b5f900-88c1-11e5-be39-0034bb576eee_story.html More than any other moment in a dazzling career, the separation of the Binder twins launched the stardom of Ben Carson. The then-35-year-old doctor walked out of the operating room that day and stepped into a spotlight that has never dimmed, from the post-surgery news conference covered worldwide, through his subsequent achievements in his medical career, to publishing deals and a lucrative career as a motivational speaker — all paving the way to his current moment as a leading candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. In January 1987, Theresia Binder was eight months pregnant and suicidal. “I wanted to kill them and myself as well,” she said, according to Carson’s best-selling book “Gifted Hands.” She had just learned that her babies were stuck together and felt as if “a sick, ugly monster” was writhing inside of her. “I saw the babies [and] noticed only a huge head with two faces,” she told Bunte. “I thought: ‘My God, what will they look like, how will they live?’ ” She debated swallowing pills. She considered opening up the window of a tall building and jumping out. Instead, on Feb. 2, 1987, she gave birth to her boys. They weighed a combined 8 pounds and 14 ounces. They shared a head, but Theresia’s fear was replaced with a new emotion. “After studying the available information, I tentatively agreed to do the surgery knowing it would be the riskiest and most demanding thing I had ever done,” Carson wrote. “But I also knew it would give the boys a chance — their only chance — to live normally.” The Binder twins were lucky in that they had two brains. It meant that the surgery was at least feasible. “From the time we started discussing it, we all tried to keep in mind that we wouldn’t proceed with surgery unless we believed we had a good chance of separating the boys without damaging the neurological function of either baby,” Carson wrote in “Gifted Hands.” On Labor Day 1987, the 7-month-old twins — who, according to Newsweek had been “giggling and kicking since entering Hopkins on September 2” — went in for surgery. For four hours, heart surgeons inserted “hair-thin” tubes into their veins and connected them to heart-lung machines that would keep them alive through surgery. Plastic surgeons sliced into their scalp, removing the bone tissue that connected them. The cardiologists then cut open their chests and removed small amounts of tissue from their heart to use later to construct new veins. Doctors dropped the babies’ body temperature down to 68 degrees, stopping their hearts and allowing surgeons to operate without blood flow — the first time anyone had tried such a strategy for this type of surgery. A big clock on the wall counted down from an hour: Every minute without a heartbeat beyond the 60-minute mark threatened to cause irreparable damage to the boys. “When the hour is up, just turn the pumps back on,” Carson told his team, according to his book. “If they bleed to death then they’ll have bled to death, but we’ll know we did the best we could.” After Long gave him back his scalpel at the pivotal moment, Carson severed the primary thin blue vein that connected the twins. The doctors rapidly set about creating new veins from the heart tissue they had removed earlier. One twin was finished in 57 minutes, the other in 63. “It got pretty intense in there,” said Bruce Reitz, director of cardiac surgery, according to a Washington Post article from the time. “We tried not to look at the clock.” Separated for the first time in their lives, Benjamin and Patrick were placed in medically induced comas. The magnitude of this precarious success was lost on no one; a massive media scrum awaited the doctors as they emerged from the operation. “The success in this operation is not just in separating the twins,” said Mark Rogers, the director of the department of anesthesiology, at the news conference. “Success is producing two normal children.”
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Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by umuokezie(m): 8:56am On Jun 05, 2016 |
wonderful! |
Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by hoodboy(m): 9:17am On Jun 05, 2016 |
OP is a liar, read the article the twins never went on to live a normal life, plus that's not their picture up there and from the article, one of the twins is dead. 1 Like |
Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by LOVEGINO(m): 9:32am On Jun 05, 2016 |
Impossicant! |
Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by Nature8(m): 10:01am On Jun 05, 2016 |
Interesting.. |
Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by queenoflafia(f): 10:02am On Jun 05, 2016 |
Wow He is worthy of celebration |
Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by bjt(m): 10:05am On Jun 05, 2016 |
Gifted hands indeed |
Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by mikky234(m): 12:08pm On Jun 05, 2016 |
hoodboy:you're actually the liar or u don't have ur facts right |
Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by moredollar(m): 12:45pm On Jun 05, 2016 |
This is a misleading topic. One of the twins is dead, and the other twin isn't normal. Google is ur friend..... |
Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by OsoDupe(f): 1:36pm On Jun 05, 2016 |
Op, go and Google those twins, they are not the one up there, their parents are even blaming Dr Carson for separating them. 1 Like |
Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by Nobody: 1:41pm On Jun 05, 2016 |
Only a super genius will separate these babies successfully.. And I don't think such human exists except for may be the old scientists like Einstein the great, and Isaac newton. |
Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by hoodboy(m): 10:19pm On Jun 05, 2016 |
mikky234: if you actually read the story from the source, you won't sound so ignorant |
Re: PHOTO: Separated Conjoined Twins 29yrs Ago Celebrate Their Doctor by Nobody: 10:37pm On Jun 05, 2016 |
Freegift75:Patrick and Benjamin Binder (born February 2, 1987) were conjoined twins , joined at the head, born in Germany in early 1987, and separated at Johns Hopkins Hospital on September 7, 1987.[1] They were the first twins to be successfully separated by neurosurgeon Ben Carson , of Baltimore, Maryland. For this operation Carson was able to prepare by studying a three dimensional physical model of the twins' anatomy. Carson described this separation as the first of its kind, with 23 similar attempted separations ending in the death of one or both twins. Although Carson was able to separate the boys, they were both left profoundly disabled. The Associated Press reported, in 1989, two years after the separation that Patrick remained in a "vegetative state", following the surgery. [2] He never came out of his coma. According to a 2015 Washington Post article, he "died sometime in the last decade." [3] Benjamin recovered to a certain extent.[2] The Washington Post reported that Peter Parlagi, the twins' younger half-brother, said the twins' father was emotionally unable to ever handle them, or share in their care. [3] He said the twin's father became an alcoholic, spent all the couple's funds, and left their mother destitute and alone. She was forced to institutionalize them. In a 1993 interview, their mother, Theresia Binder, described guilt for agreeing to the operation that ruined the boys' prospect of ever having any quality of life. [3] According to the Washington Post's 2015 interview with Parlagi, Benjamin never learned to speak or feed himself, but he does enjoy visitors, and being taken for walks. Op stop lying 1 Like |
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