Eight month year old baby born with 8 limbs, thought to be the reincarnation of the 4 armed Hindu goddess Vishnu, prepares for surgery.
Parents Poonam Devi and Shambu Das gave birth to an 8-limbed daughter, named Lakshmi Tatma, on the celebration day of the Vishnu. Poonam Devi believed that her daugther, Lakshmi, was a miracle and a reincarnation of Vishnu.
Lakshmi was born fused together to her parasitic twin. The headless 'twin' is joined to Lakshmi at the pelvis and has its own spinal column and kidney. Without having an operation, Poonam Devi's daughter would never be able to walk or crawl. She would also most likely only live until her early teens.
Lakshmi will undergo surgery with 30 different surgeons, and will have her useless limbs removed.
"The operation itself, although presents several challenges, is not the most comples in the world. What is highly unusual in Lakshmi's case is precisely how her bodies are fused, almost mirroring each other," said Doctor Sharon Patil, who will be leading the surgery.In the end, the operation all together will cost about 100,000 p.
That's crazy! So after she has the surgery will her sister still be inside her?
ReplyDeletethat's really incredible, but still sad. i feel sorry for the girl=)
ReplyDeleteInteresting story, Kaya. I hope you don't mind, but I went in and added the picture from the original news story, so that your readers could see Lakshmi's condition.
ReplyDeleteThere are a couple of formatting issues to fix for your next post:
1. Make sure you identify the source of your story. You did link to it, but the reader has to search to find the link. Perhaps saying something like "according to an article from the London Evening Standard..." You could either hyperlink the word "article" or the name of the paper "London Evening Standard".
2. I would like you to give me a sentence or two explaining the relevance of this story. How does it relate to class? Why is this story noteworthy to you?
3. Make sure you label each of these posts "current event". As this blog grows, that will make it easier to go back and search for certain things.
Besides these few (admittedly nit-picky) things, this is another solid post. Thanks for sharing it with us. 22/25
so after the surgery will she be able to walk.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading about her when she was born, but they never said if she lived or not. That is going to be a very long surgery. Poor little girl.
ReplyDeletewow, that's amazing. so she can actually get a normal life? but to get it right, she had a headless twin, and the baby had her twins legs?
ReplyDeleteThe twin pelvis was facing hers, and she had no head. All they have to do I think is go in and separate the two pelvises. Inside of her were two complete sets of skeletons, but no her sister will no longer be inside of her. If you go onto the original website they show a diagram of how the skeletons were fused. It's pretty interesting.
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