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CONJOINED TWINS DO not have high survival rates – so for one pair of formerly conjoined sisters to celebrate 10 birthdays is a huge milestone.
The Guatemalan twins, Maria de Jesus and Maria Teresa Quiej-Alvarez, came to worldwide attention when they were separated in 2002 in a 23-hour surgery at the University of California Los Angeles Medical Center.
Today they celebrate their 10th birthday with a party at a private home in Malibu.
Invited to the party were members of the 50-person operating-room team, as well as the girls’ school friends.
Jenny Hull, an executive board member of Mending Kids International, the organisation that arranged the $1. 5 million surgery, says the girls’ survival is nothing short of a miracle.
- AP
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Really lovely story, heartwarming.
It’s nice to read good news for a change :)
This is lovely to read .
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