Siamese have been separated and now live each with one leg

April 24, 2019

The sisters were operated on at the age of four and the doctors performed an unprecedented operation, despite the significant risks involved.

Kendra and Maliyah Herrin Siamese were born in 2002, in the city of Salt Lake City, Utah (United States). The specialists warned their parents that by sharing the abdomen, pelvis, liver, kidneys and large intestine, their chances of survival were very low..

After four years and after several medical consultations, the parents of the girls accepted the surgical separation on the doctors' warning. They badured that this intervention would give greater independence to the little ones and a much greater life opportunity, but the risk of death in the operation was also very large.

Even like that, Jake and Erin they agreed to have their daughters intervene and after 26 hours of work in the operating room, Kendra and Maliyah They survived this unprecedented operation.

Before the surgery, the Siamese had learned to move together, each controlling one leg but now, at age 17, they lead a life similar to that of any other teenager.

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"When people hear our story for the first time, they like to ask us a lot of questions," the girls said in the interview. BBC

Kendra and Maliyah They quickly adapted to the walker that they used to get around and make sure they never feel discriminated against at school: "The high school has been very good so far.We have never been discriminated against at school.We are lucky.".

She was lying watching a movie, she was snuggling her neck and something awful had happened that had changed her life.

In the same way, Kendra He jokes about his situation when he lives with one leg: "The best thing about having only one leg in each is that we only have to paint our toenails."