Twins joined at head successfully separated

This is an amazing story from Melbourne, Australia, on MSNBC News.
Trishna and Krishna, twin Bangladeshi girls, 2-years-old, were attached at the top of their heads. They shared blood vessels and even brain tissue. Tuesday these brave girls had a 25 hour surgery done to separate the two of them and it was very successful. This was a marathon operation, that included 16 surgeons and nurses but it is too soon to see if the girls will have any brain damage from being separated. One of the doctors said there was a 50/50 chance of the surgery working. The report says, "The girls will remain in an induced coma for monitoring for several days after the completion of the surgery." The next step is reconstructive surgery, where plastic surgeons will reconstruct the 2-year-old girls' skulls using some of their own skins, bone grafts and artificial materials. Before the surgery was done, doctors said, "There was a 50% chance the girls could suffer brain damage and a 25% chance one of the sisters would die." The report said, "They were found in an orphanage in Bangladesh in 2007 by a representative from the Children First Foundation, who brought them to Australia."

My first response to this story was happiness. This is such an amazing story that everyone should read.

I'm not sure how many surgeries like this one are done, but you never hear about them in the news like this very often. This is definitely a miracle. These girls shared the same blood, they shared the same skull, and they even shared the same brain tissue. Honestly, if these were my girls, that would have been the hardest decision of our lives. There was a 50 percent chance these girls would have brain damage; this by itself is such a hard thing to think about. Let alone the fact that there was a 25 percent chance one of the girls could have died. I think both of those numbers are way too high for me to go through with. I think I may have waited a few years just to make sure there wouldn't be better surgeries out there in the future. It would have been hard for the girls when they started school, because other kids have probably never seen anything like that, so they may have had a hard time fitting in, especially as harsh as kids are these days. But I know I would have regretted not getting the surgery if it were my decision, because look at the outcome. These girls are now separated, and now have the chance to have separate lives, and be normal like all the other kids. I'm sure it will be hard to get used to everything the new way. They have gone 2 years being attached to each other and now they have a whole new lifestyle ahead of them. Plus this will probably be a lot easier on the parents who adopt them in the future. It was so sad that they were found in an orphanage. That means their mother/father gave them up. I'm sorry, but I don't care what my child looks like when he/she comes out. That is my child and I would love them unconditionally.

I hope and pray that these girls will go to a good home and have every positive outcome possible from this experience.