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Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:40 PM Oct 2016

story of heroes on "Ignore" by most of MSM (except CNN):

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/14/health/conjoined-twins-separation-surgery/

Update: Conjoined twins separated, both out of surgery

New York (CNN)After 27 hours of surgery, twin boys Anias and Jadon McDonald -- born joined at the head 13 months ago -- began a new life apart on Friday.

The round-the-clock operation at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx began Thursday morning and ended Friday. The separation procedure itself lasted 16 hours, followed by more hours of surgery to rebuild their skulls and make them whole.
Jadon was the first of the boys to be finished. He was wheeled out of the operating room around 7:40 a.m. on a stretcher, his perfectly shaped head wrapped in white gauze.
He was taken on an elevator to the pediatric intensive care unit on the 10th floor, where he was reunited with his parents, Nicole and Christian McDonald.
"My boy," Christian said with tears in his eyes.
Nicole bent over in tears.
More than five hours later, around 1 p.m., surgeons finished operating on Anias, and he was taken to the 10th floor unit -- where the family was finally reunited.

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CNN has been documenting their story since after they were born. The determination of the parents, supporters, neurosurgeon and his team should lift everyone's spirits. I'm using a tissue right now.

(I bet the team spoke of nothing but the surgery while in theater. No "we're going to have an affair" comments or breaking sterile protocols to cop a feel.)
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story of heroes on "Ignore" by most of MSM (except CNN): (Original Post) Ilsa Oct 2016 OP
I can only imagine how difficult sharp_stick Oct 2016 #1
What amazing doctors! redwitch Oct 2016 #2
Trump is stealing so much attention. Ilsa Oct 2016 #3

sharp_stick

(14,400 posts)
1. I can only imagine how difficult
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 02:45 PM
Oct 2016

the last 24 hours have been for the parents. I really hope the kids are OK.

Ilsa

(61,695 posts)
3. Trump is stealing so much attention.
Fri Oct 14, 2016, 03:19 PM
Oct 2016

I had hoped that this story would survive a few hours in GD to give folks a happy story. But it'll probably sink again.

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