With the rapid development of medical technology, most conjoined babies can be separated by surgery and let them live a normal life.
Therefore, modern conjoined babies rarely grow up in conjoined state.
But the separation of conjoined twins is also risky.
Many babies with large conjoined areas will face the possibility of losing one of their children after separation.
Therefore, when Lingling and Longlong were born in June 2006, their mother Yang Wei was faced with such a choice.
-Is it for the safety of children's lives, so that they can grow up in conjoined state? Or risk separating them?
No matter which one you choose, Yang Wei can't make up his mind.
Because Lingling and Longlong are conjoined twins, unlike other children.
Even in conjoined babies, it is very rare and the risk of separation is great.
On June 19, 2009, Yang Wei, 2 1 year old, had a caesarean section in a town health center in Yunmeng County, Xiaogan City, Hubei Province.
Yang Wei married her husband Zhang Jianjun shortly after they met and fell in love, and she became pregnant when she was young.
At that time, the couple were very happy and excited, full of illusions about the future of parents.
What they didn't expect was that their children were so different from others' children.
After caesarean section, a pair of twin girls were born.
The joy of being a parent only lasted for a moment in Yang Wei and her husband's heart, and then their hearts were shrouded in worry-the two children were connected by the sciatic bone and could not be separated.
In a few days after the baby was born, the doctor did the corresponding examination on the premise of ensuring the baby's safety.
The results of the inspection made Yang Wei and his wife even more uncomfortable.
According to the examination, the large intestine, colon, anus and urethra of two babies were used. Although the bladder meridian is separate, it is also interconnected. Fortunately, the other organs of the body are independent of each other.
This has brought great inconvenience to children.
This supply of intraocular organs has brought great inconvenience to children.
Usually, the two children can only lie facing the ceiling, and their small bodies are straight. If they want to sit up, they must face each other
Such conjoined babies are extremely rare.
According to statistics, the incidence of conjoined babies is about one in two hundred thousand, so the incidence of conjoined twins sitting on the joints is only one in two million.
At that time, there were only 8 cases of conjoined twins recorded in the world, and Yang Wei's children became one of them.
What should I do? This problem makes Yang Wei and his wife very worried.
The couple are still young and have not established a stable income channel.
Yang Wei's husband Zhang Jianjun is a welder. He can only earn more than 1000 a month, and he also needs to rent a house and daily expenses.
This economic situation makes both people think that raising one child is enough, and it is difficult to raise two children.
If we want to separate conjoined twins, they may not be able to afford the high cost of surgery.
What's more, the separation of conjoined babies is a very complicated operation, which can easily lead to the death of one of the two children if you are not careful.
The operation of conjoined twins is even more difficult.
No matter how you think about it, Yang Wei feels that it is difficult to do surgery.
But without surgery, children will not grow up healthily, have an ordinary life in the future, and may even be unable to walk all their lives.
In the end, Yang Wei made the biggest decision a mother can make: No matter what the outcome, the operation must be done.
She named her two children Lingling and Longlong, hoping that they could get rid of their natural defects and become delicate and lovely girls after the operation.
With the mother's consent, the hospital began to gather experts and professors from different fields, and planned a whole set of surgical plans for conjoined baby girls in view of the special circumstances of Lingling and Longlong.
However, because the child is too young to operate, the doctor suggested waiting until four months later when the child is stronger than when he was born.
165438+1October 17, 2009, is a day that decides the fate of two children.
Yang Wei and Zhang Jianjun were very upset when they watched the two children being pushed into the operating room.
These months together have made Lingling and Longlong an indispensable part of the couple's life.
They can't help but imagine how gloomy their life would be if there were an accident during the operation and if one or both children were missing.
Doctors and nurses, on the other hand, don't think so much, and concentrate entirely on the operation.
From 7: 30 in the morning, more than 30 professors from 8 departments of the hospital/KLOC-0 began to operate on Lingling and Xiaolong one after another.
This large-scale operation lasted nearly 15 hours until 10 pm. The two children were in danger of being out of breath at one time.
The doctor gave Yang Wei and Zhang Jianjun a critical notice outside the operating room.
The news almost knocked Yang Wei down, and it was the good people around her who kept cheering for her, so she survived.
Finally, the operation was a complete success, and the two children were transferred from the operating table to the intensive care unit for 24 hours.
Although not out of danger, there is no one missing from the operating table, which makes Yang Wei and Zhang Jianjun cry with joy.
To everyone's delight, although there was a little accident during the operation, both children were in very good condition after the operation.
In the intensive care unit, the indicators of the two children are relatively stable.
My sister had a fever of 39 degrees, which was a normal reaction after the operation.
On the sixth day after operation, the wounds on Lingling and Longlong were still inflamed.
However, it is no longer necessary to live in the intensive care unit and transfer to the general ward for 24-hour monitoring.
165438+1On October 23rd, Yang Wei and Zhang Jianjun saw their two children again after six days respectively.
The last time I saw Lingling and Longlong, the two children were still in the state of sciatic connection.
Now, like ordinary babies, the two children can look at each other or see their mother together, which makes Yang Wei almost cry.
In the first month after returning to the general ward, the two children couldn't eat and lived on nutrition needles.
Nurses stay around the clock 24 hours a day, always alert to Lingling and Longlong's physical accidents.
Doctors also come to check the situation several times a day to monitor the child's recovery ability.
A month later, the attending doctor made a comprehensive diagnosis of Lingling and Longlong, and after discussing with other experts, they agreed that:
Lingling and Longlong have passed the critical period and can live a normal life. They can leave the hospital and go home.
At this point, Lingling and Longlong became the first conjoined baby girl in China who survived after operation, setting a new record in the medical history of China.
However, although the two children survived, in order to live a normal life in the future, they need a second operation to excrete normally.
Yang Wei and Zhang Jianjun originally thought that the most difficult separation operation was successful, and the operation problems in the second stage should not be serious.
But the accident happened at this time.
Lingling and Longlong are twins. They both eat the same thing when they go home, but with the growth of age, Sister Longlong is obviously shorter than Sister Lingling.
Yang Wei didn't know what was going on at first. Gradually, she found that her sister's physical condition was often worse than her sister's.
After taking two children to the hospital for examination, the doctor said that my sister was fine.
However, there were congenital difficulties at the beginning of the operation, which led to my sister's poor health.
It turns out that Lingling and Longlong have a drainage system. When the hospital does separation surgery, it can only give this excretory system to one of the sisters.
After repeated calculations and physical assessments of two children, experts and doctors finally decided that giving this system to my sister was the best choice.
The reason is that my sister was strong at that time, and in the event of an accident, the probability of survival was relatively high.
This is a cruel choice, but also a helpless choice.
So, some organs used by Lingling and Xiaolong were transferred to their sisters.
Of course, the doctor also made a corresponding alternative plan for my sister, so that both children can excrete smoothly, and they can also have a second operation in the future.
But at the age of one, only Lingling's physical condition reached the standard of operation, and Longlong's physical condition was not ideal.
Perhaps it was because the original surgical planning scheme was not perfect enough that my sister grew weaker than expected.
That's understandable. After all, this kind of operation has no precedent and little experience.
As a result, the two sisters who originally planned to do the second-stage operation together had to be isolated outside the operating room.
I watched my sister being pushed into the operating room and once cried at my mother, as if the two sisters were telepathic.
Yang Wei, holding her arms, comforted the child and felt uncomfortable.
I don't know, my sister was pushed into the operating room, and she didn't need a urine bag when she came out, but she still needed to carry a urine bag all the time.
Lingling's operation was very successful. After a period of observation in the hospital, she was taken home by Yang Wei.
Yang Wei is very happy to see Lingling getting better every day, and her guilt for Longlong is getting deeper and deeper.
Longlong is very sensible since he was a child, and he is the more lively of the two sisters.
After the separation operation, Yang Wei once watched the interaction between the two sisters in bed. Sister Lingling is often too lazy to move, and Sister Xiaolong pokes her face with a smile.
When I grow up, I will play with my sister. When I encounter any difficulties, I will stand in front of my sister.
However, in the initial operation, the organs used by the two sisters were given to the elder sister, which caused Xiaolong to carry a urine bag all the time during his growth.
Now that my sister can live a normal life, I still have to be troubled by my carry-on urine bag.
Every time I think about it, Yang Wei feels sorry for his children, especially his embarrassment.
In 20 16 years, six-year-old Longlong was finally able to have a second-stage operation.
This made Yang Wei feel very happy, but two hours after the operation began, the doctor came out and told Yang Wei that the second operation could not be done.
Because the physical condition is not suitable for the second-stage operation now, we have to wait until the physiological period, about fifteen years old.
In this way, Yang Wei returned home with Longlong and continued to wait for Longlong's 15th birthday.
By then, she will be free to run and jump.
Time flies, twelve years have passed.
In 2009, the first operation to separate conjoined baby girls that shocked China was a memory buried deep in people's memory.
Now Lingling is exquisite, and looks exactly like children of the same age. There is almost no difference.
In the twelve years of growing up, Lingling and Longlong did not have psychological problems because of their innate physiological characteristics, and their lives were very happy.
Sister Lingling is taller, stronger and calmer.
Because all the organs used by * * * were given to my sister, I am developing well and like to play around. My hobbies are art and sports.
My sister is obviously shorter than my sister, but she is more cheerful than my sister.
In other families, the elder sister usually takes care of the younger sister, but the twins take care of the elder sister.
In daily life, both my sister and my sister know that it is not easy for my mother to take care of herself, and they often scramble to do housework.
When grandma pushes the tricycle, the two children will also help push it together.
A few years ago, Yang Wei and Zhang Jianjun gave birth to a younger brother to Lingling and Longlong.
The two sisters looked at their new partners and were full of curiosity.
Later, Yang Wei sometimes didn't have time to take care of his son. Lingling and Xiaolong take care of their younger brother spontaneously, never bully him, and always report their younger brother's movements to their mother.
Because of the need for constant medical treatment and surgery during the growth process, Lingling and Longlong have some academic delays. They 12 years old are still in the fourth grade.
However, the academic performance of both children is very good, which makes Yang Wei very pleased.
The only thing that worries Yang Wei is that his body needs to carry a urine bag for 24 hours.
Yang Wei is afraid that children will be outspoken because of urine bag, and laugh at Longlong, causing psychological harm to Longlong.
This kind of worry is not unnecessary. Longlong was indeed laughed at by some children at school, especially a little boy who often bullied Longlong.
I am very sensible. I cried before telling my family. My family doesn't know what happened.
Yang Wei bought her a beautiful small bag in order to make her less hurt.
You can put the urine bag in your bag when you carry it on your back.
Every time Xiaolong is scolded by other children, Yang Wei will tell Xiaolong, "No, you are the cleanest child."
Although my sister Lingling is not very cheerful, she will stand up and help her every time she sees her sister being bullied.
Under the care of my mother and sister, despite all kinds of difficulties, my life has always been strong.
On March 8th Women's Day, 202 1, Yang Wei was cooking in the kitchen when she suddenly ran over and took out a red envelope from behind and handed it to her mother.
Yang Wei opened the red envelope with five dollars in it, which made her very moved.
Because of her ordinary family, Yang Wei usually gives Lingling little pocket money.
I spent very little, but I saved it to buy stationery. Sometimes they eat delicious snacks outside and buy some for their parents and grandma with pocket money.
This five yuan may be my pocket money that I have saved for some time.
This made Yang Wei feel that her daughter had grown up for an instant, and the twelve years' hard work was worth it.
Next, Yang Wei's only expectation is that he can successfully perform the second-stage operation after 15 years old, so that the child can have a normal adolescence.
When the two sisters were ten years old, the hospital held a birthday party to celebrate the healthy growth of their two children.
As soon as they entered the hospital, the two sisters seemed to be home. When they saw the doctors and nurses, their uncles and aunts kept screaming.
Over the years, the two sisters often come to the hospital for diagnosis because of physical reasons.
Hospital experts are optimistic about the second-stage operation.
At present, Longlong is in good health. As long as he reaches the right age and has no other major physical problems, the second-stage operation can be done.
As for the cost, the hospital reduced a lot when doing separation surgery.
Seeing Lingling Long's plight, all walks of life made voluntary donations to help Yang Wei's family through the most difficult period.
Now, Zhang Jianjun can earn thousands of dollars a month as a welder, and Yang Wei works in a supermarket from time to time, so they can cope with the cost of raising their children.
Once the operation-related expenses are encountered again, the local Red Cross will continue to help, and they have been raising money for Lingling.
After Lingling was born, many donors donated money.
These kind-hearted people watched the two children grow up and regarded Lingling as their own children, and they are willing to continue to help them in the future.
I believe that in the near future, after the second operation, the family will usher in a better life.
Let's give them our best wishes.