Baby improving after doctors remove second head

[The Dark Elf]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10112005

Can't help but feel sad for the other child, even though supposedly there was no brain, she was still able to blink and smile. I dunno what to say to it really

 

[Edcrab]

This seems to be increasingly common with humans- we've long associated snakes and other reptiles with such advanced "birth defects" but I've read of four such cases in as many years. Perhaps we're just publicising them better.

One similar situation I recall- it has been documented but there's no actual proof, so I'm prepared to be disproven- regarded a semi-hermit in a Himalayan village. A researcher befriended him, and eventually realised that the "hunched shoulder" he kept shrouded in sackcloth was in fact a second, fully-formed head.

Mercifully it lacked a brain or vocal chords, but it had one twitching eye and, just ocassionaly, the lips would move. Presumably an example of what happens when such a left-over isn't operated on...

 

[The Dark Elf]

This seems to be increasingly common with humans- we've long associated snakes and other reptiles with such advanced "birth defects" but I've read of four such cases in as many years. Perhaps we're just publicising them better.

One similar situation I recall- it has been documented but there's no actual proof, so I'm prepared to be disproven- regarded a semi-hermit in a Himalayan village. A researcher befriended him, and eventually realised that the "hunched shoulder" he kept shrouded in sackcloth was in fact a second, fully-formed head.

Mercifully it lacked a brain or vocal chords, but it had one twitching eye and, just ocassionaly, the lips would move. Presumably an example of what happens when such a left-over isn't operated on...

I don't think its happening more often, i think the media is reporting it more often and science is begining to understand it more whereas in the past they were labeled freaks and apart from sideshows nobody really knew about it.

I've heard similar stories about the second head on the shoulder, i think it is entirely possible, they share the same organs to a point and I think some have gone on to live a long time.

 

[burnzie]

Thats incredible.

 

[evil^milk]

wow, interesting

was the other head alive, and is it living now?

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

I'm trying to be as nice as possible considering my condision at the moment..., baby feels better after removal of second head! :O I mean come on...



Like TDE said, its not more often with humans, its just that the media repots it and also the population of humans is relatively massive.

 

[Edcrab]

True, I suppose when you begin to eliminate ignorance and the taboo nature of such developments you allow for further coverage.

Human "mutations" (yes, I'm using inverted commas purely to avoid being labelled fascist, I consider it a perfectly normal term) are a fascinating- if sometimes tragic- subject. The sooner we embrace them and cast aside notions of deformity the better.

 

[The Dark Elf]

wow, interesting

was the other head alive, and is it living now?

I think only the fully formed baby survived.

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Yeah A single head survivng on its own would be...well, really it would just be weird, as well as impossible.

 

[lePobz]

Yeah A single head survivng on its own would be...well, really it would just be weird, as well as impossible.

Not in a jar it isn't.

 

[burnzie]

Ron popeil invented that you know...

 

[Ikerous]

They shoulda cut off both heads to see whatd happen
Perhaps a new one would pop outta its neck or something

 

[Brian Damage]

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=5&ObjectID=10112005

Can't help but feel sad for the other child, even though supposedly there was no brain, she was still able to blink and smile. I dunno what to say to it really

Sounds like it had a brain to me, but they removed the extra head because the angle at and way in which it was growing could have caused complications later. Poor thing.

Alfy said the 13-strong surgical team separated Manar's brain from the conjoined organ in small stages, cutting off the blood supply to the extra head while preventing increased blood flow to Manar's heart, which would have risked cardiac arrest.

I'd interpret that as meaning the little girls' brain was being separated from that of her partial twin.

[EDIT] Ikerous, that was tasteless.

 

[Danimal]

Wow. Just... Wow.

 

[Ikerous]

Ikerous, that was tasteless.

XD I'm gonna assume i'm the only one who thinks having two heads is funny and stay outta this thread...
::Sets her pic as an active desktop icon::

 

[PvtRyan]

They shoulda cut off both heads to see whatd happen
Perhaps a new one would pop outta its neck or something

zomg hydra kid!

 

[mortiz]

Well, that's just...weird!

I'm sorry, but imagine growing up knowing you were born with two heads.

 

[SupremePain]

Well, that's just...weird!

I'm sorry, but imagine growing up knowing you were born with two heads.

yeah.... that must be bloody weird :O


i don't see anything wrong with it though, as the head was lifeless. There basicly was no reason to keep it. Unless the girl wanted to practice putting on her makeup.... Sorry.