But it would have been more insightful and accurate. Had he tried this conjoined metaphor it is doubtful that he ever would have ascended to become President of the United States. Perhaps he should have suggested that rather than united, we are the “Conjoined States of America.” Barack Obama wasn’t exactly right when he proclaimed: “there is no red America and blue America there is only the United States of America.” Well, that’s not exactly the case if you’ve been paying attention to the news lately.
CONJOINED TWINS ABBY AND BRITTANY HENSEL TV
One could easily see them having their own reality TV show on TLC.įast forward to our last set of conjoined twins. Our imaginations start to run wild considering all the obvious challenges, obstacles and possibilities. They would like to get married one day, like Chang and Eng, and have kids. Brittany and Abby Hensel face a more daunting set of anatomical issues stemming from a very different but more medically challenging configuration: two heads, two arms, two legs, two hearts, three lungs, three kidneys, one liver, two stomachs, one bladder, one vagina, and one urethra. One might speculate whether they had lived in today’s world of medical miracles if they could have been successfully separated surgically.Īnother pair of famous conjoined twins are very much alive today. The Bunkers died in 1874 within three hours of each other. They forced Chang and Eng to have separate households: ultimately leading to the brothers splitting their time between their estranged wive-sisters. Our voyeuristic instincts and obsession with oddities left little to the imagination on how the four of them procreated but they certainly had it down, fathering a few shy of two dozen children between them. Chang and Eng got along quite well, but unfortunately, the sisters they married did not. They otherwise had all their own parts and lived relatively normal lives… all things considered.Ĭhang and Eng went on to marry a pair of physically normal sisters, Adelaide and Sarah Yates, respectively. Notwithstanding the obvious challenges of being joined at the hip, almost quite literally-technically they were joined at the sternum-they also shared inoperable, connected livers. and eventually became slave-owners (gulp).
Many might remember the famous conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker-the original Siamese twins born in 1811 who hailed from Siam but moved to the U.S.
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