Some consider it a curse, some even a mutation, but to Poonam, her two year old daughter Lakshmi Tatma is a blessing sent by the gods. Lakshmi was born with nearly another body (it's just missing a head) attached to her butt, somewhat like a mirror image, giving her a total of 8 functioning limbs. Wow, I found some of her picture peculiarly strange; can you imagine someone without a head stuck backwards from your butt? Take a look if you dare.

The Hindu goddess of wealth comes with 8 limbs, which is why when Lakshmi was born, the entire population from her tiny village of 500 inhabitants came for blessings. Of course, her mother is proud of giving birth to such a symbolic baby, but it is too bad that with her condition, Lakshmi won't live past adolescence.

For £100,000 and after many rejections from hospitals, Lakshmi have successfully found a gurney to have her bottom half cut off by 30 professional surgeons. It is said that this won't be a complicated process, but will require a lot of time.

The entire surgery will involve brutally slicing through her mid-section, restoring the kidney that is currently being shared between the two bodies, reorienting her bladder and genitals, and finally using plastic surgery to fix up her pelvis and skin. Really, this is one of the easier cases with attached identical twins, her x-ray reveals that she does have a fully functioning body with all the required body parts.

In fact, I believe that her surgery is going on right now. I wish her luck (she probably won't need any, being a reincarnation of a goddess) and I'll be looking forward for her results.

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1 Comment:

  1. Anonymous said...
    Apparently the surgery was okay.

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