THE 5TH MOST FASCINATING MEDICAL MIRACLE.

MOTHER WHO HAD TO CHOOSE TO SAVE
ONE TWIN, GOT TO KEEP BOTH AFTER DISCONNECTING BLOOD VESSEL.
Shannon& Mike Gimbel faced
an
agonizing choice.
Doctors told them on the twin girls they
were expecting needed to
be
terminated or both would die.
Doctors @ Swedish medical centre
had diagnosed
Gimbel's twins with
Twin-to-Twin syndrome,or
TTTS.
It is a condition which the twins are connected by blood vessels.
One twin literally drains
the life out of the other.
Left untreated there is 80% .-90%
chance that
one or both will die.
Shannon & Mike were struggling with the suggestion to terminate the weaker baby,when their physician @ Swedish medical centre, Dr Kent Heyborne, approached them with another
option.
He'd made contact with Dr. Robert
Bell &Dr. Michael Belfort of St mark's hospital in salt lake
city,UTAH. The utah surgeons teamed with those @ swedish to perform laser surgery in the
womb to couterize the blood vessel that were connecting,and slowly killing the twins.


Shannon says she remembers holding her
breath as
nurse used an ultra-sound to listen for heartbeats after the surgery.
One,then another.
Both girls had made it.
Reese & Mckenna Gimbel were
born @ swedish 2 months later.