8 Limbed Girl
It’s been shown through out the news, but I felt that it would be neat to do a blog about this remarkable story of the girl famous for her 6 legs that were attached to her body after her birth. From what the doctors have researched, she was supposed to share her mother’s womb with two other infants. Unfortunately, something went genetically during the pregnancy, causing the other baby to conjoin with the second baby. This baby was named Lakshmi Tatma, and became the new interest of the public eye. Her unique story became nation wide, as the world listened to her fascinating story
In 2007, at two years old, Lakshmi had her extra legs and arms removed at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore. At team of 30 surgeons helped this little girl start the journey of living a normal life. After the 27-hour surgery, doctors informed the media that her recovery is going to be a lengthy and difficult recovery, but that it’ll be worth it, and that their client will have no problems with the healing process.
When I first heard about this little girl’s story, I didn’t even know what to think. I had never heard of someone actually having that many extra limbs. I should different articles to some of my friends, and some of them had actually heard of the story. I hadn’t done much research into it, but one of my friends told me that the little girl was even worshiped by her people. Her body symbolized a great god in her country. In some ways, I can understand why people would worship her, if she resembled someone worshiped in her religion, but then I was told people didn’t want her to get the surgery done just because of that. I personally think that’s not fair, and incredibly unhealthy and dangerous to live with something that could be dysfunctional. But I guess it still caused a lot of controversy, and it made me sad to think that poor girl didn’t have any say in what she wanted to do, because she was only two at the time.
It’s been shown through out the news, but I felt that it would be neat to do a blog about this remarkable story of the girl famous for her 6 legs that were attached to her body after her birth. From what the doctors have researched, she was supposed to share her mother’s womb with two other infants. Unfortunately, something went genetically during the pregnancy, causing the other baby to conjoin with the second baby. This baby was named Lakshmi Tatma, and became the new interest of the public eye. Her unique story became nation wide, as the world listened to her fascinating story
In 2007, at two years old, Lakshmi had her extra legs and arms removed at the Sparsh Hospital in Bangalore. At team of 30 surgeons helped this little girl start the journey of living a normal life. After the 27-hour surgery, doctors informed the media that her recovery is going to be a lengthy and difficult recovery, but that it’ll be worth it, and that their client will have no problems with the healing process.
When I first heard about this little girl’s story, I didn’t even know what to think. I had never heard of someone actually having that many extra limbs. I should different articles to some of my friends, and some of them had actually heard of the story. I hadn’t done much research into it, but one of my friends told me that the little girl was even worshiped by her people. Her body symbolized a great god in her country. In some ways, I can understand why people would worship her, if she resembled someone worshiped in her religion, but then I was told people didn’t want her to get the surgery done just because of that. I personally think that’s not fair, and incredibly unhealthy and dangerous to live with something that could be dysfunctional. But I guess it still caused a lot of controversy, and it made me sad to think that poor girl didn’t have any say in what she wanted to do, because she was only two at the time.
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