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Conjoined twins separated, out of comas and ‘neurologically sound’

The conjoined twins separated in Australia have both come of out of their comas, their prognosis ‘really really good’.
It took two years of planning, a 16-member medical team, 25 hours of separation surgery, and six hours of reconstructive surgery, but previously conjoined twins Krishna and Trishna are now separated. Both girls are “neurologically sound” after [...]

Conjoined twin sisters: Trishna able to speak as Krishna still in coma

Trishna and Krishna, the Bangladeshi conjoined twin sisters separated this week, are both doing well, though Trishna is awake and acting normally, in fact, “phenomenally good” the head of the surgery team said.
Wirginia Maixner, director of neurosurgery at the Royal Children’s Hospital in Melbourne said Trishna is already doing well enough that she could leave [...]

Short-term memory leaves mother unable to remember baby

Short-term memory loss caused by a bout of meningitis has a mother resorting to write a daily diary of her interactions with her baby.
On Christmas day of 2005, Karen Wilkinson-Wigham felt poorly, suffering from severe migraines. A few days later, she was in a coma, having contracted tubercular meningitis, an infection that attacks the central [...]

Amy Pickard of, “The Waking Pill” dies after 8 year coma

Amy Pickard, 25, has died after an eight year coma, in which she birthed and lost a baby after an experimental phase of drug use in 2001.
Just 17-years-old, a teen from Hastings in East Sussex, she and a friend were discovered in a locked cubicle at public toilets, both had collapsed.
Amy Pickard lost oxygen to [...]

Baby’s voice rouses mother to fight for her life

The baby’s voice gave a UK woman the will to survive while fighting a brutal E. coli infection.
“I wanted to die,” said librarian Karen Morrisroe-Clutton, resident of Wrexham. After contracting an E. coli infection—most likely from a local fish bar—Karen went into seizures, had kidney failure, and had to be put into a medically-induced coma [...]

Twins Born 51 Hours Apart Celebrate Their First Birthday

Hayley Phillips had to endure another 51 hours of labor after her first son was delivered until the second twin decided to make his way into the world.
Like any woman, Hayley Phillips was expecting her second twin to be delivered shortly after the first, but for her that was not the case. It took another [...]