Lakshmi stable after marathon surgery – hindu.com: After a 27-hour surgery, two-year-old Lakshmi Tatma, the “eight-limbed” girl from Bihar, was finally separated from her parasitic twin at 10 a.m. on Wednesday. The child was brought to the Sparsh Hospital at Narayana Health City here from a remote village of Araria in Bihar.
The team of 36 doctors completed the surgery 13 hours ahead of the stipulated 40 hours.
“The parasitic part was removed from Lakshmi’s body. The pelvis and the perineum were reconstructed during the operation. She is doing well now and has been moved to the Intensive Care Unit. We expect her to be off the ventilator in the next two days,” Sharan Shivraj Patil, consultant orthopaedic surgeon and Chairman of the hospital, told The Hindu.
That is very cool they can do that….
SPIDER CHILD!!! oh wait not anymore
I thought they were supposed to have extra arms not legs.
Ah, improbus, you speak of Avalokiteshvara.
Wiki sayeth…
One prominent Buddhist story tells of Avalokiteśvara vowing never to rest until he had freed all sentient beings from samsara. Despite strenuous effort, he realizes that still many unhappy beings were yet to be saved. After struggling to comprehend the needs of so many, his head splits into eleven pieces. Amitabha Buddha, seeing his plight, gives him eleven heads with which to hear the cries of the suffering. Upon hearing these cries and comprehending them, Avalokiteśvara attempts to reach out to all those who needed aid, but found that his two arms shattered into pieces. Once more, Amitabha comes to his aid and invests him with a thousand arms with which to aid the suffering multitudes.[9]
Many Himalayan versions of the tale include eight arms with which Avalokiteśvara skilfully upholds the dharma, each possessing its own particular implement, while more Chinese-specific ones give varying accounts of this number.
Ask a silly question …
I don’t understand why they would want to amputate the extra limbs. It isn’t like she needed an extra hand or anything.