Anytime a baby has to undergo surgery, it is an incredibly stressful time for parents. The Hernandez-Torres family had to deal with exponential levels of this stress when two of their babies underwent a rare surgery at the same time.
Ximena and Scarlett Hernandez-Torres were born conjoined below the waist, and have been under the care of Driscoll Children’s Hospital in Corpus Christi since hours after their birth. At 11 months old, the two underwent major surgery to separate them last week. This procedure is rare, and it was the first conjoined sibling separation surgery performed at this hospital.
In the first two hours of the surgery, nine surgeons were able to separate the sisters. The full surgery lasted 15 hours, and will be followed by more surgeries to reconstruct the colon and bladders that the Ximena and Scarlett shared.
“You couldn’t ask for better doctors,” the girls’ father told WPTV. “From the beginning, I knew they were going to take good care of my girls.”
The case of the Hernandez-Torres family is particularly unique, because Scarlett and Ximena are part of a set of identical triplets. They are now another happy success story of conjoined twin separation, a procedure intended to let them live fuller lives.
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