Posted on 12/07/2019 9:27:17 AM PST by steveben
“ one of my heads always seems to sabotage the other.“
LOL, ain’t it the truth!
It would have to be two very cool men
I think one man they both like might work better
I could kiss two women like that...I think
It’s tricky isn’t it
If they have separate men they will feel sex anyhow given the anatomy
But it’ll take a special man with a kind heart and patience
Amen!
I’d hit that at least twice...
Apparently all conjoined twins are identical twins. That means that the tissues throughout have identical genetics.
Although that means that the liver of one would be indistinguishable from the liver of the other, it may well be that the complex physiology of the twins results in many combinations of form, function and utility.
For example, the right leg is controlled by the right twin and vice versa. I presume that the sensation of touch is similarly divided.
Although the chest cavity itself appears to be shared, obviously the left twin's head is positioned less advantageously. This could suggest an asymmetrical sharing arrangement for the chest cavity below, possibly suggesting that some of the chest structures were originally part of the right twin.
The same thing may well apply to the reproductive organs. It may be that one twin or the other originally produced those organs and that the nerves serving them may not be symmetrical. If this is so then it may be that the twins will not be "sharing" one sex life.
Another example might be the lungs. It is said that there are three lungs. I don't think that automatically suggests that the twins are "sharing" one of the lungs. When the twins originally formed, it may be that the third lung belonged to one twin or the other and the present structure may not be symmetrical.
The Wiki article on them suggests that there are four lungs. " ... 4 lungs with the medial lungs moderately fused, not involving Brittany's upper right lobe". Note how the article describes the asymmetrical structure and origin of the "fused" lungs.
The comments about the diaphragm and automatic breathing is interesting. If there were two signals to the diaphragm, with the two twins opposing each other, then that would make for very ineffective breathing. Apparently that is not a problem.
It is amazing. And everybody else thinks they got it rough.
Pretty fascinating. Imagine the girls snorkeling. Since they share a circulatory system either of the girls could close off her airways and yet the other could supply enough oxygen to support life. The girls have a very small chance of choking to death with such redundancy.
I don't recall seeing anything about sleeping. They have to cooperate to walk, so the twins must be sedentary when either sleeps. Can they sleep different hours?
I sometimes suffer a sudden and relatively violent sneeze. That could be interesting to find out what happens when one of them sneezes. I mean no disrespect to the twins, but I couldn't help thinking of Tim Conway.
Lovely ladies. I like their spirit.
interesting
Good for them. This can be an inspirational story.
But, I have always wondered, what is it like to be stomach sick as a Siamese twin?!?!?
An awful thought, but what if one of them dies before the other?
I actually saw the twins a few times at a gym in the Minneapolis suburbs; didn’t get up the nerve to speak to them.
I always wondered, how do they handle sleeping? Presumably, sleeping on the left or the right would cause problems unless someone supplied a special double-decker pillow kind of like a bookcase with padded shelves.
But it’s really none of my business, is it?
Yup. Just reading about it makes my head spin.
Hats off to the parents who met this huge challenge in raising such girls, with different personalities, to work together as they have and do. It gives another meaning to ‘where there is a will there’s a way’.....
Ray Bradbury wrote a short story dealing with that. I don’t recall the title but it’s in that huge red volume that has 100 of his stories.
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