Conjoined twin sisters who doctors said had a slim chance of survival are now preparing for their first day at school.
Rosie and Ruby Formosa were joined at the abdomen and shared part of their
intestine before they had an emergency operation to separate them in 2012.
Parents Daniel and Angela Formosa, from Bexleyheath in
Kent, could only wait and hope as their daughters underwent a five-hour
operation at London's Great
Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH).
Thankfully it was successful - and Mrs Formosa
said the girls had now met their teacher and were "very
excited" to be following big sister Lily, who is nine, to school.
Angela, thought she would never see the day. She said:
‘Four years ago it wasn’t in my mind that this would ever happen.’
Professor Paolo De Coppi, consultant paediatric surgeon
at Gosh, said: “We’re thrilled that Rosie and Ruby are starting school this
September.
“It’s always a joy to witness patients’ progress and to
hear that they are reaching new milestones – this makes the job we do all the
more rewarding.”
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