Separated Twins
Preparing For Their
Return Home
It's been six months
since Yurelia and
Fiorella Rocha Arias
have been under close
care of doctors as one,
they will be coming home
as two, after doctors at
the Stanford
University's Lucile
Packard Children's
Hospital successfully
separated the conjoined
twins in November.
The two little girls are
now doing fine on their
own and doctors have
cleared them fro travel
back to Costa Rica.
"I feel very happy and
content," said their,
Maria Elizabeth Arias,
at a hospital press
conference yesterday.
"My girls were born anew
in this hospital."
The twins were brought
to the United States by
Mending Kids
International, a
non-profit organization
that is underwriting
their transportation and
housing.
The Packard hospital
agreed to evaluate
Yurelia and Fiorella
after a Southern
California hospital
declined to take the
case. The hospital paid
for the treatment.
The girls shared a liver
and heart and the girls'
prospect was grim
according to doctors,
who had given them only
a 50 percent change of
surviving the surgery.
But they have survived
and are recovering at a
fast pace.
The girls are now
separate individuals,
but their personalities
haven't changed, their
mother said.
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