May.15.2008 9 year-old girl has her twin in her stomach
Twins are kind of creepy in general. It’d bother me to have a carbon copy of myself out there in the world, probably because it would create like a black hole of awesome that would deprive part of the world of any additional awesomeness lest the world collapse on itself. Where was I? Oh yeah, some little girl had her undeveloped twin in her stomach.
A 9-year-old girl who went to hospital in central Greece suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors said Thursday.
Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they later discovered was an embryo more than two inches long.
“They could see on the right side that her belly was swollen, but they couldn’t suspect that this tumor would hide an embryo,” hospital director Iakovos Brouskelis said.
Andreas Markou, head of the hospital’s pediatric department, said the embryo was a formed fetus with a head, hair and eyes, but no brain or umbilical cord.
I kind of always assumed every twin secretly wants to kill their counterpart and go “THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE” so I’m not really surprised by this. I assume the surviving twin would become some sort of Highlander, all-powerful and potentially immortal.
Whatever though this isn’t really news. Not only because this happens in one out of every 500k live births, but also because like, who hasn’t had an undeveloped fetus in their stomach? I don’t know where I’d be if I didn’t eat an aborted fetus a day. Probably much less unstoppable, I’d presume.
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