For 31 hours, surgeons, orthopedists, urologists, and anesthesiologists worked to separate the sisters, restore the organs, and redistribute tissues.

Each girl received one leg and a separate intestinal tract. The outcome was successful: both survived and gradually began to recover.

After the surgery, their life was not easy. Numerous rehabilitation procedures, medical monitoring, and constant parental support were required.

But the sisters grew up, went to school, and managed to adapt. In their teenage years, they lived almost a normal life, despite the limitations left by the surgery.

The year 2021 was particularly symbolic. Charity, now an adult, gave birth to her daughter Alora at the same Seattle hospital where she and her sister had been separated twenty years earlier.

Moreover, Dr. John Waldhausen, the surgeon who participated in their life-changing operation, was once again part of her medical team.