A Girl with eight limbs

[postlink]https://med-mysteries.blogspot.com/2010/04/girl-with-eight-limbs.html[/postlink]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XM82Hs0LEpcendofvid [starttext] Lakshmi Tatma was born joined to a 'parasitic twin' and will go under the knife at the hands of 30 surgeons to remove two of her useless arms and legs. The headless 'twin' is joined to Lakshmi at the pelvis and has its own spinal column and kidney.

Without the operation the little girl would never be able to walk or crawl and would be unlikely to live past her early teens, doctors said. The extraordinary eight-limbed baby was born in a poverty-stricken region of Bihar, India - on the day devoted to the celebration of the four-armed Hindu deity Vishnu.

Her mother Poonam Tatma said she believed her daughter was "a miracle, a reincarnation" of Vishnu.
The condition is expalined here in Wikipedia [endtext]

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