Separated children were yesterday egresadas hospital

Maria Teresa and Teresa María Tapia received discharge from the Paediatric Hospital of Richmond. Doctors, nurses and all staff that attended gave girls, her mother and her aunt a warm farewell.

The 20-month-old girls were separated from November 8 through a complex operation that lasted nearly a day at the Paediatric Hospital of Richmond, at the University of the Commonwealth of Virginia.

In a sequence of procedures, the surgical team divided the liver, pancreas and other organs girls shared when they were United and rebuilt them the abdominal wall to each one.

Both remain in Richmond and will be treated as outpatient patients so that they reaprendan to walk and to reorient their movements now that they are not United bodily. Is expected that they will be able to return to u000athe Dominican Republic before Christmas

"(Girls) already enjoy life now that they were separate", said his mother, Lisandra Sanatis. "They enjoy seen as (independent) people".

Although both just become accustomed to explore separately your environment, still close to each other and are taken in hand when moving.

Due to who have stayed several months in Richmond, Sanatis said that she and her daughters are more than willing to stop the closure of the hospital and wish to forward return with his family to his country home.

"Miss our family." "Girls miss his brother Lisander", expressed Sanatis.

Girls have not become accustomed to the U.S., including food from the hospital, and prefer to give them food Dominican as the traditional dish of rice and beans, among others.

Number of Idol persons have expressed their support, including Rocío Castaños, a friend of the first u000aLady Michelle Obama, who visited Thursday the twins in the last full day of permanence of both in the hospital

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