Siamese twins discover 18 years later that their case was bogus
It was another day at Enfield town in the northern London borough of Enfield, but not for Mr. and Mrs. Jalapenovitch who have just been announced a week ago perhaps the most unexpected news in their life.
Mr. Kevin Jalapenovitch, of Serbian heritage, is a 48 year old businessman who has lived most of his life in Oakville, a town part of the Grand Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada. Kevin has fully succeeded in bringing the company he works in, NextWave Wireless, to a broader geographic level and has been transferred, him and his beloved wife and kids, to England, where he now lives in Enfield town. His wife, Elisabeth, is very busy taking care of her dear children, John and Romero, who are conjoined twins, joined apparently at the head.
"When I gave birth to John and Romero," says Elisabeth Jalapenovitch "the doctor first stared at the twins and then stared at me and said "Mrs. Jalapenovitch, I'm afraid there is a problem with your twins..." he stared more into my eyes and Kevin looked at me with perhaps the longest face I have ever seen. We didn't know what to do, all we could think of was if our babies would survive, if they would ever grow up, and if they do what would happen to their lives. All these questions just came rushing in our heads constantly for the first weeks until the doctor told us that nothing could be done. The babies were healthy and fine... but that's the way they would live forever. We didn't know what to do for them, but we knew we had to take care of them like normal kids, it was no reason for them to be different from any other child."
18 years have passed, and John and Romero, as healthy as ever, and already graduated but on a leap year, have lived a happy life and have bravely outcome its troubles and problems with perseverance and ambition.
Yet, it was not until last week on Tuesday that Elisabeth received a call from her new doctor in Enfield, Dr. Wiggleberring, after John and Romero had gone there for a yearly checkup. The news were stunning.
"He called me and said 'Mrs. Jalapenovitch, I'm not too sure how to say this. Your children are perfectly fine, in fact, they are finer than you could expect.'"
Indeed they were, it turns out that Dr. Wiggleberring has found out a remarkable trait about John and Romero, they were indeed joined at the head, but not at the skin, nor at the skull, nor at the brain, but at the hair. That's right. For 18 years now John and Romero have been conjoined twins, joined at the hair. A simple cut would have set them free since the beginning.
"We didn't know what to say to the boys," says Kevin after he learned the news. "We were afraid of their reaction, but we had to say it and the news was announced during dinner that night."
"I just couldn't hold my tears" explains Elisabeth, "after all these years, it was all a matter of hair, which the hair dressers never got to cut a lot around what we thought was the joined part!"
Then, next Friday, all Dr. Wiggleberring had to do was take out a pair of casual scissors and cut the joining hair. "This is the most interesting case of Siamese twins I have ever seen!" he tells us, "The joined hair never grew, it always stayed the same length, although apparently the skin cells seem to respond to the growing stimulus, and now that their hair has been cut it started growing back again. I think we might have been exposed to the most bogus case of conjoined twins ever. Who the hell could have been so dumb enough not to see this before?!"
John and Romero, as surprised and puzzle as never before, wished to keep their opinions private, but after their haircut, and an actual haircut as some sort of cheesy and ironical treat, have announced the news themselves to their whole family, and a great family reunion has been organized for next Christmas, back in Canada.
"The irony of it all" says Dr. Wiggleberring, "was that ever before I wanted to be a doctor, I wanted to be a hairdresser... I guess I'm ready to retire now"
Mr. Kevin Jalapenovitch, of Serbian heritage, is a 48 year old businessman who has lived most of his life in Oakville, a town part of the Grand Toronto Area in Ontario, Canada. Kevin has fully succeeded in bringing the company he works in, NextWave Wireless, to a broader geographic level and has been transferred, him and his beloved wife and kids, to England, where he now lives in Enfield town. His wife, Elisabeth, is very busy taking care of her dear children, John and Romero, who are conjoined twins, joined apparently at the head.
"When I gave birth to John and Romero," says Elisabeth Jalapenovitch "the doctor first stared at the twins and then stared at me and said "Mrs. Jalapenovitch, I'm afraid there is a problem with your twins..." he stared more into my eyes and Kevin looked at me with perhaps the longest face I have ever seen. We didn't know what to do, all we could think of was if our babies would survive, if they would ever grow up, and if they do what would happen to their lives. All these questions just came rushing in our heads constantly for the first weeks until the doctor told us that nothing could be done. The babies were healthy and fine... but that's the way they would live forever. We didn't know what to do for them, but we knew we had to take care of them like normal kids, it was no reason for them to be different from any other child."
18 years have passed, and John and Romero, as healthy as ever, and already graduated but on a leap year, have lived a happy life and have bravely outcome its troubles and problems with perseverance and ambition.
Yet, it was not until last week on Tuesday that Elisabeth received a call from her new doctor in Enfield, Dr. Wiggleberring, after John and Romero had gone there for a yearly checkup. The news were stunning.
"He called me and said 'Mrs. Jalapenovitch, I'm not too sure how to say this. Your children are perfectly fine, in fact, they are finer than you could expect.'"
Indeed they were, it turns out that Dr. Wiggleberring has found out a remarkable trait about John and Romero, they were indeed joined at the head, but not at the skin, nor at the skull, nor at the brain, but at the hair. That's right. For 18 years now John and Romero have been conjoined twins, joined at the hair. A simple cut would have set them free since the beginning.
"We didn't know what to say to the boys," says Kevin after he learned the news. "We were afraid of their reaction, but we had to say it and the news was announced during dinner that night."
"I just couldn't hold my tears" explains Elisabeth, "after all these years, it was all a matter of hair, which the hair dressers never got to cut a lot around what we thought was the joined part!"
Then, next Friday, all Dr. Wiggleberring had to do was take out a pair of casual scissors and cut the joining hair. "This is the most interesting case of Siamese twins I have ever seen!" he tells us, "The joined hair never grew, it always stayed the same length, although apparently the skin cells seem to respond to the growing stimulus, and now that their hair has been cut it started growing back again. I think we might have been exposed to the most bogus case of conjoined twins ever. Who the hell could have been so dumb enough not to see this before?!"
John and Romero, as surprised and puzzle as never before, wished to keep their opinions private, but after their haircut, and an actual haircut as some sort of cheesy and ironical treat, have announced the news themselves to their whole family, and a great family reunion has been organized for next Christmas, back in Canada.
"The irony of it all" says Dr. Wiggleberring, "was that ever before I wanted to be a doctor, I wanted to be a hairdresser... I guess I'm ready to retire now"
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