Conjoined twins separated in 1955 share their life story
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- čas přidán 2. 03. 2023
- In 1955, Lillian and Linda Wilson became among the first conjoined twins in history to be separated and survive. Now, they’re opening up about the groundbreaking surgery, how they’re doing today and the life lessons they’ve learned. NBC’s Sam Brock reports for TODAY.
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The missing piece from this story is that the mother delivered the conjoined twins by natural birth at home. It's hard to imagine what that experience must have been like for the mom.
I don't see how that is possible to do that in natural childbirth!!
Within the initial 25 seconds of video, it clearly states that the doctor made a house-call visit.
@@gretchenbeck441yes same thing I was thinking! Thank God mom made it thru
WHAT!? That is honestly amazing! I truly can not even comprehend how that is possible! Miracles sure do happen though! I hope she didn’t suffer long after the birth, although I’d certainly imagine she must have.
@@mojito-alongtimeago but still mind boggling: I suppose being twins they were on the small side though.
The African American doctor who separated them was Clinton Battle. The Matthews' conjoined twins were the first in history to be separated and both survived as we know.
Yes! Thank you for acknowledging that important information
Thank you and thank you, Dr. Battle! Now THAT is what I call Black history👏🏾👏🏾💕
❤
I imagine in 1955 MS the were not allowed in the white hospitals which makes the story even more remarkable.
Wow Black Excellence!
In Mississippi in the 50’s .. under those circumstances is a miracle indeed
Nobody but God🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I was thinking the same thing
Let's talk about HOW good they look for being born in 1955! God is good!
Because we are His Chosen Children🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
My thoughts exactly, truly blessed 🙏🏽
Mid 60’s isn’t that old tho ~ or maybe judging by My mom, I tend to think that 🤷🏽♀️😂 my ole girl looks GREAT and gets mistaken for my sister often ….
Well, being 68 isn’t as old now as it once was. People are living longer and longer, and Black women have always maintained a more youthful look due to the melanin. They are both lovely women, and I’m so glad I clicked on this video! 🫶🏽
@@NubianP6 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Lillian, was my 9th grade English teacher, an amazing life story.
Look at GOD!!!
Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah Hallelujah 🙌🏾 2 God B The Glory!!!!!🙌🏾⭐️⭐️❤️🔥🌸🌸🌸🦋🦋
Praise God The Most High
Mrs. Lillian.
Wow really!? Did she tell y'all
They come from an amazing family of 11 children, 10 graduated from College!
Amen
Blessings
Wow!
That’s awesome.
Awesome! To God be the Glory!!!
The mother must have gone through terrible pain while birthing. Unimaginable!
When she said she felt her twins pain, man that hit me.
Lilian Mathews Hollins. My high-school English teacher! Love her❤ Best English teacher in the world.
As a Mississippian, historian and a Black woman...I am shocked to have never heard this story before. I am in awe and intrigued!
that surgery was performed 70 years ago, this blew my mind. So glad both survived to have amazing and long lives. What a great story 💖💖
Their father was also a pastor, I know fervent prayers brought them through the surgery, and blessed them with their own children. Praise God there's healing in the Name of Jesus Christ Yeshua Amen 🙏🏾
couldnt possibly be the doctors skill
@@NikkiAirytStorytime Well considering the fact that doctors & scientists with their finite knowledge are still DISCOVERING things about the human body, earth, oceans, animals & the universe all of which were created by an infinite Elohim. Elohim also created the doctors in whom you imply to solely place ALL of your trust in. As for me & my family nothing is entered into without prayer to God and sealed with in the Name of Jesus Christ Yeshua our savior & redeemer, who through his stripes & precious blood shed on the cross there is healing & the free gift of salvation.
~Isaiah 42:5 - Thus saith God the LORD, he that created the heavens, and stretched them out; he that spread forth the earth, and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:
~John 3:16 - 3:17
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.
17 For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.
Amen
@@craythachef7774 🙏🏾
Amen haleluya
No longer conjoined but forever connected so deeply ❤️❤️
1:26 “we were separated at 5 weeks old..”
“I thought it was 6”
“It was 5”
“okay” 😂 lol yup! I can tell which twin is the oldest by a few minutes lol
I think there th same age in minutes too cuz there conjoined at birth
😅😅😅 yes. Even if it was 3 seconds the older twin always let's it be known LOL. Lovely ladies.
lol she does seem like the older twin!😂
0:30 you're right! But idk if you can call this being born first?
They were conjoined, born at the same moment!
They're living miracles. Them, their kids and everyone thereafter
Yes Courtney, Generations of blessings!!!God be praised!
Perhaps …they , their children and all those thereafter ………might be a more correct example of written English and language . What do you think? Is learning to write properly something worth learning and paying attention to ?
@@alexandradane3672 get a life. the purpose of language is to communicate, to understand and be understood. and if you understood what Courtney meant, what is the point of your comment?
What a fantastic story. So glad they survived and their story is being told nationally as their momma wanted.
Their story is absolutely incredible! Their mother, the doctor that delivered them, and the doctors and nurses who separated them and supported them are true superheroes ❤️.
Boy I wish I had capable parents. Not necessarily rich, but capable, articulate and assertive. It’s has when you as a child have up parent your own parents because the lack ability to guide and provide emotional support and life direction. These women had a strong foundation from the beginning and that’s what gave them the will to survive and thrive.
I appreciate the Today Show making their mother’s wish come true by sharing their story.
That amazing young doctor was so brave and compassionate to give those ladies full lives! ❤
I imagine those little girls from Texas that were just separated seeing this when they are 12 or 13 and getting a peak into the beautiful relationship they will also get to have for the rest of their lives. I’m sure those little girls mommy and daddy held this story close to their hearts in the months before the surgery too.
Let's also give it up to the doctor of African descent who at a time when so much racism existed, delivered these children and separated them. ❤❤🎉
Amen❤
I love that they still reach for each other. The love they have for each other is so clear. ❤❤❤
Elda and Selda Alsleben were conjoined in a similar fashion when they were born in Minnesota in 1927, and were separated 3 months later by a country doctor. Elda had a heart defect that could be repaired nowadays and died when she was 9, but Selda lived to be 87 years old. Her gravestone even says something like "Wife and Siamese Twin." (She didn't have kids herself.)
Beautiful
Rip
wow!! in 1927!!!
Thanks for refreshing my memory on that...Sondra from St. Paul.
This is such a beautiful story...
They have such a gentle spirit about them.
Their family is beautiful
In 1960, at 11 months old, my dad's spleen was removed. He is still here! He had less than a 5% chance to live. And my mom is an identical twin. These ladies are amazing!!
They’re sooo Beautiful and such and adorable relationship!
I love how cute they are! Congrats to them!
Absolutely love this story.
I have family friends who happen to be identical twin brothers; these family friends attended Mississippi Valley State University with these twin sisters in the 1970s. What a heartwarming story. I don't know the sisters personally. But I've from MS, so I've heard their fascinating story.
Such an uplifting beautiful story. I would like to hear more about the doctor who separated them.
Dr. Clinton Battle.
They're beautiful. So glad it worked out well. A lot went on in small towns in 1950s Mississippi. Best wishes.
What blessing this store was and with an happy ending. Kudos to you beautiful twin sisters. Dreams do come True❤️🙏🏾👏🏽👏🏽
My great aunts Selda and Elda Alslaben were separated successfully in 1927.
Wow!! Even more Incredible...
This is an amazing awesome story. God was all over this 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙏🙏🙏
This was a really wholesome story.
Thank you for helping the beautiful sisters share their story 🥰. Lesson here can be said that medical advancements can be amazing (conjoined twin separation in 1955) but can also not be advanced enough to predict the future (doctors stating back in 1955 that the sisters could never have children) 😉.
Exactly!! God has the final say!!!
Exactly ❤
@@cherylnelson4584 you are so right!
I love this story and these two beautiful ladies!
Excellent!!! Amen they made it through the storms of life. The entire family has a strong bond. Thanks for sharing!
I love stories like this ugh, thank you.
This warmed my heart. I hope their families continue to share their story!
What a beautiful story, such lovely ladies. How sweet. 🌹 I too, was told I couldn't have children. My two sons are grown, and I have grandchildren. God always has the last word! 💕
Indeed miapdx! ! God always has the final say!!
Beautiful it’s nice to see good miracle stories lord knows we need it!!!! 🙏🏾💙
AMEN‼️‼️‼️
What an inspiring story. Continued blessings, ladies!
It's such a blessing to hear about these wonderful sisters' stories.
They are lovely 🤎🤎. God bless them, and certainly their mom and the delivery doctor.
Beautiful women who were obviously raised and taught so well!
We’re they still delivered vaginally? I’m trying to figure out how they could be delivered that way.
*You are truly blessed...as well as your family and friends and what I'm reading in*
*the comments so are the students you taught! Much love, light and Peace!* 💖💫✌
Such an amazing story. Thank you for sharing ❤
I am so glad y'all featured this story. Their bond is so close and amazing!!
Thank you for such a hope-filled and heart-felt story. It's refreshing to see their love and spirit of unity on display.
Gives me chills too. God is truly amazing! Thanks for this story and what a beautiful family! 🙂
*Wonderful, touching, uplifting story. I needed this!* 💕
I love this story so much. I've always been fascinated with twins.
Such a beautiful story. These sisters are awesome and blessed. Thanks for sharing this video 💐💖💐💖
I’m so glad I got to see this. This is amazing ❤️
Such a wonderful story thank you for doing it it's just beautiful
Oh this is SO BEAUTIFUL!!!!! I just got chills..am in tears!
This is a wonderful story. Thank you for sharing.
What an amazing story of hope! 💜
Beautiful story!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
how doctors could even think they wouldn't be able to have kids is bizarre....there was no indication that would be a problem the way the connection was described.
They might've been worried about it happening again, since twins have a higher incidence of having twins themselves.
@@michaelleary9233 but not conjoined, there is no hereditary connection to being conjoined, its just an accident of conception...and extremely rare.
@@110311DONTWANTCHANNE Oh, I know, but back then they may not and could've figured the twins were already at risk if they had a pregnancy.
This is such a beautiful story and family. May God continue to bless them. ❤️
A beautiful story wishing them and their families continued blessings!!!
What a beautiful story. Thanks for sharing
Amazing , beautiful story !
Just plain BLESSED,proud to be in y'all generation !❤
Sam Brock🌟, EXCELLENT REPORTING🌟🌟🌟! What A Beautiful Story❤️!
An amazing story ❤!
It truly was, I had tears in my eyes. Beautiful souls.
Wow❤
The connection 😢...so deep
They are so beautiful
What a great story! Thank you so much! What beautiful, sweet ladies!
I absolutely love this story, it brought tears to my eyes.
what a beautiful story!
A really touching story!❤
This is such an inspiring story. ❤️❤️❤️
Incredible story.
They just seem like the sweetest little old ladies I would love to sit down and have a coffee with them!
Beautiful story Beautiful family
Good to hear positive stories ❤
WOW, what a beautiful story and testimony.🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
What a beautiful story! They both seem so sweet.
Make this story go viral y'all
Beautiful story, thank you! Proof that miracles still happen.
Great story! Very uplifting.
Such a great story!!!
Wow. The story about when one had a miscarriage gave me goose bumps.
Absolutely stunning, beautiful story. Twins always fascinate me, and they are some of the most fascinating I've seen. Mom called it, may have taken a while but they're national now! Shout out to the doctor(s) back then. Amazing.
WONDERFUL STORY
Incredible and amazing story!!! ...Incredible.
Beautiful story!
What a wonderful story, God bless you all and your whole family❤❤❤❤
This truly made my day.. 🥹
What an amazing story
This is absolutely beautiful ❤️
Wow! So heartwarming!
Great story❤
Such beautiful smiles and hearts
What a beautiful story!
Beautiful story ❤
What a great story in every way!!