Lakshmi with Mom, Poonami, & family before surgery, age 2.
Lakshmi was named for an Indian goddess for a reason.
Probably because her extra limbs look like the gods/goddesses that Indians are fond of worshipping.
She was born with 2 sets of arms and 2 sets of legs, a result of her parasitic twin stopping growth during gestation.
The local circus offered to buy her (why couldn't they buy the screaming kid I had to sit next to while trying to eat lunch?) but her parents decided surgical intervention was better.
And that seems to be going well.
isn't it amazing what docs can do now days to help people live a normal life? I hope she does well.
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