Conjoined twins separated in 1955 share their life story
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- Опубліковано 30 вер 2024
- 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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In Mississippi in the 50’s .. under those circumstances is a miracle indeed
Nobody but God🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
I was thinking the same thing
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.
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 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
The mother must have gone through terrible pain while birthing. Unimaginable!
Lilian Mathews Hollins. My high-school English teacher! Love her❤ Best English teacher in the world.
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!
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!!!
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
When she said she felt her twins pain, man that hit me.
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!
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❤
What a fantastic story. So glad they survived and their story is being told nationally as their momma wanted.
As a Mississippian, historian and a Black woman...I am shocked to have never heard this story before. I am in awe and intrigued!
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.
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
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 💖💖
68 years ago
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?
No longer conjoined but forever connected so deeply ❤️❤️
I appreciate the Today Show making their mother’s wish come true by sharing their story.
We’re they still delivered vaginally? I’m trying to figure out how they could be delivered that way.
I love that they still reach for each other. The love they have for each other is so clear. ❤❤❤
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.
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.
What blessing this store was and with an happy ending. Kudos to you beautiful twin sisters. Dreams do come True❤️🙏🏾👏🏽👏🏽
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.
Absolutely love this story.
I love how cute they are! Congrats to them!
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!
They’re sooo Beautiful and such and adorable relationship!
That amazing young doctor was so brave and compassionate to give those ladies full lives! ❤
My great aunts Selda and Elda Alslaben were separated successfully in 1927.
Wow!! Even more Incredible...
They're beautiful. So glad it worked out well. A lot went on in small towns in 1950s Mississippi. Best wishes.
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!!
Such an uplifting beautiful story. I would like to hear more about the doctor who separated them.
Dr. Clinton Battle.
I'm assuming that the doctor took their mother to the hospital and delivered them by cesarean section?
Absolutely magnificent.
A Meharry Graduated Black American Doctor
I love this story and these two beautiful ladies!
Thank you GOD! This is a wonderful story of Your Grace and Mercy 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
These ladies have such an inspirational story 💯+ for us all in the hope for salvation from our human afflictions. 👍🏽
True Love from the Lord Himself🙏🏾💯🙏🏾💯🙏🏾💯🙏🏾💯🙏🏾💯
This is an amazing awesome story. God was all over this 🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙏🙏🙏
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 ❤️.
They are lovely 🤎🤎. God bless them, and certainly their mom and the delivery doctor.
Excellent!!! Amen they made it through the storms of life. The entire family has a strong bond. Thanks for sharing!
*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!* 💖💫✌
This is such a beautiful story...
They have such a gentle spirit about them.
Their family is beautiful
I love stories like this ugh, thank you.
Beautiful it’s nice to see good miracle stories lord knows we need it!!!! 🙏🏾💙
AMEN‼️‼️‼️
Thanks for sharing this story. Never doubt what God will do! He has the final word!!!
A thousand times yesss!! Amen!
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!!
Gives me chills too. God is truly amazing! Thanks for this story and what a beautiful family! 🙂
Being that it was 1955 I’m sure that it was a Black Doctor who separated them at birth. Everyone should know the name of this Doctor who was the first to do this. 📣📣📣📣📣
People do not give enough credit to medical science. We have come so far in medicine. If only people appreciated medicine over complaining too much about it. We need more gratitude in this world.
What an inspiring story. Continued blessings, ladies!
Beautiful women who were obviously raised and taught so well!
Such an amazing story. Thank you for sharing ❤
I love this story so much. I've always been fascinated with twins.
Amazing story thanks for sharing your beautiful life story with us God bless you and your beautiful family 😍🥰🤩🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🩸🩸🩸🩸🩸❤️🦋🦋🦋🦋
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.
Wait, I thought that gifted hands guy did the first procedure….
Look at God! I'm glad their mother was able to see the story aired on national tv.
Such a wonderful story thank you for doing it it's just beautiful
This warmed my heart. I hope their families continue to share their story!
Sam Brock🌟, EXCELLENT REPORTING🌟🌟🌟! What A Beautiful Story❤️!
An amazing story ❤!
It truly was, I had tears in my eyes. Beautiful souls.
A young Black doctor, fresh out of Medical school, separated these conjoined twins.
no, he delivered them. He did not separate them.
What a loving, touching, JESUS filled, beautiful story!!!!!! The twins are lovely, individual women, who were destinted to be inseprable!!!!
I'm comfused...how did one come out and go back in if they were connected from the sternum? They both wouldn't fit in the birth canal. Did the mother eventually have a c-section? I have so many questions
Praise God...being BLACK this was only GOD
They have me smilling from ear to ear with their amazing life story!🥹🥰🥰❤❤😭😭 May God Bless them and their families, in Jesus name Amen! 🙏🙏🥹💪💪❤❤
Amazing success story considering how primitive medicine was back then. Cheers!
Amen Jesus is Lord. God is above all knowledge n comprehension! Viva to the twins
I'd love to know more about the Black doctor... This was a time of extreme segregation in America and I'm sure his story is worth telling too.
What a mighty testimony 😢😢😢😢😢 look at GOD 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
God is so good! What an incredible story. Just goes to show you that God has the final word. God laughed when the doctor said they'd have no kids. Beautiful women! I'd like to know more about the doctors that delivered and separated them.
What an amazing story of hope! 💜
THANK YOU JESUS 🙏🏾 and MR. CLINTON BATTLE ❤️
What a nice story we need something like this with all that's going on with all the bad stories thank you for the video and God bless them and I'm glad they had such a fruitful life many children grandchildren back in the fifties that was really something to be happiness surgery like that it's good it was more simple than some of the others that are conjoined at the head
Bless them but in all cases of conjoined twins , it very much depends on where they are joined , what and how much they share . Not all will enjoy such a life , post surgical separation and I’m sure that these two lovely ladies will be the first to say so.
Am I correct in assuming they were not born via C~Section?!
Beautiful story!🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽
G~d bless. Great drs, nurses and great ladies and families.
God bless them all!!
Prime example that GOD works overtime and is ontime all the time..love this 🎉❤
These Ladies Are Beautiful 🌹❤🌹 God Bless You Both 😇🥰😇
Praise the Lord!!! If you can't see the hand of God in this story, you need to get your heart checked!
An Operation To Separate You,67Years Ago, Still Alive,With Children,Grand Kids.Who Says,The Lord A'int Good?He Is The Awesome & Wonderful GOD,The Everlasting King Of Glory, To Him Only Be Honour & Glory.LORD,WE SALUTE YOU.ALLELUYA.
That's awesome and a miracle look at God may he continue to bless you both long life in Jesus name amen
I love this because old people in Mississippi are mean ash so to see them do sweet I love❤
Walking testimonials indeed. Glory to GOD!!!
INDEED!!To God be the Glory!!!
I have so many questions. How did that amazing doctor deliver conjoined twins at a home birth in the 50s? Like, was it an emergency c-section at home or did they come out...Dear GAWD? How did they revive a conjoined twin?
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 ❤️
Beautiful ladies! 👍🇨🇦😎💃💃
Lovely...
Blessings upon BLESSINGS upon BEAUTIFUL BLESSINGS 🙏🏽💚😇
Awesome!
Keke Palmer looks like them when they were younger!
Amazing Story
Good health to you both many years later 🙏🙏
The two of you have a great bond 😘
Remarkable
And a home delivery
Just plain BLESSED,proud to be in y'all generation !❤
❤🎉
Wow❤
The connection 😢...so deep
They are so beautiful
*Wonderful, touching, uplifting story. I needed this!* 💕