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lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Amazing is right, with the courage of the parents, the courage of the doctors, and with the blessings of Goddess Lakshmi.
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What an angelic face she has. I’m wondering how it is going now…
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Yes, she does, like a baby goddess 🙂 I love where they ended up! Seems a long way from the hospital where she had her surgery though. Would love to get an update.
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She is 20 years old now and this is the most current news I could fine: A television program in 2010 showed her recovering well. It was found that cutting the conjoined vertebral column in the separation operation had not caused paralysis. She was operated on for clubfoot. X-rays showed that extra bone between the pubic symphysis (parts of the parasitic twin’s ischium and pubis bones) had been absorbed or was not ossified. Slight scoliosis was found but would have to be corrected by a minor operation; her mother was unwilling for her to have to wear a spinal brace throughout childhood.
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Oh wow, thanks for the update, Judy. I think the parents did right by her in having her get the surgery, but some part of me wonders if they maimed a goddess when they did it.
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Further news: Lakshmi Tatma, the girl born with eight limbs in India, is now an adult, having undergone successful surgery to remove her parasitic twin and extra limbs in 2007 and 2008. In 2025, she is an adult who is no longer an “8 limbed child,” but a young woman who has integrated into a normal life after her life-saving, complex surgery.
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such an amazing story… best wishes to Lakshmi and her family 🙂
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Amazing story. I admire her parents and so glad the surgery was successful.
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It is amazing indeed.
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She is 25 years old and from all I can find, living a normal life. Happy ending.
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That is great. 👍🏼
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