don t forget, there is another one. no, i would never forget you. how are you doing? are you doing good? yes. squeeze hard, hard, hard, hard, hard. wow. a, b, c, d, e, f, g a year later, in june 2007, much has changed since the twins return home. sabah and ibrahim have a new baby, and the whole family is now together, living in cairo. periodically, the twins still get c.a.t. scans to see how their skulls are healing. i see them every four to five months now and examine them for their development of the skills and mainly for their head to see if there s any weak points or any complication present. most of the head is covered by bone, but still there are some defects, especially in mohamed. dr. mamdouh believes the twins will probably need more surgery in the future to cover
local doctors, woefully lacking knowledge or experience or equipment, think it s best to transfer the twins, just five days old, 500 miles away to egypt s capital, cairo. they were very vulnerable. so our first main goal was to just keep them alive. quite possibly the twins would not be alive today if it were not for this man. dr. nasser abdel al has spent a career building the biggest and most modern neonatal surgical unit in the middle east. but this, this case is an incredible first for nasser. as nasser begins to explore how he can ever help these boys, he is stunned when he discovers they are a far more complex case than the conjoined twins from guatemala he d heard about who are about the same age as mohamed and ahmed. a c.a.t. scan and mri of the egyptian boys reveal they share not only skull and blood vessels, their brains, though individual and distinct, are
the function of his right hand right now is 50 percentage improvement more than in the past because in the past he cannot open it and right now he has the ability to open his fingers. hold the toy. put it in my hand. good. and while dr. samy acknowledges the twins amazing growth, he still has concerns for them and their future. the success of the separation is the state of the children after the separation. the success of the operation is to have a kid, a good citizenship, a kid independent. and much of that success depends on their education, which is a major concern for the family. the private school they attended is no longer available to the twins. so the family is looking for a school that can meet their needs. translator: i just hope they can go to school, and i think they will need private tutoring to learn how to write. i just want them to go to school, do well, and see them become something big. happy birthday to you
treatment. who are you going to talk to? the transition is a tough one. finding a place to live is a problem. they can t afford an apartment. ibrahim needs a job. but in just five weeks, a generous donor finds an apartment for them and puts it under the twins name. he also gives ibrahim a job. life for the twins is a constant series of visits to the hospital for testing. they re now under the care of dr. mamdouh, who accompanied them to dallas and has been with them the entire time. i m worried a lot about their bone growth and bone healing because the cranium, the brain tissue is a very weak tissue and even the slightest rumor might cause an injury. in some ways the boys development is about two years behind children their own age,
we ve gone from it s doable, it s not doable, there s we could do it and i can see how we can make it happen, and then all of a sudden we get new information and then it s like i don t know how we re going to make this happen. but for now mohamed the rascal and ahmed the philosopher are blissfully ignorant of all the weighty opinions around them, playing new games with their nurses. watched over by nasser, apparently in no danger at all, no closer to surgery. but a little closer to the man who would decide their fate. how long did it take to become attached to these two? not long. and even to develop a favorite. you know, because one has much more compelling eyes and he sort of takes you in. and then you re caught. which one is that? mohamed. the small one. the one who might be more vulnerable. right.