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Daughter that grim task. >> so the best youre going to hope for here is that its your daughter but shes pretty seriously hurt. >> yeah. >> the wait was excruciating and then their daughter returned with the news they had been praying for. >> she comes back down and she says mom, its chris. >> fall and friends took turns at christines bedside wondering if she would ever regain consciousne consciousness. >> we told her we were there and we loved her. >> how did she look? >> it was bad. it was so b...

But instead they can make a choice to find the good and allow that to help them heal. >> our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen visited tarleton and her new boyfriend and heard their incredible story. >> carmen tarleton loved her husband, but when their marriage fell apart, he attacked her, dousing her with chemicals. deep burns on over 80% of her body. more than 50 surgeries saved her life, but doctors couldnt erase the scars. youre the head of a major burn unit. have you ever seen a ...

And we sew them back in to create a complete membrane over the brain that would be a barrier for any bacteria. >> ready? >> then, after a marathon 33 hours of surgery, its over and the boys are wheeled out in separate gurneys. [ applause ] to protect the boys in surgery doctors have given them drugs to create, artificially, a coma. this allows their brains to adjust. now the process of returning them to consciousness begins. now, everything happens with deliberate slowness. for several days doct...

Gradually inflating them with saline, causing the skin to stretch. >> guess what? its too big. >> five tissue expanders are inserted under their skin near the crown of each of their heads. >> and one of the critical issues for these children is to have a complete tissue seal of both heads. so this is -- these maneuvers long term are critical in determining their outcome. ♪ happy birthday to you >> two months after the tissue expanders were put in, the boys happily celebrate their second birthd...

Sniet turns out to be a rare form thats curable with surgery. i had the vurj i and thankfully im fine now. >> reporter: but author walter isaacson tells "60 minutes" that jobs initially resisted the surgery doctors were recommending. >> he tries to treat it with diets, goes to spiritualists, goes different ways to do it may crow bilaterally and he doesnt get the operation. >> why doesnt he get operated on immediately? >> i asked him that. he said i didnt want my body to be opened. i didnt want t...

Gradually inflating them with saline, causing the skin to stretch. >> guess what? its too big. >> five tissue expanders are inserted under their skin near the crown of each of their heads. >> and one of the critical issues for these children is to have a complete tissue seal of both heads. so this is -- these maneuvers long term are critical in determining their outcome. ♪ happy birthday to you >> two months after the tissue expanders were put in, the boys happily celebrate their 2nd birthday,...

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