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And the surgery did leave signs of disability. >> push. good. >> mohamed does not have full use of his right hand. ahmed is unable to walk on his own. >> good boy. >> three times a week dr. samy nasseh volunteers his services, gives the twins physical therapy. >> good boy, ahmed. >> he believes ahmed will walk on his own but it will take a long time. >> and stand up. he needs the assistance of tool for him to stand and walk. but for five months, we think, i believe, that we can increase the assistance, and he can walk independently. >> stand on your right foot. >> goals are set for mohamed as ...

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 discover...

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. ...

But time and tests revealed an outlook which was even more complicated than anybody had imagined. >> this is an orchestration of the most complex surgical procedure that occurs on this earth. there's no question about that in my mind. >> these are the images that confront dr. salyer. a tangled confusion of blood vessels he's never seen before. major veins that originate in one twin, snaking their way deep into the other twin's head. mohamed and ahmed are not only stuck firmly together, they depend on each other for their lives. mohamed, the smaller but more outgoing twin, has more delicate, na...

Should they? is it really the right thing to do? >> we are dealing with something unprecedented. >> in the fall of 2002, the doctors and family decide it is the right thing to do, there will be an operation, they will do it. but now the task, and it is immense. in ahmed and mohamed's case there is some good news. though the boys' brains touch each other, they are apparently independent, and doctors believe they can be teased apart. however, exposing the brain can also lead to complications. >> in order to minimize the risk of infection, you have to make sure that you have sufficient coverage o...