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Patients call themselves fighters, reclaiming their lives against the disease. aditi roy, abc news, san francisco. >> we thank aditi for that story. we thank you for watching. "gma" first thing in the morning, and david muir will be right back here tomorrow night. i'm tom llamas in new york. have a great evening. good night.
>> glor: we close tonight with an update from haiti where two baby girls recently went through a dangerous operation dr. jon lapook was there as surgeons made medical history. >> reporter: there is nothing unusual about twins holding hands. but six month old infants marian and michelle bernard share much more. they are joined at the abdomen. they are minutes away from one of medicine's rarest and riskiest operations. improbably, the 2010 earthquake that brought so much death and destruction to haiti, also helped bring michelle and marian a shot at a normal life. their chance lies in the hands ...
Bernard enter the operating room together, they leave in separate cribs. their parents are overwhelmed. >> i'm very happy. very happy. >> there is something special about coming to haiti to operate on haitian children with haitian physicians, haitian anesthesiologist because i feel that i'm contributing to the future of this country. >> reporter: just this friday, two weeks after the operation, the healthy girls are discharged from the hospital. a homecoming made possible by a native son coming home. dr. jon lapook, cbs news mirebalais haiti. >> that is the "cbs evening news", later on "60 min...
>> pelley: don't forget, sunday is mother's day. steve hartman met a family that remembers mom not once a year but every minute. it's friday, so steve's "on the road." >> reporter: when 67-year-old carla wilson found out she had terminal cancer and that treatment would only prolong her life, not save it, this divorced mother of four was understandably depressed. >> more pills. >> reporter: and ready to give up. until one day, her youngest daughter, robyn, suggested an unconventional treatment-- not to cure her cancer, just her attitude. >> you know, she was very confused like, "why are we doin...
>> pelley: the flu is spreading. at least 21 children have died from it this season, and there's concern that cases will spike as students return to school after the holidays. dr. jon lapook is following this. >> at the st. joseph's regional medical center in paterson, new jersey, the flu season is in full swing. today that included one of the hospital's pediatric nurses, michelle sabotino. >> what i have upstairs are sick kids with fever and cough and coughing and, you know, so i'm bound to get something. >> new jersey is one of 29 states reporting high flu activity. most of this year's flu i...