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Time. i rolled him on his side and he went -- >> anias starts breathing and stabilizes for the rest of the trip. >> it's what it was for anias. >> the flu, but so severe, it takes two months for anias to recover. only then can the painful journey toward separation begin. over the next five months, four operations. starting first in the front of the head. then side. then the back. during each operation, doctors carefully clip blood vessels and separate shared tissue. then the hardest and most painful surgery. tissue expanders like balloons are inserted and slowly filled with water to create the...

>> that's what it was for anias? >> uh-huh. >> the flu. but so severe, it takes two months for anias to recover. only then can the painful journey towards separation begin. over the next five months, four operations. starting first in the front of the head, then the side, and then the back. during each operation, doctors carefully clip blood vessels and separate shared tissue. then the hardest and most painful surgery. tissue expanders like balloons are inserted and filled with water to create the excess skin that will be necessary after the final separation. >> our hope is we have a pretty go...

Tissue expanders or balloons that ballooned up, and that gave us enough scalp to cover the children. >> the tissue, everything connected own worked after surgery, right? but we understand that one of the twins had a problem with his right arm? correct? >> both did when they woke up. this area that was conjoined here, we had to split through the brain. one child had a hemiplegia on one side. the other child had it on the opposite side. nine months later, both kids are movie ining both arms very well. >> let's look at the video. there's new video of them -- of him, i think you can see. there it ...

In the plan we had these through the different stages but when dr. good rich was to able to make the separation final process job of the plastic surgeon to get things covered. we need to cover the bone as well as the scalp. if you look at the model here what we're able to use is the bone we had to go through to access. >> go ahead. >> the aires of division. but we had techniques to be able to split that divide that and create enough bone to use for both clirn gloo right. >> then for skap. scalp it's dangerous to leave brain exposed as you see. way we did over the course of the previous surgeri...

It was ready to go. >> already the doctors have been able to use the most sophisticated medical models. here in surgery the boys are strapped to yet another device, a rotating operating table created specifically for this procedure, allowing doctors unprecedented access. >> what it allowed us to do was to say, okay, let's rotate. without physically lifting the children, without being concerned that one child was going to rotate more than the other. >> in addition, the custom-made table will split in two when the twins are separated, allowing a team of doctors to work on each boy. first, surgeo...