The boys and their mother, Arlene, came to New York in 2003, when Montefiore agreed to take the boys case for free it has cost more than $3 million so far and the Blythedale Childrens Hospital in Valhalla agreed to donate housing and therapy.
The Childrens Hospital team of neurosurgeon Dr. James Goodrich and plastic surgeon Dr. David Staffenberg separated the boys in a gradual staged approach, pushing apart their brains and dividing the blood vessels in four operations from October 2003 to August 2004. In between, the boys were given time to heal. It was a departure from the more common single marathon operation.
During the final operation, the surgeons found that the boys brains, which scans had indicated were abutting but separate, were actually shared and seamless at one point. Dreading whatever complications he might cause, Goodrich studied and consulted and finally found a place to cut where veins seemed to go in opposite directions.
I am not a religious person, Goodrich said last week. But I do think there was something guiding us along there.
Marion said Carl suffered some seizures in the month after the separation, but Goodrich said his principal fears neurological problems and liquid on the brain did not develop.
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