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Girl Eats Twin; Says "Needs Salt"

Posted by Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!)

A 9-year-old girl complaining of stomach pains had a 2-inch-long embryo complete with head, hair and eyes removed from her belly, while her parents issued this statement from the waiting room: "So that's where the other one went! I knew we were missing something."

Doctors in Greece, where this occurred, said that one in a set of twins absorbs the other in about 1 in every 500,000 births. The girl -- I mean the one who was not eaten -- had complained of stomach pains, went to get checked out and voila, there was a lump in her stomach. (Did this lump remain for the girl's entire 9-year existence? Was this the first time she ever felt discomfort? Good questions -- no answers.)


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Posted May 15 2008, 01:58 PM
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maeby said:

for the longest time i thought i had a fetus in fetu because i could feel a mass above my belly button and it had a heartbeat.

turned out to be a hernia.

ultra lame.

May 15, 2008 2:57 PM
 

Sue said:

I can see it, whenever she's in an argument with her mom, she'll sob, "Why couldn't *I* have been the undeveloped fetus? You always did love *her* best"

May 15, 2008 4:07 PM
 

Mike Adamick (Cry It Out!) said:

"If the undeveloped fetus wants to jump off a bridge, would you?" -- that seems like the logical response.

And I'm sorry to hear it was just a hernia baby, maeby.

May 15, 2008 5:24 PM
 

HDCS said:

Recently when a friend noticed our toddler tends to favor his left hand for everything, the friend mentioned that there's a growing body of research (pun intended I guess) showing that lefties are twins who consumed their sibling in utero. Weird.

Just thought I'd share.

May 15, 2008 6:15 PM
 

Harriet said:

HDCS--Is there any actual science behind that?

May 18, 2008 8:51 PM

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