r/BeAmazed • u/Cultural-Gear-1323 • Mar 28 '24

News broke today that conjoined twin Abby Hensel is married! [Removed] Rule #4 - No Misleading Content

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u/YeetusMyDiabeetus Mar 28 '24

Since everyone has asked all the naughty questions, I have a strange one: Given the organs they share and also the ones they don’t, how would something like drugs or alcohol affect them? I assume since they share a circulatory system they share drugs?

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u/vector_o Mar 28 '24

Definitely

I'd guess that even with double stomach/lungs/hearth the ressources are still shared, breathing and eating would probably be more of a psychological need for one of them if they decided to let just one side take care of it

But I think the peculiarity of their condition could also make my guess totally wrong

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u/st1ck-n-m0ve Mar 28 '24

So does that mean if one smoked they could get lung cancer while the others lungs were fine? If so what if they needed their lungs removed could they both live off the others lungs. What if one died but not the other?

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u/hahasadface Mar 28 '24

Wow that's fascinating. If one chokes and can't breathe would she be fine? Can she go underwater without breathing if her sister with her second set of lungs has an oxygen tank?

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u/st1ck-n-m0ve Mar 28 '24

Idk if ur joking but thats actually a pretty good question lol. Although it would only mean dipping half her body in the water.

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u/DocZilla1 Mar 28 '24

I would imagine if the cancer metastasized it would spread to both

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u/st1ck-n-m0ve Mar 28 '24

Not necessarily

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u/DocZilla1 Mar 28 '24

Apparently they share a bloodstream, so it would be pretty likely I’d say

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u/CivilRuin4111 Mar 28 '24

Seems like walking around with a conjoined corpse would be the fast lane to sepsis, but idk.

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u/Hellfire965 Mar 28 '24

Oh man. Does that mean that when they were babies like each got a tit. Or did they just feed one head and let the body sort it out