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The Girl With Eight Limbs | National Geographic


Poonam her husband Shambhu and their son
Mythili SH with a simple life untouched
by the 21st century
but when Poonam became pregnant with her
second child everything changed
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before she was born I had a dream that I
had to make a temple to Lakshmi Lakshmi
is the Hindu goddess of wealth and
fortune her many limbs symbolize
righteousness desire wealth and
liberation this goddess of good luck is
celebrated in the month of October the
same month that Branham gives birth to
her baby girl when I first saw her it
was so upsetting that I fainted for two
days she has four arms and four legs she
looks like Lakshmi the goddess came
under her own name in this remote part
of India health care is hard to come by
disabled infants are often left in the
fields to die but Lakshmi is lucky the
villagers know she’s special the second
they see her
after she was born for a whole month
crowds of people came to see her it was
said that Laxmi love have been born here
news of the incarnation of the goddess
lakshmi spreads quickly from the remote
district of auroria it travels a
thousand miles to the heart of modern
India Bangalore is one of India’s
largest most technologically
and sparsh hospital is where top
orthopedic surgeon dr. Sharon Patel
first learns of Lakshmi Tata the girl
with eight wounds
photos of the two-year-old present a
medical challenge unlike any he’s ever
seen and he immediately decides to help
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namaste that’s me
fitting since well technically watch me
will have her first medical exam she
reacts like any girl or age
protesting loudly to the poking and
prodding
Lakshmi has two arms and two legs that
function normally the upper most limbs
on each side of her body
but below them in mirror-image are two
more sets of arms and legs that belong
to Lakshmi’s parasitic twin an unformed
being with no head
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dr. patel’s exam confirms his initial
impression Lakshmi’s parasitic twin
should be surgically removed but such a
complex operation has never been
attempted in India before Poonam and
Shambhu faced a difficult decision leave
life as they know it behind four
potentially life-threatening endeavor or
keep their little girl as they have
always known her as Lakshmi the goddess
with a club
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