Siamese twins Donnie and Ronnie Galyon were born on October 28, 1951 in the state of Ohio, USA, weighing 11.5 pounds.
While the doctors tried to find a way to safely separate the conjoined twins, they spent the first two years of their lives in the hospital. When it was said that there was no guarantee that conjoined twins would survive the operation, the family did not allow their children to have surgery.
Each of the conjoined twins, who lived face to face for 68 years, was born with separate hearts and stomachs. He continued his life by acting with his own arms and legs. When Donnie and Ronnie Galyon turned 63 in 2014, they entered the Guinness Book of Records as the longest living conjoined twins in the world.
CONNECTED TWINS PASSED THE LAST 10 YEARS IN BED
It is stated that the conjoined twins who died at the age of 68 spent the last ten years of their lives in bed due to various health problems. Conjoined twins were reported to have retired in 1991, after working for circus shows for 37 years from the age of three to repay the hospital bills and support their nine siblings, the twin sisters whose mother was rejected when they were born and left to survive by their fathers and stepmothers.
THE WORLD RECORD WAS THE TWIN SISTERS OF CHANG AND ENG BUNKER
Born in Thailand in 1811, Chang and Eng Bunker broke a record in the world as the longest living conjoined twins. Later, the conjoined twins, who settled in the state of North Carolina in the USA and married their sisters and died at the age of 62, had 21 children before they died.
