Separated twins released from hospital

They entered as one and left as two.
Formerly conjoined twins Trishna and Krishna were released from hospital on Monday,
five weeks after a delicate 32-hour surgery that separated their connected heads.

For their legal guardian Moira Kelly, it was a moment of pure joy and bewilderment
as she waved goodbye to the medical team who helped the twins heal from such a major
operation and started on a new path by rolling them home in two red prams.
"My life really begins today. Their's started five weeks ago," an ecstatic Ms Kelly
told reporters on Monday.
"For the first time they are allowed to be out of a hospital environment and be like
two normal little girls."
At one point, the operation to separate the girls was given only a 25 per cent
chance of success.
Their remarkable recovery took many by surprise, but Ms Kelly said it couldn't have
been possible without a team of world-class surgeons at the Royal Children's
Hospital and assistance from a higher power.
Prayers to Mary MacKillop, the pioneering nun who is set to become Australia's first
saint, were a constant during last month's surgery and well into their ongoing
recovery.
"Mary MacKillop has certainly, I believe, played a big role in this," Ms Kelly said.
The Bangladeshi girls, brought to Australia two years ago by the Children First
Foundation, will now sleep in separate beds a few blocks from the hospital.
They are already developing different personalities with Krishna becoming quite
animated and loving to laugh, Ms Kelly said.
The twins will require ongoing care and weekly check-ups.
Krishna's health, with serious kidney problems, is far worse than Trishna's. But the
hospital's neuroscience staff say they ware still absolutely delighted with the
pair's progress.
"I look forward to seeing them live a long and happy life - that's my wish for
them," neurosurgeon Wirginia Maixner said in a hospital statement.
The twins will celebrate their third birthday on Tuesday, marking the occasion
quietly with two cakes.
Trishna will have a Dora The Explorer themed cake while Krishna will have a cake
decorated with their favourite musical group The Wiggles.
Ms Kelly said it would be a "small and humble" event but she was a twin herself so
she knew how important it was to have two cakes instead of one.
Next will be Christmas spent at the foundation with Ms Kelly and her family where
the girls are already settling in by rolling around, laughing and smiling.
Ms Kelly had stopped at a park bench across the street from the hospital while
walking the girls home for the first time.
It was where she had sat five weeks earlier in the grip of a panic, terrified the
girls wouldn't survive the surgery.
"I just stopped there and said: 'There you go. We've done it'," she told AAP on Monday.
"Who would have thought we'd be back here only five weeks later? It's unbelievable.
Now I really have reason to smile."