
They could have an operation and try to separate Abby and Brittany, but there was a strong possibility that not one, but both of them won’t survive either the operation or the next few days. ConjoinedĪs we mentioned before, the chances of survival of the conjoined twins are extremely slim, and Patty and Mike Hensel were given two options. The survival ratio for conjoined twins is one in every 400,000 after the delivery. After she delivered the babies, it was seen at the moment that they were under a condition called dicephalic parapagus, or in other words, they were conjoined twins. They didn’t know anything up until that moment, and they were shocked when they discovered that she was having twins. Their parents were more than surprised when on March 7 in 1990 they were told that Patty would be having not one child, but two. However, they grew up in another place in Minnesota, called New Germany. The twins were born in Carver County, located in the state of Minnesota, in the United States of America. Their mother Patty is a nurse, and their father named Mike Hensel is a landscaper and a carpenter.

Throughout time and space, they have described their condition as something like being attached to a soul mate.


Conjoined twins simply may not need sex-romance partners as much as the rest of us do. Nerves, muscles, hormones, and psychology all probably factor in to who feels what … Whether or not both are ‘having sex’ with the third person in the equation depends on how you think about ‘having sex’ … From my studies, I would postulate that conjoined twins probably end up having less sex than average people, and that is not only because sex partners are harder to find when you’re conjoined. “Based on what we know about the significant variability of one conjoined twin to feel a body part (e.g., an arm) that putatively ‘belongs’ to the other twin, it’s hard to guess how any conjoinment will turn out in practice. In the end, Dreger does provide an answer that satisfies me:
