15. The Final Plan Was Rehearsed
With a final rehearsing of the plan in the operation theater, Jeelani and the team began the long operation. “The whole team feels there’s an excellent likelihood of a successful separation here,” said Dunaway.
It was 2:30 p.m. when the doctors stopped off the artery that fed Marwa’s brain with her sister’s blood. It took hours of clamping and sealing shared arteries, and meanwhile Dunaway was working on the framework of the skull that was removed. He had to make one strong to cope with the activity and age of the twins, and it had to be detachable for the next operations…