Twins can team up for all kinds of things: When I was in elementary, the too-cool-for-school twins Aaron and Brian kicked ass at every sport, said the funniest tag-team lines and got all the attention from the girls in Mrs. Durham's class. But you know what they didn't do? Cure cancer.
A UK woman pregnant with twins was subsequently diagnosed with cervical cancer; when she reported to the hospital with a suspected miscarriage, doctors found her unborn twin girls had kicked loose the tumor and saved her life.
"I couldn't believe it when the doctors told me that the babies had dislodged the tumour," she said. "I'd felt them kicking but I didn't realise just how important their kicking would turn out to be."
At the time of her cancer diagnosis, mother Michelle Stepney had refused to undergo chemotherapy or a hysterectomy, which would have meant termination for her twins. She had the operation four weeks after the caesarean birth of twins Alice and Harriet, who were delivered healthy but hairless because of the effects of limited chemotherapy. Stepney has since been deemed clear of cancer.
I can't wait to tell Brian and Aaron this. That'll rain on their parade of twin-gotten millions.
As for Alice and Harriet, I think they've got a bright future playing in the WUSA. Look out, Mia Hamm, the Brit twins are comin' for your ass.
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