Looks Like Somebody Has a Case of the Mondays

Thank God for coffee! That's all I have to say. I stayed up way too late last night watching some fascinating documentary on the National Geographic channel. Shocking, I know. However, I do enjoy educational and thought-provoking shows as much as the trashy ones. It was called, The Girl Who Was Born with Eight Limbs, and it is the documented account of a two year-old girl in India named Lakshmi, after the the four-armed Hindu goddess of wealth and prosperity, who was born with a parasitic conjoined twin. They were joined at the pelvis, and the twin was full formed, except it was missing a head. She was born to a couple of villagers. The girl was worshipped by some who thought she was a reincarnation of the godddess herself. The documentary is about the little girl, her parents, and their amazing, but frightening journey to have the girl's parasitic twin removed. The parents are presented with quite a decision. Do you allow your beloved child to undergo a surgery that could possibly end her life, or do you let her live the rest of her life as a deformed creature?