Ronnie and Donnie Galyon are about to be the world's oldest conjoined twins after recently celebrated their 63rd birthday. The Galyon twins, of Ohio, unofficially reached the milestone the day after they turned 63 on Oct. 28.
According to MLive, they beat out the previous record held for more than seven decades by Giacomo and Giovanni Battista Tocci, who were born in Italy in 1877 and lived to be 63 before they died. More photos after cut..
Ronnie and Donnie are joined at the waist and face each other. They have four arms and four legs and separate hearts and stomachs but share a lower digestive tract, a groin, a rectum and penis, over which Donnie has the control.
The twins were born healthy in Dayton, Ohio, in October 1951 but stayed in the hospital for two years as doctors tried to figure out how to separate them.
When experts said they could not guarantee both babies would survive an operation to part them, the parents said they would stay as they were.
The men agree that was the best decision. 'The good Lord made us,' Ronnie has said. 'Let our savior do it.'
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