Formerly conjoined twins—who underwent an unprecedented separation procedure—just celebrated five years of life since their operation. The South Texas twins are healthy and thriving, thanks to the expertise of pediatric surgeon Dr. Haroon Patel and the team at Driscoll Children’s Hospital. Scarlett and Ximena Torres were born conjoined, a rare and surprising story on its own. The sisters are, in fact, triplets; their identical sister, Catalina, was born free of health complications. “I was 3 months pregnant when I found out and I couldn’t believe it,” mother Silvia Hernandez-Ambriz told Driscoll Children’s Hospital, “because they told me there were three girls and that [two] became conjoined.” In a pregnancy with triplets, conjoined twins are extremely rare, with a 1-in-50-million chance of occurrence, reported KSAT. “I did get very sad because I thought they were not going to make it,” Silvia told the hospital. Because of the nature of their conjunction, the …