Once the girls were stabilized, Jake and Erin turned to the public, who had been closely following the Herrin’s dramatic story.

“Everything is going as well as we could hope and pray for. Prayers are working,” said Jake.

“They’ve given us courage we didn’t realize 4-year-olds could possess”, Erin added.

Kendra and Maliyah were the first set of conjoined twins to be separated to share a kidney.

But even though the surgery was successful, the twins still had a long road of rehabilitation ahead of them. For example, both twins needed to have their bandages changed three times a week.

Putting on new bandages and taking off the old ones took two hours for each sister. Because each sister was left with one leg after surgery, they needed to learn how to move from scratch.

Also, Maliyah required special care and three dialysis sessions per week.

Soon, however, everyone realized that the twins’ miraculous recovery story was something out of the ordinary.

When Erin was told Maliyah needed a new kidney, she did not hesitate for one second.