Face Transplant
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Wow.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/i-had-a-full-face-transplant-was-best-decision-i-ever-made/
"I couldn't even begin to imagine it was my face or my blood - or that the dog had chewed my face," she says. The injuries to her mouth, nose and chin were so extreme that doctors immediately ruled out a routine face reconstruction. Instead they proposed a ground-breaking face transplant.
"From the first time I saw myself in the mirror after the operation I knew it was a victory. It didn't look that good because of all the bandages, but I had a nose, I had a mouth - it was fantastic," she says. "I could see in the eyes of the nurses that it was a success.""Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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Wow.
https://nypost.com/2022/03/28/i-had-a-full-face-transplant-was-best-decision-i-ever-made/
"I couldn't even begin to imagine it was my face or my blood - or that the dog had chewed my face," she says. The injuries to her mouth, nose and chin were so extreme that doctors immediately ruled out a routine face reconstruction. Instead they proposed a ground-breaking face transplant.
"From the first time I saw myself in the mirror after the operation I knew it was a victory. It didn't look that good because of all the bandages, but I had a nose, I had a mouth - it was fantastic," she says. "I could see in the eyes of the nurses that it was a success."@George-K Is your quote from a different story? The "link" you attach was about a soldier who was in a car crash.
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A new study released today in the Journal of the American Medical Association details James' remarkable recovery from the groundbreaking 21-hour surgery in May 2023. "The goal for us was to have him blend in and be another face in the crowd," Dr. Eduardo Rodriguez, chairman and professor of plastic surgery at NYU Langone Health, tells PEOPLE. "The results are phenomenal. He looks fantastic and it's functioning really well."
In June of 2021, James was away from his Arkansas home on the job in an elevated bucket near Tulsa, Okla., helping to transfer wires to a new electrical pole when he hit his face onto a live wire while holding a neutral wire. The shock of more than 7,000 volts of electricity shooting through his body blew off his thumb and burned him from the inside out.
Somewhat gross picture attached showing before and after
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