Nation's first face transplant patient shows face »
Posted By myfairlady 7 months, 1 week ago in Health & FitnessFive years ago, a shotgun blast left a ghastly hole where the middle of her face had been. Five months ago, she received a new face from a dead woman. Connie Culp stepped forward Tuesday to show off the results of the nation's first face transplant, and her new look was a far cry from the puckered, noseless sight that made children run away in horror.
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RedRiverJ7 months, 1 week ago
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What do you think would have happened to this woman under this administration's socialized medicine?
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NOTHING........she would be doomed to live life with her face half gone. Thanks to this great team of Doctors who have the ability to make decisions on care and how it's given she now at least has a face.-
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frctm57 months, 1 week ago
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I don't think this surgery would have fallen into the category of elective procedures. Furthermore, its not as if private insurers would be scrambling to cover the cost of this surgery. Generally they argue for their bottom line and not the welfare of their clients.
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hyperbola7 months ago
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Well RedRiver, if you had read the story carefully you might have noticed that the first operations of this kind were NOT done in the US, but rather in a country with a pretty good national health scheme (France).
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You should educate yourself instead of just making yourself look like an ignorant ideologue.
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Mutainia7 months, 1 week ago
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I remember a guy who had NO face AT all. He had NO eyes and NO nose. The tragedy was the result of a staff infection that ate his face away. Fortunately, he had a lower jaw and a tongue, allowing him to communicate and swallow when an artificial mask was snapped on in place of the giant hole. What was even more tragic about this, is that he was really, a great guy with a fantastic heart. Whenever I think about him, and, how he looked without his mask, I feel incredibly ashamed for the times I complained about my own imperfections.
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cowboygrandpa7 months, 1 week ago
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FTA
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"Culp's husband, Thomas, shot her in 2004, then turned the gun on himself. He went to prison for seven years. His wife was left clinging to life. The blast shattered her nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye. Hundreds of fragments of shotgun pellet and bone splinters were embedded in her face.
She needed a tube into her windpipe to breathe. Only her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin were left."
The man received 7 years, for destroying this womans' life and making her suffer a lifetime for his rage. WTF kind of justice is that ???
I pray that she finds peace and happiness. As far as the doctors performing the surgery. God bless them and their abilities to transform this poor womans life into something better than it was. -
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