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Post by Hollywood Asia on May 9, 2009 5:24:22 GMT -5
www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30640254/?GT1=43001anybody hear about this? CLEVELAND - The woman who had the nation's first face transplant says it was the smell of soap that made her realize her new face was working. Connie Culp also says she still thinks about how she looked before her husband shot her in a failed murder-suicide in 2004. In an interview Friday with ABC's "Good Morning America," the 46-year-old Unionport, Ohio, woman said she forgives her husband, who went to prison for seven years. The blast shattered her nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye. Culp says she now feels great walking down the street. She came forward this week at a news conference at the Cleveland Clinic, where doctors in December replaced 80 percent of her face with bone, muscles, nerves, skin and blood vessels from a woman who had died. Prior to the transplant, Culp had endured 30 operations to try to fix her face. Doctors took parts of her ribs to make cheekbones and fashioned an upper jaw from one of her leg bones. She had countless skin grafts from her thighs. Still, she was unable to eat solid food, breathe on her own, or smell. It was the fourth face transplant in the world, though the others were not as extensive. In April, doctors at Harvard-affiliated Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston performed the nation’s second face transplant, on a man disfigured in a freak accident. The first, in 2005, was performed in France on Isabelle Dinoire, a woman who had been mauled by her dog.
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Post by Lewscher on May 9, 2009 6:02:41 GMT -5
wow lolz thats waesome what people can do nowadays. really quite amazing
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Post by gisles1414 on May 9, 2009 6:19:42 GMT -5
She is just disgusting if you look at the picture. But is amazing what they can do these days.
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Post by inrogers29 on May 9, 2009 9:11:48 GMT -5
She is just disgusting if you look at the picture. But is amazing what they can do these days. Yeah but theres a big difference between not having a nose and being un-human looking rather than just a little awkward looking. I'm sure she is overwhelmingly happy about her new face.
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Post by Sami Hazard on May 9, 2009 11:08:11 GMT -5
I would be overwhelmingly happy. It is a pretty big improvement. I wonder what she looked like before.
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Post by s2d on May 9, 2009 11:19:21 GMT -5
...At least she has some functionality in her face now.
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Post by inrogers29 on May 9, 2009 11:22:59 GMT -5
I would be overwhelmingly happy. It is a pretty big improvement. I wonder what she looked like before. Look at my post. I included the picture. The left side is the before picture and the right side is the after.
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Post by officespace on May 9, 2009 11:23:37 GMT -5
I would be overwhelmingly happy. It is a pretty big improvement. I wonder what she looked like before. Look at my post. I included the picture. The left side is the before picture and the right side is the after. maybe he meant what did she look like before she was shot. oh and btw, how she looks now won't be permanent. Saw the story on the news and they included a picture on how it will improve over time. Still won't look perfect but at least it will become normally shaped again.
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Post by inrogers29 on May 9, 2009 11:24:16 GMT -5
Look at my post. I included the picture. The left side is the before picture and the right side is the after. maybe he meant what did she look like before she was shot. Oh okay, I got ya. Yeah, I would want to see that as well.
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Post by Lord Ragnarok on May 9, 2009 11:27:20 GMT -5
maybe he meant what did she look like before she was shot. Oh okay, I got ya. Yeah, I would want to see that as well. The video that was included with the story shows what she looked like prior to the shooting. I feel bad that that happened to her but not only is she very lucky that she will hopefully look completely normal again one day but she's also very lucky to be alive.
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Post by S on May 9, 2009 11:34:53 GMT -5
Hold on tho, this was basically her first surgery, she's expected to have more for a better 'final result'
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Post by Death Bear on May 9, 2009 11:38:02 GMT -5
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Post by WFK on May 9, 2009 11:40:41 GMT -5
I don't mean to be 'that guy' but how do you fail a murder-suicide?
Either way, I say congrats to her for the surgery. I hope all is well for her.
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Post by ● kaneisdaman ● on May 9, 2009 11:42:07 GMT -5
Look at my post. I included the picture. The left side is the before picture and the right side is the after. maybe he meant what did she look like before she was shot. oh and btw, how she looks now won't be permanent. Saw the story on the news and they included a picture on how it will improve over time. Still doesn't look perfect but at least it will become normally shaped again. Exactly, The story broke here earlier this week and i read it. Her skin is supposed to tighten up over time and she should have a reasonably normal type face. Im glad for her. I can only imagine how tough life must have been, and least there is now some normality restored.
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Post by John™ on May 9, 2009 11:50:01 GMT -5
I was really hoping no one would post the picture, it's disgusting.
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Post by That guy next door. on May 9, 2009 11:57:13 GMT -5
If she is happy then everything is great in my opinion.
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Post by Eyce on May 9, 2009 12:01:31 GMT -5
It's like a real ventriloquist's doll.
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Post by Cole v7 on May 9, 2009 12:13:44 GMT -5
the first time i heard this story, i was watching my local news station, wtov9, interview her and i was like meh, its no big deal, but the next day the story was on national news. Then i realized this was one of the first ever opperations done like this in the u.s.
i feel really happy for her and wish her the best!!
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Post by k5 on May 9, 2009 13:21:24 GMT -5
that's great for her, and she has a lotta courage to keep going.
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Post by the franchise on May 9, 2009 13:25:40 GMT -5
Good for her that the doctors were able to do that.
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