The woman suffered a traumatic injury several years ago that left her with no nose, palate, or way to eat or breathe normally. In a 22-hour procedure, 80 percent of her face was replaced with bone, muscles, nerves, skin and blood vessels from a dead donor.
It was the fourth partial face transplant in the world, though the others were not as extensive.
How cool is that? I can’t imagine what it might mean to look in the mirror after that surgery, but then lots of people have extensive plastic surgery on their faces for various reasons. I’m so not the type to do that, so maybe that’s why this blows my mind, considering what it’d feel like if I had to.
Wow. That’s awesome that they can do that now. So many uses for a dead body that we never would have even tried just a few hundred years ago!
I was just reading in a book (how much is purely fiction and how much is loosely based on the author’s experiences I don’t know) where a man suffered a severe head injury, and half his brain was removed and replace with that of a pig. The man was then said to have lived for a year but eventually went crazy and died.
All I could think of is the infection that had to have set in from that dead, rotting pig brain inside his cranium! That’s make anyone crazy.