CLEVELAND ? Five 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.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090505/ap_on_he_me/med_face_transplant
thats unreal, from the side shot of the second pick you would never guess anything had ever happened to her
Awesome! When I first saw the thread title, I said to myself “Oh no, what has Hollywood done now…”
But yeah, cool story.
[quote]SSC wrote:
Awesome! When I first saw the thread title, [/quote]
I read “First Face Plant In US”. Gawd I need sleep!
[quote]swissrugby67 wrote:
wow. [/quote]
X2.
How in the hell does one survive a shotgun blast to the face?
Imagine having known the donor during their lifetime and then meeting this person with their new face. Weird.
When I first saw this I thought it was going to be some fruit or freak taking their plastic surgery addiction to new levels. When I read it I was still shocked but moved. That’s insane. I can’t imagine the amount of work that took to perform. Modern medicine +1, God 0. Oh yeah I went there.
[quote]Cowboy_69 wrote:
SSC wrote:
Awesome! When I first saw the thread title,
I read “First Face Plant In US”. Gawd I need sleep![/quote]
I read “First Face Palm In US”.
[quote]rrjc5488 wrote:
swissrugby67 wrote:
wow.
X2.
How in the hell does one survive a shotgun blast to the face?[/quote]
People have survived gun shots to the head, being impaled through the skull with sticks and poles, and I believe one case involved a pair of scissors in the eye. Avoid brain damage that involves vital functions and the human body is more durable than some give it credit for.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
rrjc5488 wrote:
swissrugby67 wrote:
wow.
X2.
How in the hell does one survive a shotgun blast to the face?
People have survived gun shots to the head, being impaled through the skull with sticks and poles, and I believe one case involved a pair of scissors in the eye. Avoid brain damage that involves vital functions and the human body is more durable than some give it credit for.[/quote]
I know mine is.
[quote]Professor X wrote:
rrjc5488 wrote:
swissrugby67 wrote:
wow.
X2.
How in the hell does one survive a shotgun blast to the face?
People have survived gun shots to the head, being impaled through the skull with sticks and poles, and I believe one case involved a pair of scissors in the eye. Avoid brain damage that involves vital functions and the human body is more durable than some give it credit for.[/quote]
http://www.videosift.com/video/Kid-Looses-Half-His-BrainSkull-In-Shooting
You’d be surprised what you can live through.
[quote]DoubleDuce wrote:
Professor X wrote:
rrjc5488 wrote:
swissrugby67 wrote:
wow.
X2.
How in the hell does one survive a shotgun blast to the face?
People have survived gun shots to the head, being impaled through the skull with sticks and poles, and I believe one case involved a pair of scissors in the eye. Avoid brain damage that involves vital functions and the human body is more durable than some give it credit for.
http://www.videosift.com/video/Kid-Looses-Half-His-BrainSkull-In-Shooting
You’d be surprised what you can live through.[/quote]
wow, and he looks pretty normal after surgery
[quote]Professor X wrote:
rrjc5488 wrote:
swissrugby67 wrote:
wow.
X2.
How in the hell does one survive a shotgun blast to the face?
People have survived gun shots to the head, being impaled through the skull with sticks and poles, and I believe one case involved a pair of scissors in the eye. Avoid brain damage that involves vital functions and the human body is more durable than some give it credit for.[/quote]
See Phineas Gage: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phineas_Gage … which i’m pretty sure is what prof x was alluding to
