THE 6TH MOST FASCINATING MEDICAL MIRACLE.

WIFE SHOT BY HER HUSBAND,AND LATER GOT A NEW
FACE.
Connie Culp is
46 year old Ohio woman
who has had the first
face transplant in the U.S.A.,and
her new look was a far cry from the
puckered,
noseless sight that made children shrink away
in horror,after
being shot by her husband.
Culp's expressions are still a bit
wooden,
but
she can smile,smell &taste her food again.
Her speech is @ times a little tough to
understand.
Her face is bloated& squarish,and her skin drops in big folds,that doctor plan to pare away,
her circulation improves and her nerves grow, animating her new muscles.
Culp's husband,THOMAS,
Shoot in 2004,then turned the gun
on himself,He went to prison for 7 years,his
wife was left clinging to life.
The blast shattered her nose,
cheeks,the roof of her mouth and an
eye.
Hundreds of shot gun pellet and bone
splinters were embedded in her face. She need a tube into her wind pipe to breath.

Only her upper eyelids,forehead, lower lip and chin
were left.
She endured 30
operations.
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
left unable
to eat solid food,breathe on her
own,or smell.
Then ,in a 22-hour
operation, Dr. Maria Siemionow led
a team of doctors who
replaced 80% of Culp's face with bone,muscle,
nerves,skin and blood vessels from another
woman who had just died.
It was the 4th face transplant in the world.
No information has bëën released
about the
donor or how she died, but her family members were moved when they saw when they saw the 'before& after' of culp.