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Chimp attack victim's face 'looks fantastic' after historic transplant
msnbc ^
| 6-10-11
| Linda Carroll
Posted on 06/10/2011 11:51:43 AM PDT by 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
In a grueling, 20-hour operation, a 30-member surgical team under the leadership of Dr. Bohdan Pomahac at Brigham and Women's Hospital performed a full face and double hand transplant....
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TOPICS: Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: chimp; surgery
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Miracle medicine, although the hands failed this time and they'll try again. God bless her and all true healers.
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Even a couple years later, the savagery of this attack still amazes me.
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:54:23 AM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Joe 6-pack
No kidding...
For the past two years, Charla Nash has veiled her face to cover the damage from a vicious attack by her friends pet chimpanzee that left the Connecticut mom blind in both eyes and without a nose, ears or lips. The chimp also tore off both of Charlas hands.
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posted on
06/10/2011 11:59:56 AM PDT
by
TSgt
("Some folks just need killin'" - Karl Childers (Sling Blade 1996))
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
Under obamacare she would not have had the chance at the surgery, cost to much so let her suffer.
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:00:59 PM PDT
by
chiefqc
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
In the coming decades as this technology is perfected I’d like to see it used on our boys who got hit with IEDs to see if they can’t get their looks back.
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:03:15 PM PDT
by
Eyes Unclouded
("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
In the coming decades as this technology is perfected I’d like to see it used on our boys who got hit with IEDs to see if they can’t get their looks back.
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:03:18 PM PDT
by
Eyes Unclouded
("The word bipartisan means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out." -George Carlin)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
“Brigham and Women’s Hospital”
That hospital SERIOUSLY needs a name change....
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:05:16 PM PDT
by
fishtank
(The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
To: TSgt
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:05:29 PM PDT
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Joe 6-pack
That’s just a normal chimp attack.
Imagine what it might have done if it had been pissed.
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:12:10 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: Joe 6-pack
It should be against the law for people to keep these animals.
You never know when they will do something like this.
After all, they are wild animals.
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:15:51 PM PDT
by
patriot08
(TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
This Oct. 20, 2003 file photo shows Travis, a 10-year-old chimpanzee, sitting in the corner of his playroom at the home of Sandra and Jerome Herold in Stamford, Conn.
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:17:31 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Joe 6-pack
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:20:01 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
To: Joe 6-pack
My God what a horrible read!
I’m not sure if I’d rather be attacked by a grizzly bear or chimp! I might take the grizzly bear!
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:28:37 PM PDT
by
TSgt
("Some folks just need killin'" - Karl Childers (Sling Blade 1996))
To: patriot08
An article about this attack in Scientific American says that, pound for pound, a chimpanzee is five times stronger than a human. An adult male also has massive canine teeth. They are violent and aggressive animals and impossible for a human to control fully. The owner of this animal should be in jail.
To: oilwatcher
The owner of the nasty chimp died about a year ago.
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:35:28 PM PDT
by
dainbramaged
(I lost my mantra around 1969.)
To: JoeProBono
Maureen O’Sullivan was lucky that Cheetah did not tear her apart when she was making the Tarzan movies. She later wrote that Cheetah was jealous of her. Cheetah was gay and had a crush a Johnny Weismuller. I think she got bit.
To: oilwatcher
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:36:00 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: 668 - Neighbor of the Beast
From what I could see - her face does not look “fantastic”. Hideous would be a word that would come to mind, grotesque might be another.
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:43:10 PM PDT
by
2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
(Welcome to the USA - where every day is Backwards Day!)
To: 2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten
You need to click on the link to see what she looks like, post-operation.
She looks very good.
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:46:59 PM PDT
by
Jonty30
To: forgotten man
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posted on
06/10/2011 12:47:34 PM PDT
by
JoeProBono
(A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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