Nation's first face transplant patient shows face

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[MAD-AS-HELL]

CLEVELAND (AP) - 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.

Culp's expressions are still a bit wooden, but she can talk, smile, smell and taste her food again. Her speech is at times a little tough to understand. Her face is bloated and squarish, and her skin droops in big folds that doctors plan to pare away as her circulation improves and her nerves grow, animating her new muscles.

But Culp had nothing but praise for those who made her new face possible.

[MAD-AS-HELL]

Amazing science and while not perfect in execution yet, it most likely gives her a new lease on life.

What I didn't know is that Susan Estrich donated her face to this woman.

[exist]

On a scale of 1-10 with Carrie Prejean being a 10 and Michelle Obama being a 3, I give Face Transplant Lady a 1 assuming she has a decent personality.

[Scythian]

LOL - This is why I love the FR !!!!

[Protect the Bill of Rights]

After reading the article & seeing the before & after pictures I want to cry. She is one brave lady.

[P.O.E.]

Ever want to see a creepy old horror flick about a face transplant, check out “Les yeux sans visage” (Eyes Without a Face).

That aside, hope the best for this woman and hope this operation helps her recover. Miracle of modern medicine, indeed.

[Finatic]

oh my, i just spit all over my monitor.

great story lead in, i’m looking for a picture to go along with the article and like a loaded gun in my face, there she is.

AHHHHHHH!!!

[goldi]

On the news tonight, they showed a picture of what they hope to accomplish with further operations. If it all works out, she will look totally normal.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Oh my gosh, I was like that looks like sus..then I knew-fast! LoL!

Still very cool— had a lot of thoughts come to mind over this topic.

[rockrr]

Very courageous lady!

[Beelzebubba]

LOL, gasping for air!!!!

[Krankor]

This is the kid who shot himself in the face with a shotgun because of a Judas Priest album

[incredulous joe]

i thought this was a joke till i looked it up

pretty crazy

[GovernmentShrinker]

Pity her husband survived after turning the gun on himself. Got sentenced to a whole 7 years in prison too. How much do you supposed we taxpayers have been forced to spend on him, first to patch him up, and then to maintain him in prison for 7 years? Our “justice” system really pisses me off.

[mrmargaritaville]

better estrich than Helen Thomas!

[Julia H.]

http://i234.photobucket.com/albums/ee6/amdscooter/helen20thomas.jpg

[Julia H.]

Image FAIL.

[ExpatGator]

Do you support the accusation that it was the fault of the group and album?

[ExpatGator]

My other observation is: Wow, that’s gonna leave a mark!

[Krankor]

Other than the two kids themselves, the only other people who had any responsibility for their deaths were their parents. Ironically, listening to Judas Priest was probably one of the few things that gave these kids a reason to live.

[ExpatGator]

Thanks for the clarification. Your initial post made me suspect that you thought it was the fault of the band or music.

[andrew2527]

What the hell is your problem?

[andrew2527]

Link please for info

[Arthur McGowan]

Quick. Name someone who shot himself in the face because of a Benny Goodman record.

[ExpatGator]

Straw man argument, but good try. More people were raised to be self-responsible in that era and were more likely to take responsibility for being screwed up. This kid and his parents are products of the Dr. Spock touchy feely, everything is someone else’s fault, modern mindset and therefore blamed, you guessed it, someone else.

Do you also blame someone else?

Side note: I’m not a Judas Priest fan, not in the slightest.

[Krankor]

http://www.nytimes.com/1990/07/17/arts/2-families-sue-heavy-metal-band-as-having-driven-sons-to-suicide.html?pagewanted=1

http://tr.youtube.com/watch?v=JzbGiD8cJAg&feature=channel_page

[goldi]

I read that he got seven years and wondered why he didn’t get life for attempted murder. He should never see the light of day.

[happinesswithoutpeace]

more info:

http://www.wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=2173

http://www.wtov9.com/news/15408240/detail.html

http://www.wtrf.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=2168

[goldi]

Okay. Now I have no patience with her. She and her husband deserve each other. I wonder if he got surgery in jail (paid for by the taxpayer perhaps?) for his self-inflicted facial injuries?

PEOPLE ARE NUTS!

Clint Eastwood: Half the people should be shot and the other half locked up.

[wardaddy]

that wasn't really a strawman argument....it brings up a good point.

some music does help drive nuts over the wall..yes or no...i think some music provides impulse or acts as a soundtrack for many actions from love making to driving fast to yes I guess committing bad acts too

and some music probably helps some folks despondent kill themselves too...

not sure there is much one can do about any of it unless the music's intent is to do that

was ACDC inciting the Long Island Satanic cult in the 80s?

or Priest in this case?

or what if someone gets despondent and kills themselves over Hank William's I'm so Lonesome I could Cry

or Floyd's Comfortably Numb.

or Hip-Hops infatuation with dope dealing, bastard kids, and killing and anti-white racism

I don't think anyone really wants their music to incite folks to the degree some do...although some underground groups really do push dark things sometimes;...
that is where these cases come from..
.prosecutors who think the bands are inciting death and mayhem may have a another argument

one could make the same claim on books and film too

The Hunter Diaries definitely inspired Tim McVeigh...was Peters ever prosecuted? I don't think so...

We have copycat killers the world over who ape Hollywood ideas.

It raises interesting questions, I wonder how our founders would have handled it.

[wardaddy]

Do you also blame someone else?

faulting an outside influence for contributing to poor choices does not by default diminish one's own responsibility in the act itself they committed

[happinesswithoutpeace]

Hunter Diaries oops : )

[happinesswithoutpeace]

One of them did have Hunter in the title iirc though.

[Arthur McGowan]

Your argument is that Judas Priest is not to blame—because Dr. Spock is to blame.

[Arthur McGowan]

Your argument is that Judas Priest is not to blame—because Dr. Spock is to blame.

[wardaddy]

damn you’re right:

Turner Diaries and The Hunter

both by Peters at the apex of the Christian Identity movement

but shazaam...some of that far out crap Peters forecasted is sure coming to pass with this new bunch in power

who’d have ever thought?

/s

[Rastus]

Side note: I’m not a Judas Priest fan, not in the slightest.

Aw, man. They're great! Very melodic and with a wide variety of songs (ie, not a lot of songs that sound alike). The idea of "Better By You" leading to anyone's suicide is outrageous. Besides being a freaking Gary Wright song, it's uptempo and not of a depressing nature in the slightest. If I remember right, the trial hinged on two things: the supposed backward masking of "do it," and the line about "leave my blood on her windowsill."

I know from doing it myself that you can put "evil" messages in songs. You just sit around and come up with a line, speak it into a microphone, play it backwards, and it often sounds close to another phrase. For example, if you say, "Here's to my sweet Satan," it sounds like "There's still time to change the road you're on." So, it's possible to get a message in there in that fashion. But, I don't believe that the human mind can process that and subconciously know that it is saying that backwards (and, I don't think Zeppelin sat around doing that, but it does work out that way).

The windowsill line leading to a suicide doesn't even make sense.