Connie Culp: Before, After and Now with a NEW face

Four years ago, the Hopedale, Ohio, resident was shot in the face by her husband.

Four more years, she had no nose. The bony structure that once supported her face was gone, as was most of her face. She could not breathe other than through a tracheotomy, could not smell, could not even drink or eat normally.

Several dozen reconstructive surgeries didn't help much.

Then, this past December, Connie became the first person in the world to receive a full face transplant.

Surgeons removed not just the skin, but the bony structures underneath, the nerves, facial muscles, lower eyelids, the palate from a local donor and in a 22 hour surgery attached the donor face to Connie.

On Tuesday May 5th, Connie and her new face addressed the world for the first time.

Doctors say the facial nerves that they reattached will slowly regenerate, giving her the ability to show emotion. Connie is able to smell and taste again, she can drink coffee from a cup, and breathe from her new nose. Specialists say her pain, which was constant before is nearly gone.

Read more: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connie_Culp

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[Virtualpixel]

why do they guide her to the podium? It's not like her legs are broken or that she's blind -.-

[micwawaw]

@Virtualpixel She's wearing fake eyeballs.

[xiAresx]

thats what happens when bitches come out the kitchen they get shot in da face then look like that

[micwawaw]

@xiAresx I hope someone blows your fucking face off.

[Nomorechaos2]

who are we to say what looks bad or not?? she was fucking SHOT IN THE GOD DAMNED FACE. she's lucky to have the face she has. hell, she was lucky to survive. and also, i think she looks beautiful. the swelling is just from the steriods. but if you look past the swelling and scars, she's really beautiful. most of you disappoint me.

[micwawaw]

@Nomorechaos2 People are just hateful. They forget that they can have a car wreck and have the same thing happen to them in a blink of an eye.

[krashthrillsman]

Wow that is incredible the way she looks at life and is just thankful and so forgiving and everything. She really has a lot of grace flowing in her life. I think she looks beautiful......And all of you jackasses with the negative horrible comments. You are so boring.

[MsMotherbug]

WOMAN YOU ARE AMAZING!! and to the gal who kept up her moral GOD BLESS YOU IN ALL WAYS!

[TheNewBlackster]

@Virtualpixel

You idiot... -.- She's blind...

[arvedsin]

She actually looks like an Argentinian singer who died in 2009 Mercedes Sosa.

[AlexRaveloTV]

@xiAresx your kidding me right cause i want to beat the living shit out of people like you...

[Astaroth1985]

@WarWolfKrime

Actually you would wish to have a new face - no matter how it looks - after someone blasts away your face with a shotgun.

[mikemike20202020]

beautiful in he hear? I think she looks like a cartoon.

[1sopira]

@krugger911 She is beautiful in he hear. but your to damn blind to see it.

[krugger911]

@Nomorechaos2

i wouldnt say she's beautiful