Topic: shotgun blast to the face... facial transplant
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Wed 05/06/09 11:02 AM
Edited by JasmineInglewood on Wed 05/06/09 11:02 AM
apologies if this has been posted already. i seem to be in the habit of inadvertently posting things that have already been posted in the current news and events section of this website. i attempted to skim over the first two pages and didn't see this so if it is here and i missed it, feel free to ignore this.

The guy who did this is only serving 7 years... that part was what most shocked me about this article noway







AP: 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.

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.

"I guess I'm the one you came to see today," the 46-year-old Ohio woman said at a news conference at the Cleveland Clinic, where the groundbreaking operation was performed. But "I think it's more important that you focus on the donor family that made it so I could have this person's face."

Up until Tuesday, Culp's identity and how she came to be disfigured were a secret.

Culp's husband, Thomas, shot her in 2004, then turned the gun on himself. He went to prison for seven years. His wife was left clinging to life. The blast shattered her nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye. Hundreds of fragments of shotgun pellet and bone splinters were embedded in her face. She needed a tube into her windpipe to breathe. Only her upper eyelids, forehead, lower lip and chin were left.

story continued at....

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/05/connie-culp-nations-first_n_197187.html

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Wed 05/06/09 11:19 AM
only 7yrs. he should had got life
what the heck was his freaken problem
explode explode (now its time to pitchfork him to death)
dont you think so

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Wed 05/06/09 11:33 AM
You are right!! That's incredible that he only got 7 years. WTF??? And she has a life's sentence!!! Unbelievable injustice there. frustrated frustrated frustrated

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Wed 05/06/09 11:35 AM
someone should have taken a shot gun to his nuts...

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Wed 05/06/09 11:39 AM
Not enough room in jail for the violent offenders, we need more space for low lifes that do drugs . . .