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Face transplant lady = AHHHHHHHHHH!

post #1 of 36
5/7/09 at 8:40pm
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I guess her new face is better than not having one, but god damn this is some freaky shit.

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Connie Culp, a woman who nearly died after being shot in the face with a shotgun five years ago, showed off her new face today. It was transplanted from a dead woman, and is the country's first successful face transplant. So, what's she have to say? “Here I am, five years later…I got me my nose.”
This is what she looked like before:

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post #2 of 36
5/7/09 at 8:46pm
There really aren't many things online that actually make me sick to my stomach, but that is one of them. I saw this the other day, and I wanted to start crying. I would have just invested in a lifetime supply of paper bags, cut eye holes in them, and left it at that.
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post #3 of 36
5/7/09 at 8:49pm
Miracle of modern science for sure. Huh, I had never seen the before picture, pre-shotgun and she's not half bad. I hope this helps her get a better hold on her life. Granted, I can't imagine, nor do I want to imagine, waking up with a different face than the one I've known for 20+ years, but I can't imagine waking up without a face, either.
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post #4 of 36
5/7/09 at 8:53pm
I don't know if this is good or bad, but her new face looks remarkably like Jennifer Coolidge.
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post #5 of 36
5/7/09 at 8:59pm
It's still in progress, eventually there will be more procedures to remove the loose skin and get her closer to normal.
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post #6 of 36
5/7/09 at 8:59pm
The 600 series had rubber skin. We spotted them easy, but these are new. They look human - sweat, bad breath, everything. Very hard to spot. Kinda.

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post #7 of 36
5/8/09 at 4:39am
I guess she looks better than she did as Arseface.
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post #8 of 36
5/8/09 at 5:14am
The Bride of Z'Dar. Okay, seriously, I can't be anything but impressed by this. I always wonder how people can have shit like this happen to them and just keep going, and I admire them for it, but I hope to never find out for myself.
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post #9 of 36
5/8/09 at 8:14am
In all seriousness her nose looks fucking amazing.
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post #10 of 36
5/8/09 at 8:34am
What amazes me is that they actually managed to reattach the nerves and that she's slowly gaining more facial sensation and movement. That just blows me away that that's possible.
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post #11 of 36
5/8/09 at 9:19am
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post #12 of 36
5/8/09 at 9:24am
she can now taste and smell again. That's what gets me.
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post #13 of 36
5/8/09 at 9:42am
All assholery aside, this IS way impressive, especially considering the before picture.
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post #14 of 36
5/8/09 at 10:34am


Save your breath. I know where I'm going.
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post #15 of 36
5/8/09 at 10:43am
That poor fucking woman. Do you know who would just give up and leave everyone and everything in their life behind, and go live a wandering, nomadic existence in their car if this happened to them? This guy. My hat's off to her.

They just need to take all that extra skin and staple it to the back of her head. Like upholstering an ottoman.
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post #16 of 36
5/8/09 at 10:48am
Technically I think that's what they're planning to do once she gets more sensation and movement back in her faces.
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post #17 of 36
5/8/09 at 10:58am
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This is by far an amazing scientific feat. But as other's have mentioned, the most amazing part is her will to keep on living after such a traumatic experience. I suspect the fact that she has two kids at home depending on her is one source of motivation, but you'd also have to have a great intrinsic motivation as well. I wish her and her family all the best.

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Originally Posted by Trevor View Post
I don't know if this is good or bad, but her new face looks remarkably like Jennifer Coolidge.
Good for Culp, bad for Coolidge.
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post #18 of 36
5/8/09 at 11:08am
If this is how good their first stab at this looks, I can only imagine where we'll be 5 years from now. That nose looks better than mine!
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post #19 of 36
5/8/09 at 11:11am
And the guy that did that to her? He's going to be getting out of jail in less time than it takes the doctors to try to fix her.

There ain't no justice.
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post #20 of 36
5/8/09 at 11:19am
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Culp's husband, Thomas, shot her in 2004, then turned the gun on himself.
Is this the only attempted murder/attempted suicide with a fucking shotgun? Usually you get at least one of them right.

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Once while shopping, "she heard a little kid say, `You said there were no real monsters, mommy, and there's one right there,'" Coffman said. Culp stopped and said, "I'm not a monster. I'm a person who was shot," and pulled out her driver's license to show the child what she used to look like, the psychiatrist said.
The kid's psychiatrist was booked solid, and unavailable for comment.
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post #21 of 36
5/8/09 at 11:26am
That poor Newt can't catch a break, can she? She's seeing monsters in supermarkets now.
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post #22 of 36
5/8/09 at 12:55pm
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Originally Posted by Phil View Post
The kid's psychiatrist was booked solid, and unavailable for comment.
I would have grabbed the nearest can of whatever type of gruel there was available, chugged it, and spewed it all over that little shit while screaming gibberish. Just because I'd be able to.
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post #23 of 36
5/8/09 at 1:07pm
I'm waiting for this
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post #24 of 36
5/8/09 at 1:08pm
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post #25 of 36
5/8/09 at 1:29pm
Not a single Arseface joke. WTF comic book nerds.
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post #26 of 36
5/8/09 at 1:34pm
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Originally Posted by Trevor View Post
Not a single Arseface joke. WTF comic book nerds.
I watched that James Vance documentary a while back and the true life inspiration for Arseface gave me nightmares. http://depletedcranium.com/james_vance.jpg Yikes !
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post #27 of 36
5/8/09 at 2:12pm
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post
I guess she looks better than she did as Arseface.
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Originally Posted by Trevor View Post
Not a single Arseface joke. WTF comic book nerds.
*AHEM*
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post #28 of 36
5/8/09 at 2:25pm
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Originally Posted by Jake View Post
*AHEM*
Well, to be fair, that wasn't so much a joke as a painfully obvious comparison.
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post #29 of 36
5/8/09 at 4:18pm
Jake was correct in his Ahem.
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post #30 of 36
5/8/09 at 7:22pm
There are people who haven't been shot in the face who don't look that good now. Give it up for the surgeons.
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post #31 of 36
5/11/09 at 8:36am
I actually like her new face better than her old one before she swallowed a barrel!
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post #32 of 36
5/11/09 at 9:20am
Fool me once, Liam Neeson.
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post #33 of 36
5/12/09 at 2:08pm


I couldn't help but think of...



I'm so sorry.
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Originally Posted by MikeShaynePI View Post
I guess she looks better than she did as Arseface.
Jury's still out on that one.

Me? I'd find the coolest superhero/villain mask and wear that 24/7. Maybe Santo.

Don't google image search "face transplant" OMG (EDIT: Don't click on that link).
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post #34 of 36
5/12/09 at 2:15pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
Don't google image search "face transplant" OMG
I wouldn't have googled the image. What you should have typed in your post is "Don't click on this link." Lunch now finished.
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post #35 of 36
5/12/09 at 6:13pm
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Originally Posted by DARKMITE8 View Post
I couldn't help but think of...
Jesus H. CHRIST! How DO you come up with this stuff?
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post #36 of 36
5/13/09 at 5:20pm
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Originally Posted by IggytheBorg View Post
Jesus H. CHRIST! How DO you come up with this stuff?
I'm a Rutger Hauer completist?

It's actually based on Lovecraft's LURKING FEAR (incest, family secret, muties), so I had to give it a rent back in the day. Can't say I recommend it though.
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