First US Face Transplant Gives Patient ‘Her Life Back’

A woman whose face was horrendously disfigured after her husband shot her five years ago, spoke to the public today to reveal the outcome of the first face transplant performed by top surgeons in US.

Connie Culp, the 46 year-old from Ohio, was a subject of horror to those who crossed her path as her smashed, deformed face with a non-existing nose was said to have been causing children to cry and run away. Despite her staggering change for which we assume she is totally grateful, her speech is still a little impaired. But according to one of the doctors on her case, she can at least now “smell and taste the food” she eats as opposed to the previous tube-feeding she was undergoing before the transplant.

This is indeed plastic surgery to another level. In fact, although it took five months to reconstruct a new face for the patient who helped US to break a world record, for once we stand in awe because a human being is given a chance to smile again especially when it's far easy to be segregated if your look don't fit into our 'quick to judge' society.

In an interview broadcast by the BBC News Ms Culp, who is still in a long process of getting “her life back” with the targeted look surgeons are aiming to produce, said that she understands how important it is to “never judge” someone who looks disfigured because “you never know what happened to them.”

Following this successful first-time major face transplant, it is crucial to mention that if it wasn’t for that dead woman whose tissues, organs and skin was donated to Ms Culp, she would still be carrying a disturbing and monstrous face that makes people shiver at one glance. Consequently, we must learn to appreciate organ donors from all platforms as they surely make a difference in the life of the living, and that alone is enough to make their families proud of them.

It is hard to conceive just what type of husband this poor woman was married to. We’re talking about a man who, in cold blood, pulled a trigger on the one before whom he publicly vowed “for better or worse, till death do us part.” What crime can a wife commit to face a gun-fire in her face as a punishment?