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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOne Year On From Pioneering Face Transplant, Patient Says Surgery Has "Given Me Back My Life"
http://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/one-year-on-pioneering-face-transplant-patient-surgery-given-back-life/A year on from his one-of-a-kind face transplant, Patrick Hardison has said that the surgery has truly given me back my life, adding that he recently went on a family vacation to Disney World and swam in the pool with his kids something he hadnt done in 15 years.
I go about my day just like everyone else, Hardison explained at a press conference at NYU Langone Medical Center, the institute where the operation took place back in August 2015. Its allowed me to do things with my family that I had not been able to do. I cant tell you what a sense of freedom it is to even drive my kids to school.
Since his new face was attached, he has had several more minor operations to adjust his new eyelids and lips, to remove the feeding tube from his abdomen and the breathing tube from his trachea, and remove some excess skin. The pictures speak for themselves compared to how Hardison looked before the operation, its now impossible to tell he was ever involved in a traumatic accident back in 2001.
There are no more stares, no more frightened children running away from me. Im pretty much just a normal guy, he said. Now, I want to help others to pursue this type of surgery, especially fellow firefighters and members of the armed services. There definitely is hope.
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One Year On From Pioneering Face Transplant, Patient Says Surgery Has "Given Me Back My Life" (Original Post)
FLPanhandle
Aug 2016
OP
This is amazing. Science really beats sci-fi on this one with such a wonderful outcome.
suffragette
Aug 2016
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uppityperson
(115,677 posts)1. It is so great that they can do these. K&r
malaise
(268,664 posts)2. Wow
Science and medicine matter
hunter
(38,301 posts)5. Science and medicine matter.
Yes they do.
ChazII
(6,200 posts)3. I am thankful for crania-facial teams
who have the skill and the knowledge to help.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)4. K&R
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)6. I've had reconstuctive surgery but nowhere near THIS extensive
Mine was like going in for a dental filling compared to this.
I had my left lower jaw rebuilt three times, and I'm not sure I even needed the pastic surgery they did. One VA doc later blocked my teeth implants because I didn't want to consider more plastic surgery.
What they're doing now is truly amazing!
mountain grammy
(26,598 posts)7. Wonderful, I'm so happy for this man.
suffragette
(12,232 posts)8. This is amazing. Science really beats sci-fi on this one with such a wonderful outcome.
lillypaddle
(9,580 posts)9. Amazing nt
LisaL
(44,972 posts)10. And it wasn't just for cosmetic reasons.
He was going blind because he had no eyelids to protect his eyes.