Connie Culp, first U.S. recipient of partial face transplant, dead at 57

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Connie Culp received a new face from a dead woman in 2008 after her then husband, Thomas Culp, shot her in the face before turning the gun on himself.

Both husband and wife survived the blasts. Thomas was sent to prison for seven years, while Connie was left without a nose, cheeks, the roof of her mouth and an eye.

Connie suffered 30 operations in a bid by plastic surgeons at the Cleveland Clinic to remove hundreds of shotgun pellets and bone splinters from her face.Culp’s face was badly damaged after the tragic incident , before undergoing the first face transplant surgery in December 2008. Picture: AP/Cleveland Clinic-HO.

“The only difference is the gun wasn’t loaded. I say, ‘The next time it might be.’ I never thought that he would do that to me. And look where I am. I’m just lucky that somebody was able to fix me.”

 

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Covid? I mean she’s be in anti rejection drugs and have a compromised immune system.

Good luck and enjoy Connie 🙂

God help us

It’s perfect.

What a strong inspiration

That’s sad 😞 for her & she was an inspiration to be able to be a voice to Women who are abused. Taken too soon

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