Hooray! The first face transplant!

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It says here. Now Nicholas Cage and John Travolta can finally live out their movie dream.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:01 (twenty years ago)

Doctors stress the woman will not look like her donor, but nor will she look like she did before the attack - instead she will have a "hybrid" face.

― Dan (Prius Face) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:03 (twenty years ago)

"She's out of your league".

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

"The transplant would have to come from a beating heart donor. So, say your sister was in intensive care, you would have to agree to allow their face to be removed before the ventilator was switched off.
"And there is the possibility that the donor would then carry on breathing."

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

the woman - who wishes to remain anonymous

Well that shouldn't be too hard, now.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:08 (twenty years ago)

http://www.zonalibre.org/blog/moe/archives/imagenes/Abrelosojos.jpg

― k/l (Ken L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

I don't know that I've ever "savage" used as a verb before.

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

Well, that's a second time.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:14 (twenty years ago)

SEEN

― Huk-L (Huk-L), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

does this mean that big magnetic moon boots are just around the corner?

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:18 (twenty years ago)

Yes. That is exactly what it means.

― Dan (WTF) Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:19 (twenty years ago)

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Good luck waking up like this.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

That's one bold cookie.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:28 (twenty years ago)

pics, before and after?

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:29 (twenty years ago)

Only if we can kill you afterwards.

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:30 (twenty years ago)

http://www.blueharvest.net/images/crumb/crumb2.jpg http://www.worldfamousbob.com/images/bio/bio1sm.jpg

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:32 (twenty years ago)

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So I'm wondering if Geddy Lee's wife also had a transplant. Hmmmmmmmmmmm

― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:33 (twenty years ago)

If that's Geddy Lee's wife, I pity the man.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Only if we can kill you afterwards.

fine.

― not-goodwin (not-goodwin), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:35 (twenty years ago)

Man, the doctors on "Nip/Tuck" just screwed this procedure up a couple of weeks ago. "But Christian, it's the kind of high-profile case that can get us back on track after all the bad publicity when you told the TV stations you were arrested for being the Carver when you knew it would just make the real Carver (who may or may not have raped you) take it out on the sexy bisexual detective you and your fiancee both boffed by slicing her face open!"

― The Obligatory Sourpuss (Begs2Differ), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Geddy Lee's wife is a Real Doll? Damn.

― Alan Conceicao (Alan Conceicao), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:38 (twenty years ago)

Good luck waking up like this.

wow. Baldy there looks like a 2nd-stringer GI Joe guy, one who came later on when the series was in decline and they added William "Refrigerator" Perry & SFII characters.

― kingfish hobo juckie (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:42 (twenty years ago)

The first time I looked at that I thought it was (the extremely litigous) P3t3 Burn5 standing next to Geddy.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:48 (twenty years ago)

it's hearing plot summaries like this that make me glad i have most of the season tivoed

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

makes me glad. god i need sleep

― nervous (cochere), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:51 (twenty years ago)

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soon now. very soon.

― dabnis coleman's ghost (dubplatestyle), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:52 (twenty years ago)

Maybe you can afford it if you sell all your records!

― Nip nip nip nip nip / Tuck, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 16:53 (twenty years ago)

there was a kid in my town when i was growing up who had his nose bitten off by a dog...they put an artificial one on for him...its horrible. it looks like someone put a slab of ham on his face.

― bingo (Chris V), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:06 (twenty years ago)

Where donors would come from is one issue that would have to be considered.

"And there is the possibility that the donor would then carry on breathing."

...

My mom had a middle school student who tried to kill himself with a shotgun and blew his face off :(

― 'you' vs. 'radio gnome invisible 3' FITE (ex machina), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:27 (twenty years ago)

http://img224.imageshack.us/img224/9071/thewhofacedancescd1io.jpg

― monkeybutler, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 17:35 (twenty years ago)

Occupations apparently requiring big noses...

― M. V. (M.V.), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 18:02 (twenty years ago)

Face transplants are great - it's representations of them that mess everything up. People once had (well, many still have) all these ethical dillemas with (other) organ transplant too. But we align identity with faces, not internal organs, so, yeah, that's where the problems enter. Popular science getting tossed around with media&capitalism makes for these realistic representations that aren't actually concerned with fact. What to do? And who to do it? Anyway, I find this endless fascinating.

I love Nip/Tuck and I love Face/Off but they are both insane with misrepresentation and drama is their driving force, not accuracy or education. Esp Face/Off! haha, so awesome - you can't change bone structure by laying tissue over it! (or. can. you??)

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:02 (twenty years ago)

there was a kid in my town when i was growing up who had his nose bitten off by a dog...they put an artificial one on for him...its horrible. it looks like someone put a slab of ham on his face
TS: Nose that looks like a slab of ham -vs- Face that looks like a canned ham. (aka "Buzz" .. or maybe that's "Nick" - I can't remember who's who.)

― D.I.Y. U.N.K.L.E. (dave225.3), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 19:08 (twenty years ago)

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I just saw this on thanksgiving!!

― andy --, Wednesday, 30 November 2005 20:58 (twenty years ago)

Don't forget Jocelyne Wildenstein. She has a face to donate.

― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:10 (twenty years ago)

Popular science getting tossed around with media&capitalism makes for these realistic representations that aren't actually concerned with fact.

I can't tell whether you're bemoaning this or not, rrrobyn.

― jaymc (jaymc), Wednesday, 30 November 2005 23:14 (twenty years ago)

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