Entertainment | 05/15/2009 12:05 pm
Face Transplant Survivor Isabelle Dinoire Wishes 'Immense Courage' to Connie Culp
Isabelle Dinoire, the world’s first face transplant patient, shared
encouraging words to Connie Culp, America’s first face-transplant
recipient.
Isabelle Dinoire on 'Good Morning America'
The world’s first face-transplant recipient, Isabelle Dinoire, had special words for Connie Culp, the first face-transplant patient in the United States.
"I wish you immense courage," Dinoire said on ABC’s "Good Morning America."
Dinoire, of Amiens, France, was viciously attacked by her dog and left with an unrecognizable, disfigured face. On November 27, 2005, at the age of 38, she underwent 15 hours of surgery to receive, essentially, a new face. Dinoire explained that it has been an emotional journey to adjust to her new appearance, and she sometimes felt that she wasn’t living in her own body, especially when movement and feeling did not return all at once.
"It was very strange," Dinoire said. "I had the impression that it wasn’t a living thing, that it wasn’t really part of my body. Now it feels again like my own mouth."
Dinoire, like Culp, also follows a lifelong regimen of immunosuppressing
medications, which can lead to infection and other diseases.
Image from Connie Culp’s interview on "Good Morning America"
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My heart goes out to these women.
I had to undergo plastic surgery at the age of 15 due to a car accident. I can tell you, so much is taken for granted when it comes to our appearance. I heard school friends comment about "what a shame" it was…"such a pretty girl"…."too bad"…
Time and medical services can help heal much…for some, the self worth is longer in healing. One thing that I do know, Universal Health care will inhibit the experiemental surgeries that enable miracle like this to happen. Private care allows for the research money and rewards that support these life changing and saving techniques.
There for the grace of God go I……
Am so sorry that you had to go through that. Universal health care might be coming down the pike because there are just too many people any more to take care of. That, of course, leads to pro-choice, pro-life but that is another question. There may be a catastrophic insurance one could have in case of these kinds of surgeries. I would hope so because I can’t see our health and insurance system just having one option. That isn’t the American way.
Kelly,
I’m "Certain" that your beauty matches your intelligence! :)
HA BIBI…thank you that was very sweet of you to say…altough there are a few here would not agree with you on that one!
Hey, make up has come a long way…hair styles help too….hardly visible any longer. But back in the day, it was quite something for a young girl to go through.
This Universal health care will not work. Where is the money coming from?
Doctors wil leave, care will be substandard, research will be at a minimum. Just check out what other countries have…we have the best. This Universal Health Care is all about the government making the money…GE…stands to make BILLIONS.
Please someone name ONE thing that the government does better than private business.
One…
Kelly,
My dear, you should know by now that those others have no meaning to mean and therefore should matter not to you as well! You are beautiful and intelligent.
I will gladly tell you one thing the Government does better than private business…….Destroy it! Am I correct? :))
Back in the day, this blonde lived in a land of Socialized Health Care.
My then baby daughter one day had a cold. I took her to the nearest hospital to see a doctor. Baby and I sat in the waiting room for 5 hours to see a doctor, visit lasted only 3 minutes, then we went on our merry way.
Six months later, on a trip home to the US, we both developed a staff infection. The strain of infection was so unusual that it took five doctors (including my best friend who was studying infections at a university for her doctorate) to diagnose it. Only two medicines were diagnosed to treat it. One would have turned my childs teeth black, the other I’m allergic to. I took one, she took the other.
When we asked the doctors where we had contacted this extremely unusual infection, they told us that it usually happens in old people who are deathly ill in hospital beds. After further discussion, we decided the only place we could have been exposed to this was, yes you’re right! the hospitals in Japan where we had to wait for hours to see a doctor.
Universal Health Care does not work, it makes people SICKER and guess what? The people who live in foreign countries come HERE to get better because we have the best health care in the US!
I agree with you… and yes, our staff infections are gone (I still have scars though)….
Hatchimitsu…love that name…reminds me of a character in a movie ;]
Great post….I hope that many read it, believe it….hear the wisdom….understand the implications….open their eyes and let their brains breathe….
Thank you so much for sharing….I know this is but one story but it, indeed, gives the overall idea of what we will be faced with if we go to socialized medicine. So far, Obama and his band of democrats are losing ground and probably won’t get it off the table. He is fast losing his ability to be a good salesman. Stating he wants to model this plan after Germany won’t fly with intelligent Americans.
Think massive tax increases to supply the revenue for a government operated plan.