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"It's just not my face, but I'm grateful for it," says American
"It's just not my face, but I'm grateful for it," said the American, who made a full face transplant after it fired her husband, who, as a woman says she still loves ...
To date, Connie Culp already enjoys the fact that she can make up lipstick lips - because before surgery face transplant, which was performed in 2008, any makeup for her was impossible. Her upper lip, nose, palate, eyes and cheeks were destroyed as a result of the fact that her husband, Tom, in a fit of sudden fury fired point-blank at her face.
native Ogayon Connie Culp 48 years old, she became the first patient who underwent a full face transplant in the United States, and now she says that is domestic violence, and through the horror she had to pass through the fault of the person, as she claims, she still loves.
The other day it pyatidesyatidvuhletny husband was released from prison, where he spent seven years.
Connie Culp before and after the surgery.
It looked like the profile of Miss Culp before surgery face transplant, and this is how it looks today.
Describing the moment in which her life was changed forever, Miss Culp says: "I remember everything. That's what the doctors can not believe.
"I remember how he raised his gun, he told me, and he shot. This memory will never leave me, it will stay with me for a lifetime. This is the moment when everything changed forever ».
As a result of the disaster that occurred in 2004, Miss Culp almost completely blind.
Miss Culp says that her husband was no stranger to domestic violence. "He hit me a couple of times and before. He tried to intimidate me ».
But despite NATO, which made the woman her ex-husband, Connie says she still loves him.
"I probably will always love him, because he's the father of my children. But stay with him, I can not, "she admitted.
So Miss Culp appeared before the accident, which occurred in 2004.
Only recently, a woman dared to enter the bar, which was owned by her and her husband and in which the tragedy occurred.
"He was jealous of me all the time because I had to communicate with customers. Do not think that only men I spoke with women, too, with female visitors and collaborators, and to them he was jealous of me too. " According to his wife, Culp repeatedly broke and broke things in fits of uncontrollable rage.
After he point-blank shot in the face of his wife, Tom Culp shoved the barrel in his mouth and fired. Were seriously wounded, he nevertheless survived, as well as his wife.
According to the woman, the husband did not admit his guilt, he constantly utvrezhdaet that he was provoked.
After the disaster that occurred in 2004, children Connie, thirty son Steven and daughter Alicia twenty-eight did not depart from his mother, who for months has remained in the hospital - the doctors tried unsuccessfully to restore the disfigured face.
Although the woman is very bad spots, it does not leave the house without make-up - it helps her feel more confident.
Miss Culp next to the bar in Houpdeyle, Ohio, where the tragedy occurred.
In this photo, stylized 1920s, Mrs. Culp sits on the piano surrounded by his children, Alicia and Stephen, and her husband Tom naparvlyaet her gun.
It looked like a skull Miss Culp before surgery, and began to look after.
Ms. Culp, her daughter Alicia and four Miss Culp grandson Maddox.
Miss Culp plays with her grandson Maddox.
Although Miss Culp still walks with a cane, but she tries as much as possible to spend more time with his grandson outdoors.
Left: Miss Culp and Chad Gordon surgeon after the operation in 2008. Right: Miss Culp and Chad Gordon in 2011.
All these pills Miss Culp now has to be taken daily, to avoid rejection.
Incredible - but husband dared to even rebuke them a wounded woman, that she testified against him in the police. "I would have never passed!", He argued. What Connie said that would never have started shooting at him.
In October 2008, Connie Culp underwent surgery for face transplant at the hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Chad Gordon, one of eight surgeons who participated in the procedure, said that the main problem was to find a donor of the same age and the same blood group. In the end, it was the woman who died of a heart attack. Doctors warned Connie that the operation could go badly because it was extremely risky.
A team of doctors led by Dr. Maria Semenova held over the operating table for more than 20 hours, and as a result of Connie Culp received a new face.
To date, Connie Culp already enjoys the fact that she can make up lipstick lips - because before surgery face transplant, which was performed in 2008, any makeup for her was impossible. Her upper lip, nose, palate, eyes and cheeks were destroyed as a result of the fact that her husband, Tom, in a fit of sudden fury fired point-blank at her face.
native Ogayon Connie Culp 48 years old, she became the first patient who underwent a full face transplant in the United States, and now she says that is domestic violence, and through the horror she had to pass through the fault of the person, as she claims, she still loves.
The other day it pyatidesyatidvuhletny husband was released from prison, where he spent seven years.
Connie Culp before and after the surgery.
It looked like the profile of Miss Culp before surgery face transplant, and this is how it looks today.
Describing the moment in which her life was changed forever, Miss Culp says: "I remember everything. That's what the doctors can not believe.
"I remember how he raised his gun, he told me, and he shot. This memory will never leave me, it will stay with me for a lifetime. This is the moment when everything changed forever ».
As a result of the disaster that occurred in 2004, Miss Culp almost completely blind.
Miss Culp says that her husband was no stranger to domestic violence. "He hit me a couple of times and before. He tried to intimidate me ».
But despite NATO, which made the woman her ex-husband, Connie says she still loves him.
"I probably will always love him, because he's the father of my children. But stay with him, I can not, "she admitted.
So Miss Culp appeared before the accident, which occurred in 2004.
Only recently, a woman dared to enter the bar, which was owned by her and her husband and in which the tragedy occurred.
"He was jealous of me all the time because I had to communicate with customers. Do not think that only men I spoke with women, too, with female visitors and collaborators, and to them he was jealous of me too. " According to his wife, Culp repeatedly broke and broke things in fits of uncontrollable rage.
After he point-blank shot in the face of his wife, Tom Culp shoved the barrel in his mouth and fired. Were seriously wounded, he nevertheless survived, as well as his wife.
According to the woman, the husband did not admit his guilt, he constantly utvrezhdaet that he was provoked.
After the disaster that occurred in 2004, children Connie, thirty son Steven and daughter Alicia twenty-eight did not depart from his mother, who for months has remained in the hospital - the doctors tried unsuccessfully to restore the disfigured face.
Although the woman is very bad spots, it does not leave the house without make-up - it helps her feel more confident.
Miss Culp next to the bar in Houpdeyle, Ohio, where the tragedy occurred.
In this photo, stylized 1920s, Mrs. Culp sits on the piano surrounded by his children, Alicia and Stephen, and her husband Tom naparvlyaet her gun.
It looked like a skull Miss Culp before surgery, and began to look after.
Ms. Culp, her daughter Alicia and four Miss Culp grandson Maddox.
Miss Culp plays with her grandson Maddox.
Although Miss Culp still walks with a cane, but she tries as much as possible to spend more time with his grandson outdoors.
Left: Miss Culp and Chad Gordon surgeon after the operation in 2008. Right: Miss Culp and Chad Gordon in 2011.
All these pills Miss Culp now has to be taken daily, to avoid rejection.
Incredible - but husband dared to even rebuke them a wounded woman, that she testified against him in the police. "I would have never passed!", He argued. What Connie said that would never have started shooting at him.
In October 2008, Connie Culp underwent surgery for face transplant at the hospital in Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Chad Gordon, one of eight surgeons who participated in the procedure, said that the main problem was to find a donor of the same age and the same blood group. In the end, it was the woman who died of a heart attack. Doctors warned Connie that the operation could go badly because it was extremely risky.
A team of doctors led by Dr. Maria Semenova held over the operating table for more than 20 hours, and as a result of Connie Culp received a new face.
