RB TexLa
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Mon Feb-06-06 09:17 PM
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Can someone explain the coverage of the "face transplant" |
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I haven't paid any attention to this except to know that a woman was attacked by a dog and they have transplanted part of another person's face to her. What is all the news coverage on it? Is it thought of as that amazing medically or do people think there is something sinister or such?
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Mon Feb-06-06 09:18 PM
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1. It's the first time this procedure has been done. |
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Mon Feb-06-06 09:19 PM
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2. amazing possiblities if this is a success |
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think of the hope for severely burned and otherwise disfigured and deformed folk
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Mon Feb-06-06 09:21 PM
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3. Of course they could always grow parts on a rat's back. n/t |
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Mon Feb-06-06 09:23 PM
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6. Boy! Some good jokes could really come from that one. |
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Mon Feb-06-06 09:22 PM
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5. Are you kidding did you see her? |
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Mon Feb-06-06 10:44 PM
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11. yes - I think she looks quite decent |
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Mon Feb-06-06 10:45 PM
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13. To me she looked like the muscles in her face were not connected |
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Tue Feb-07-06 02:48 AM
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she still has to regain some control of muscles but come one, what she has now is much better than not having a nose or lips - the poor thang could not even eat
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Tue Feb-07-06 03:57 AM
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18. If you've ever seen a person with their face burned off, |
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you wouldn't say that.
but, as others have pointed out, there is more surgery and physical therapy to come.
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Mon Feb-06-06 09:24 PM
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7. And she doesn't look bad. |
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I was expecting her to still look like she had had a face transplant, but so far, it seems to have worked out.
Now, we just need to get more people to be donors.
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Mon Feb-06-06 10:44 PM
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they have a hard enough time just getting people to donate blood fer chrissakes
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Mon Feb-06-06 10:47 PM
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I just keep telling everyone in my family, over and over, that if anything happens to me to donate everything and have the rest cremated. What they will do however... :shrug:
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Mon Feb-06-06 09:22 PM
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4. I'm glad there was help for her |
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But EVERY news site had the picture right in your face on the front page.
As if this was of enormous importance to everyone. It just seemed exploitative, that close up.
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Mon Feb-06-06 09:39 PM
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8. The really weird thing is she was trying to overdose. |
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Edited on Mon Feb-06-06 09:40 PM by PVK
And the dog bit her to wake her up.
Then, the face she got was from a woman who committed suicide.
Now she likes her new face better than her old one.
Think that now she will be happier and not try to kill herself?
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Tue Feb-07-06 02:50 AM
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17. she's receving massive psychological support for the face issue |
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hopefully they can work on the other demons she suffered with
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Mon Feb-06-06 10:10 PM
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9. because it's easy for morons to understand |
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there are no complicated issues for the sheeple to attempt to reason out.
same with all the other non-stories(murder mysteries) which are shoved down our throats on cable news.
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Mon Feb-06-06 10:24 PM
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10. I was just watching it on CNN. |
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It's hard not to wonder how the family of the donor must feel. Certainly they have seen the pictures as they're all over the news. As a nurse, I probably see it as a positive thing, although it seemed kind of bizarre and creepy in the newscast.
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Tue Feb-07-06 02:49 AM
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16. just another diversion . . . they scan the news for offbeat stories . . . |
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that can hold the attention of a nation of tv addicts, and when they find one they run with it . . . doesn't matter what it is, as long as it diverts attention from BushCo and what they're doing to this country . . . apparently they've learned that most people can only focus on one thing at a time . . .
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:19 AM
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20. I was really amazed at the progress her face has made. It takes |
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up to a year for nerve damage (surgical or not) to repair. It was quite impressive to me. We have to remember the length of time for any transplant healing to occur.
I think that it is immoral for anyone to make judgments on how she got there (overdose or not). That was the disgusting ABC correspondents focus. I hate these RW'ers!
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Tue Feb-07-06 04:15 AM
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19. It was sad that people question whether she was worthy of the procedure |
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Over and over I heard people say that since she had (apparently) been suicidal at the time of her accident, the transplant would just be "wasted' on her. That was really sad. :-(
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