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04-26-2010, 04:30 PM
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Re: Ever Wanted a Normal Face?
You guys, #4 was shot in the face with a rifle.. Connie Culp is her name. "It’s clear the surgery didn’t turn Connie Culp into a beauty queen, per se: her facial expression still appears a little wooden, but she can talk, laugh and finally taste and smell her food again. It also takes a while to get used to her manner of speaking, and her face still looks a little disfigured: her cheeks droop down to her neck. Doctors will remove these skin flaps once the blood circulation and the muscles are stimulated by the new nerves... Culp’s husband Thomas shot her straight in the middle of her face with a rifle before turning the weapon on himself – both only barely managed to survive. While Thomas went to prison, his wife fought for her life in hospital. The gunshot had ruined her nose, cheeks, mouth and a part of her right eye. Hundreds of little bone fragments and munition shrapnel made up her central facial area after the incident. Breathing alone proved to be an endlessly difficult task. Only the eyelids, her forehead, her lower lip and her chin remained unaffected." |