The Man With the New Face and New Lease on Life

The Man With the New Face and New Lease on Life, In September 2001, a again 27-year-old advance aboriginal responder from Senatobia, Miss., ran into a afire home on a accomplishment search. The roof burst on him, which resulted in astringent burns beyond his absolute face, head, neck, and high torso. Patrick, a ancestor of three, absent his eyelids, ears, lips, and a lot of of his nose, as able-bodied as his hair, including his eyebrows.

After Patrick underwent 71 surgeries that larboard him with a baby bulk of vision, a adolescent firefighter and abbey affiliate accomplished out to Eduardo D. Rodriguez, MD, who had performed a 2012 face displace at the University of Maryland Medical Center. In August 2014, Rodriguez, who was now the armchair of the Wyss Department of Plastic Anaplasty at NYU Langone Medical Center, placed Patrick on a cat-and-mouse list.

While the medical aggregation searched for a donor — anyone who was a bout with Patrick on assertive biological ancestry and aswell had agnate derma and hair appearance — Patrick backward optimistic.

“I’m not nervous, I’m aflame because I’m accessible for aggregate to get going,” he declared in a video created by NYU. “I apperceive He’s (God’s) got an angel out there for me about and He’s traveling to alarm on him one day.”

One year later, the donor was found: 26-year-old Brooklyn-based artisan and aggressive bicyclist David P. Rodebaugh, who was tragically dead in a biking accident. David’s mom gave permission for the transplant, abacus that her son had consistently capital to be a firefighter, according to the Associated Press. The anaplasty took abode the morning of Aug. 14, 2015. It lasted 26 hours and appropriate a aggregation of added than 100 medical practitioners. The displace extends from the top of the head, over Patrick’s skull, and down to the collarbones in front. In back, it alcove far abundant down that alone a tiny application of Patrick’s aboriginal hair charcoal — its blush akin by the aphotic albino hair growing on his new scalp. The displace includes both ears.

“When we anticipate about a new life, I anticipate what a lot of humans wish to apprehend is the ball of a new face,” declared Rodriguez in the NYU video. “But if you in fact ask those individuals what is that they miss, you’d be afraid the things we yield for accepted every day that for them [are] a new beginning.”

In the account appear by the AP, Rodriguez said that in the future, “a accidental eyewitness will not apprehension annihilation that is odd” in Patrick’s new face, which will alloy appearance of his aboriginal face and the donor’s. 

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