Face transplant patient uses new lips to smoke

[Rudyjohn]

It's no big deal at all! Now, 80 or 90 might be kinda depressing, but otherwise...

 

[iwishiwasthere]

here is my plan of attack. we are going to celebrate it while we are in sowal, since we don't come home until 2 days before the actual bomb drops. i think if i have enough food, drink, funn, and sun (and of course sunburn) it will be quick and painless. esp. if i get a convertible i am hoping for - that would make it all better fo so !!!!

May you have better luck than I did....I asked for a Miata and got a mini van :shock: ...HUGE difference. I have yet to forgive that poor choice. The sad part is my sweet hubby used my girls as accomplices, so I could not be upset.

 

[Diane4145]

I would be sooo pissed off if I had been bypassed, when she was chosen for that procedure! We all here about the lengthy process you have to go thru, so what the **** happened? Personally, I think that they should reveal her name now and let her face the onslott! :clap_1: I once had a friend that had a breast reduction and lift procedure and blamed her Dr., for her continued problems in recovery! Though, against Doc's orders, she kept on puffin'!

From the Associated Press:

Updated: 5:41 p.m. ET Jan. 18, 2006
TUCSON, Ariz. - The world's first face transplant recipient is using her new lips to take up smoking again, which doctors fear could interfere with her healing and raise the risk of tissue rejection.

"It is a problem," Dr. Jean-Michel Dubernard, who led the team that performed the pioneering transplant in France on Nov. 27, acknowledged on Wednesday.

The woman's French surgeons made their first scientific presentation on the partial face transplant at a medical conference here this week.

The news about her smoking came even as American surgeons said that they were growing more comfortable with the French doctors' decision to try the operation and that they hoped to offer such transplants to more patients.

The 38-year-old Frenchwoman received a new nose, chin and lips from a brain-dead donor after being mauled by her dog last spring. The woman has been identified only as Isabelle because of French privacy laws.

The woman suffered a tissue-rejection episode last month but is now doing well, her doctors said. However, they said she has resumed smoking, which besides being bad in general for health is especially a problem after surgery because it impairs circulation to tissues and could raise the risk of rejection.

 

[audie]

May you have better luck than I did....I asked for a Miata and got a mini van :shock: ...HUGE difference. I have yet to forgive that poor choice. The sad part is my sweet hubby used my girls as accomplices, so I could not be upset.

i guaran-damn-tee i will get the vehicle that i want - i'll just go up the road to the honda place and say gimme, then when he gets home from work, there'll be my b-day present (and the payment book) waiting for him. i am such a thoughtful wife ain't i ??

 

[ShallowsNole]

I have to say, and I'm not proud of it, but I am an ex-smoker. I still struggle with it every day and it's been years & years! It has been the hardest thing I have ever done. Sometimes, I dream that I'm smoking! Sometimes I miss it but then I know that if I cheated just once, I'd be hooked for who knows how long. Just like other addictions and dependencies. So, I understand her addiction.

My story too, just like most of you...picked it up in Jr. High School, quit while pregnant, but baby had colic so I started again...finally put them down Memorial Day Weekend 1999, after 22 years,with the help of Zyban, Nicorette, and a drinking straw cut in half with a Kleenex stuck in it (makes a good substitute for something to hold in your hand and your mouth). Occasionally I still think about it...but I know that if I smoke one cigarette, after I quit coughing I'll smoke another, and another, and another. So, I just don't do it, and the urge passes.

Congrats to everyone else here who has won the battle! (Oh, and 40 is a breeze!) :clap_1:

 

[Teresa]

Oh audie, it really is no big deal. I hit it 4 years ago. I have never been happier or felt better in my life!!!! I love the 40's!!!!!!

you are my exact age! :clap_1:

 

[kathydwells]

you are my exact age! :clap_1:

And don't you feel great Toosie??? I do!!!! Well, maybe not today, because I have a cold, but in general I feel great to be ummmm.....44!!!!!!!!

 

[Teresa]

please let's not talk about the big 4-0, that bomb drops in around 122 days or so

30 was harder for me than 40. when I was growing up I thought 30 was old meat. but once I got to 40, I realized that it is all relative. Sheryl Crowe turned 40 and said that 40 is the new 30, and it's really true. Women are having babies at 40 (I did), and have so much to look forward to in the years to come... it's not all down hill until much much later, if at all.

celebrate!!!

 

[Teresa]

And don't you feel great Toosie??? I do!!!! Well, maybe not today, because I have a cold, but in general I feel great to be ummmm.....44!!!!!!!!

si, senora, I feel wonderful. going to get my hair "done" at 3:00 and I'll be looking great too...

 

[kathydwells]

si, senora, I feel wonderful. going to get my hair "done" at 3:00 and I'll be looking great too...

Have a great "hair" day. That alway's makes me feel better. Just for someone else to wash my hair for a change. And my friend that does my hair, does a great scalp massage while she is washing it. It feels so good!!!!