Carmen Tarleton, who had been disfigured after a brutal attack by her ex-husband, has become the first person in the world to perform two facial transplants.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The domestic violence survivor says she is “very happy” with the new look, after the problems she encountered after the first transplant.<\/p>\n
In 2007, Carmen Tarleton suffered horrific burns when her cruel ex-husband hit her with a baseball bat and threw abrasive chemicals in her face.<\/p>\n
He attacked with caustic soda, the substance used to unblock pipes and disinfect toilets, which blinded him in one eye and left him severely disfigured.<\/p>\n
The former nurse, who lives in Vermont, USA, says she underwent a face transplant in 2013 which lasted for seven years, when her body began to reject it and “returned to the disfigured state”.<\/p>\n
After more than 70 reconstructive surgeries, Carmen was offered a second transplant.<\/p>\n
A team of 40 doctors worked for 20 hours to complete complicated surgery at Boston Women\u2019s Hospital.<\/p>\n
Plastic surgeon Dr Bohdan Pomahac, who has been treating Carmen for more than 10 years, worried that her body might reject the second face as well.<\/p>\n
He said in an interview: “It is always complicated. The second time I believe it was more difficult as we had a lot of strangers. “We were very lucky to find a donor who had bodily characteristics similar to Carmen, as if he had a tribal connection with her.”<\/p>\n
The face donor was the mother of a child Casey Harrington Labrie, who died of a fentanyl drug overdose at the age of 36, after a long battle with addiction.<\/p>\n
Carmen thanked Casey’s family for what she called “the greatest gift anyone could have given her” and said she was “very happy” with the new face.<\/p>\n
The woman said: \u201cThis is my face, this is what they gave me. It is not the face I was born with but it is mine. “Every time I look in the mirror I think of Casey.”<\/p>\n
The woman adds that she is excited to see “what life will bring me” and that she does not want to “focus on negative things”.<\/p>\n
Herbert Rodgers, the perpetrator of the inhumane attack on Carmen, died in prison in 2017 after being sentenced to at least 30 years.<\/p>\n
This month in Britain, a man who has been blinded by his ex-girlfriend’s sulfuric acid attack said he still has insomnia and nightmares about the episode.<\/p>\n
Daniel Rotariu, 35, was sleeping when Katie Leong threw acid on his face in bed on the night of July 2016 in Leicester.<\/p>\n
He recalls arguing with Leong, and then going to bed, before waking up from unimaginable pain.<\/p>\n
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