Isabelle Dinoire, the woman with the face transplant,
describes how she discovered half of her face had been chewed off by her dog:
"That's when I saw the pool of blood and the dog beside it."
Ms. Dinoire said she went to look at herself in a mirror and "couldn't believe what I was seeing — it was too horrible."
Her lips were gone, along with her chin and much of her nose, leaving her teeth and part of her lower jawbone exposed, her doctors said....
Ms. Dinoire's doctors said it would be months before they would know how much motor control she would develop in the transplanted part of her face. But Ms. Dinoire said that "being able to show emotions through my face" was already the best thing about her transplant and that she hoped to eventually be able to smile and grimace.
Ah, to grimace again! I hope you appreciate your ability to grimace. Go on, celebrate life. Do some good grimacing today!
She said the transplant had been a long ordeal, but that "in the end, I never really suffered."
She defended her decision to resume smoking within weeks of the transplant, something remarked upon by the news media.
"Anyway, I never stopped smoking," she said, adding that she regrets only the trouble the news of her smoking caused.
Oh, give the woman a break. She's entitled to her pleasures as she defines them. This is a person who, on awakening from a deep unconscious state with her face chewed off, did not notice that something had gone horribly wrong but that she needed a smoke. That is some serious devotion to smoking.
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The lesson here is to always feed the dog before you plan on being unconscious.
You left out the sleeping pills that explain how she could have her face chewed off and not notice, let alone wake up. Those are some serious sleeping pills.
Or is that too judgmental a thing to say?
Well, did you grimace when you said it? She can smoke away, in my opinion, as long as I don't have to smell it. Everyone does things that are unhealthy...some vices are just more visible than others.
Dave: You should consider whether I was being judgmental in saying leave her alone. Perhaps I'm saying that in her case, trying to live a long time and avoid cancer is a small matter. But here you are, trying to entice us into being judgmental about you being judgmental. I'm not going to fall down that rat hole.
Concerned Citizen: that could also be one helluva smoking habit.
Is anyone else awed by how cool it is that man can transplant a face? That is so cool.
Smoking makes it difficult to heal, and will destroy the skin of the new face. Perhaps the question here is the extent to which the collective we want to pay to palliate obvious self-destruction?
Well, Simon, she flirted with suicide and her donor accomplished the act, so self-destruction is sort of off the table here.
Best of luck to her. It's just another body part that's being transplanted, right? What's the big deal? Just another opportunity for people to condemn her for whatever societal piety she seems to be violating.
If her smoking causes problems with the face transplant... is that a slap in the face of the family of the donor?
Re: "Oh, give the woman a break. She's entitled to her pleasures as she defines them."
Absolutely, Ann. As evidenced in some of the posts here, however, our current health puritansim dictates that while any behavior between adults (plus or minus consent) is permissible - or even Oscar material- smoking is a sin.
The Sin of Smoking. It's the last refuge for those who wish to moralize but find that modern relativism has reduced all actions to mere preference. But smoking, which is evil. How could she?
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