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Connie Culp, 1st US partial face transplant recipient, dies

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The recipient of the first partial face transplant in the U.S. has died almost a dozen years after the groundbreaking operationBy RON TODT Associated PressAugust 1, 2020, 6:01 PM3 min readShare to FacebookShare to TwitterEmail this article Connie Culp, the recipient of the first partial face transplant in the U.S., has died at 57, almost a dozen years after the groundbreaking operation. The Cleveland Clinic, where her surgery had been performed in 2008, said Saturday that Culp died Wednesday at the Ohio clinic of complications from an infection unrelated to her transplant. Dr. Frank Papay, who is the chair of Cleveland Clinic’s dermatology and plastic surgery institute and was part of Culp's surgical team, called her “an incredibly brave, vibrant woman and an inspiration to many." “Her st...

Nov242018 by adminNo Comments

Face transplant recipient thanks his donor's mother in tear-jerking moment

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Since receiving his face transplant 10 months ago, Cameron Underwood has slowly but surely gotten comfortable being out and about in public. But he was riddled with anxiety before a certain meeting that the now-26-year-old and his mother went to recently. Waiting for them on a Manhattan apartment patio was Sally Fisher, the mother of Underwood’s donor. Fisher would once again be looking into the face of her late son, Will Fisher, but that face now belonged to someone else. "I know how my heart feels…I’m scared because it brings back the loss of my son," she told ABC News' "20/20." Others had come along to the Manhattan reunion to give the trio moral support, including Will Fisher’s family, and Cam Underwood’s brother Aaron Underwood. Dr. Eduardo...

Oct12018 by adminNo Comments

Youngest US face transplant recipient shares story of suicide survival and hope

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As a star student and a promising athlete at her Mississippi high school, with college ambitions, it seemed that the sky was the limit for then-17-year-old Katie Stubblefield, her father said. "She was driven for a purpose," her father, Robb Stubblefield, told "Nightline." "When she was a kid, she played soccer from the time she was, what, 4 years old? And she was not very nice at playing soccer ... they used to call her 'bulldozer.'" But amid the stress of looking at colleges and looking ahead to graduation, the teen's life took a detour. Now, four years later, she has a different story to tell -- one that describes the emotional struggles of adolescence, the permanence of split-second decisions and how two troubled souls came together to create a second chance. This story will b...

Jul72017 by adminNo Comments

Mother of organ donor meets recipient at his daughter's wedding

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Kellye Pummill will never get to see her deceased daughter, Marissa Pummill, walk down the aisle but she did get to watch the man whose life was saved by one of Marissa Pummill’s organs walk his own daughter down the aisle. “It was bittersweet,” Kellye Pummill, of Mesa, Arizona, said of attending Kiasa VanCleave’s wedding last month in Idaho. “And very emotional.” Kellye Pummill’s daughter took her own life in October 2014 at the age of 21. Just one week after her death, Marissa Pummill’s liver was transplanted into VanCleave’s dad, Troy Westover. “It means that she lives on. She lives on in six other people,” Kellye Pummill said of her daughter, whose organs were donated to six people in total. "Troy would have never been able to walk his daughter down the aisle." Troy Westover, 43, ...