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Cody Dawg · Jan 18, 2006, 09:37 PM

Face transplant victim resumes smoking.

This situation is a disaster.

She got her "face" from another woman who committed suicide...she lost her "face" because she tried to commit suicide and her dog chewed her face off while she was unconscious.

Now she's smoking again even though it endangers her new "face" and health.

What an idiot.

Cody Dawg · Jan 18, 2006, 09:42 PM

Just read this also: First time out in public and she's apparently taken up drinking again also.

Face transplant victim goes to a bar - accompanied by her psychiatrist.

Way to go doc!

Kerrigan · Jan 18, 2006, 09:42 PM

ONLY in America

wait, what? France? sacre bleu!

Mastrap · Jan 18, 2006, 09:44 PM

Nicotine is insanely addictive. You see people who are in hospital for smoking related diseases outside for a smoke. I gave up nearly ten years ago, it was without doubt one of the most difficult things I've ever done.

euchomai · Jan 18, 2006, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by Mastrap

Nicotine is insanely addictive. You see people who are in hospital for smoking related diseases outside for a smoke. I gave up nearly ten years ago, it was without doubt one of the most difficult things I've ever done.

I agree with you, nicotine is crazy. You can have lung cancer, and live or die is the question. You answer it by smoking anyway, essentially choosing death. Very powerful indeed.

Who are we to judge this lady anyway. It's her life and now she has a face, it's her choice now. We can only hope she makes wise ones. What choices are we making in private that are just as horrible, we just don't have reporters following us around.

cjrivera · Jan 18, 2006, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Just read this also: First time out in public and she's apparently taken up drinking again also.

Face transplant victim goes to a bar - accompanied by her psychiatrist.

Way to go doc!

From the article...

"The trip to central Lyon was part of a process the doctors have organized to help the 38-year-old woman prepare to re-enter society as the world's first person to wear a transplanted face.
One goal is to help her anticipate and react to what friends and other people might say about her new appearance and to adjust to eventual exposure to hordes of photographers and journalists, said Bernard Devauchelle, the surgeon who performed the transplant operation in Amiens with Jean-Michel Dubernard, also a leader of the transplant team, assisting."

It doesn't sound like the reason they were going to out was to party it up and get trashed...

euchomai · Jan 18, 2006, 10:17 PM

Originally Posted by cjrivera

From the article...

"The trip to central Lyon was part of a process the doctors have organized to help the 38-year-old woman prepare to re-enter society as the world's first person to wear a transplanted face.
One goal is to help her anticipate and react to what friends and other people might say about her new appearance and to adjust to eventual exposure to hordes of photographers and journalists, said Bernard Devauchelle, the surgeon who performed the transplant operation in Amiens with Jean-Michel Dubernard, also a leader of the transplant team, assisting."

It doesn't sound like the reason they were going to out was to party it up and get trashed...

Yeah, that's what happens when you only read the headlines at Drudge.

Spook E · Jan 18, 2006, 11:39 PM

anyone got a pic of this bird? Is she hideous or what?

Leia's Left Bun · Jan 18, 2006, 11:47 PM

If I was the doctor I would take the face back. Stupid assed woman.

MindFad · Jan 18, 2006, 11:51 PM

Originally Posted by Spook E

anyone got a pic of this bird? Is she hideous or what?

Who knows, who cares? But one thing is certain—she smokes and drinks, so it's best we keep the internet on topic, OK?

Cody Dawg · Jan 19, 2006, 05:30 AM

Oh, GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK:

They organized a trip to a BAR? There was nowhere else they could go to in PARIS? A BAR?!?

What a bunch of crap.

She's a loser, plain and simple. It's all over the news this morning.

Giving up smoking was the hardest thing she could do?

SHE GAVE IT UP! SHE GAVE IT UP SEVERAL MONTHS AGO WHEN SHE HAD NO LIPS TO SMOKE WITH!

Don't tell us that it was hard for her to stop...SHE HAD STOPPED.

I always laugh at people. They have a heart attack or have to go into the hospital for a long time and they are FORCED to stop smoking. They don't smoke in there.

They have, for all intents and purposes, QUIT.

Then they get out of the hospital and they START smoking again weeks or months later.

WHAT LOSERS.

Seb G · Jan 19, 2006, 05:52 AM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Oh, GIVE ME A FREAKING BREAK:

They organized a trip to a BAR? There was nowhere else they could go to in PARIS? A BAR?!?

Culture alert! French bars serve coffee, it's one of the most normal things in life to drink your morning coffee in a bar on the way to work.

Cody Dawg · Jan 19, 2006, 05:54 AM

Well, that makes it better.

Thanks, Seb G.

P.S., I like the name Sebastian.

- - e r i k - - · Jan 19, 2006, 06:03 AM

Oh dear! Mentally disturbed woman tries to get back into society. Quick! Alert MacNN!

Cody Dawg · Jan 19, 2006, 06:06 AM

What a profound and thought-invoking post - - e r i k - -

Kevin · Jan 19, 2006, 06:40 AM

Anything can be quit. You just have to want to. Obviously she doesn't want to yet.

Cody Dawg · Jan 19, 2006, 06:55 AM

Pearls of wisdom from you again, Kevin.

I guess she just wanted a new face so that she could go back to her old destructive and addictive behavior.

Next thing you know she'll have lung cancer and be begging for "a new and untested double lung transplant - the first of it's kind."

moonmonkey · Jan 19, 2006, 07:02 AM

Cody,

Bars are not evil places in the real world.

JoshuaZ · Jan 19, 2006, 07:05 AM

Bars are places top be entertained, to be amused, to find love, lose love, throw up, spend all your cash, get beaten up by strange Australians, see a friend make out with a Phillapeno lady boy, to go when feeling depressed, to find a new home, to lose your home, to lose your friend's home, and as always, to forget about life for awhile.

Cody Dawg · Jan 19, 2006, 07:13 AM

moonmonkey: Quit hijacking the thread. This is about a woman who wanted a new face and now that she has the new face she's taken up smoking and is in danger of losing that new face. Not bars.

- - e r i k - - · Jan 19, 2006, 07:51 AM

How was that hijacking this thread? It doesn't really have a topic. Not a worthwhile one anyway.

MrsLarry · Jan 19, 2006, 08:18 AM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Now she's smoking again even though it endangers her new "face" and health.

What an idiot.

THIS lady again!!! I don't even think she should have gotten the face in the first place. Typically, if a person has self-destructive tendencies, or is likely to endanger their new "organ" they wouldn't even be considered for a transplant! That crazy doctor just wanted to be the first to do the surgery, he wanted to go down in history, so he disregarded the rules. And he will, as an idiot!

wdlove · Jan 19, 2006, 08:19 AM

Very sad, vanity is not the way to happiness. Hope that she will find what she is looking for in life.

Looking forward to a chat today, I have some good news.

robfarri · Jan 19, 2006, 08:44 AM

Some staggeringly insensitive posts in response to a woman who is obviously suffering severe mental trauma. If I had MY face ripped off then I would probably take up smoking! I don't really think vanity has anything to do with it

turtle777 · Jan 19, 2006, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

ONLY in America
wait, what? France? sacre bleu!

America + France / 2 = Canada ?

Cody Dawg · Jan 19, 2006, 09:06 AM

Hey, You ^^^

Love your name AND the post!

turtle777 · Jan 19, 2006, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Hey, You ^^^
Love your name AND the post!

Hello Cody ! Thanks, I appreciate it.

Eug Wanker · Jan 19, 2006, 09:33 AM

Originally Posted by Kerrigan

ONLY in America

wait, what? France? sucre bleu!

Fixed

besson3c · Jan 19, 2006, 09:59 AM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Face transplant victim resumes smoking.

This situation is a disaster.

She got her "face" from another woman who committed suicide...she lost her "face" because she tried to commit suicide and her dog chewed her face off while she was unconscious.

Now she's smoking again even though it endangers her new "face" and health.

What an idiot.

Something I don't understand, Cody...

Do you enjoy expressing an opinion when it is a judgement of somebody else's character? I mean, I happen to agree with you here, but stupid people do stupid things all the time. You seem somewhat bothered by this, are you? Do the things stupid people do surprise you? Upset you?

I've long since believed that there are people out there that do stupid things. My beliefs generally don't need reaffirming with stories like this. Am I cynical for thinking this way about people?

vexborg · Jan 19, 2006, 10:03 AM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

I always laugh at people.

Yeah, and we laugh at you

Kevin · Jan 19, 2006, 01:29 PM

moonmonkey · Jan 19, 2006, 01:29 PM

Originally Posted by - - e r i k - -

How was that hijacking this thread? It doesn't really have a topic. Not a worthwhile one anyway.

Very uncharacteristically grumpy of her.

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

I always laugh at people. They have a heart attack or have to go into the hospital for a long time and they are FORCED to stop smoking. They don't smoke in there.

I can think of funnier things than chronic substance abusers with heart disease.

Cody Dawg · Jan 19, 2006, 04:46 PM

My POINT is that a lot of physicians and doctors tried to give this woman a second chance in life and what does she do? Something that seriously impedes her healing process and in fact endangers her life.

That's all.

I find it really strange.

MrsLarry said it best
THIS lady again!!! I don't even think she should have gotten the face in the first place. Typically, if a person has self-destructive tendencies, or is likely to endanger their new "organ" they wouldn't even be considered for a transplant! That crazy doctor just wanted to be the first to do the surgery, he wanted to go down in history, so he disregarded the rules. And he will, as an idiot!

demograph68 · Jan 19, 2006, 05:01 PM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

She got her "face" from another woman who committed suicide...she lost her "face" because she tried to commit suicide and her dog chewed her face off while she was unconscious.

That right there is one good reason not to own a dog if you're suicidal.

- - e r i k - - · Jan 19, 2006, 05:11 PM

Cody Dawg · Jan 19, 2006, 05:23 PM

That right there is one good reason not to own a dog if you're suicidal.

Kevin · Jan 19, 2006, 05:25 PM

- - e r i k - - I've seen you be judgemental many times in here.

This thread for example.

If you are going to attack someone from being judgmental, you better make sure your slate is clean.

MrsLarry · Jan 19, 2006, 05:43 PM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

MrsLarry said it best

Thanks for the props, Cody!

Cody Dawg · Jan 19, 2006, 05:48 PM

Hey, anything for my peeps.

wdlove · Jan 20, 2006, 11:38 AM

Originally Posted by Cody Dawg

Hey, anything for my peeps.

Your missed so much.