Connie Culp is America’s first patient to undergo full face transplant operation. She was shot in the face by her husband Thomas Culp four years ago. The gunshot blasted part of her face off leaving her with a gushing hole in the middle of her face. After she had lived with her deformed face for years, Connie Culp was given a face from a dead woman who agreed to donate part of her body.

Plastic surgeons from Cleveland Clinic took on the challenge of transplanting full face onto a woman – something that has not been done in this country before. And the results? Connie Culp is still a little stiff in her facial expressions, but she can talk, smell and taste again.

Connie Culp Story

Connie Culp was shot in the face by what was obviously a failed murder suicide. Her husband Thomas Culp took a shot at his wife and then turned a gun on himself. Both Connie Culp and the shooter survived. Thomas Culp was sent to jail for seven years.

The gunshot however deformed Connie Culp’s face to a point that kids would run away screaming in horror when she walked down the street. The bone structure of her face was severely damaged, she had no nose and the only way she could breathe was through tracheotomy. Her sense of smell was destroyed, as were her eating and drinking reflexes.

To deal with her deformed face, Connie Culp underwent several reconstructive surgeries but they delivered little results. But that all changed in December of 2008. Connie Culp went under the scalpel of plastic surgeons to receive a full face transplant. She got new facial skin, the whole bone structure underneath the skin, all facial nerves are new and so are facial muscles. Connie Culp also received new lower eyelids and palates.

The full facial reconstructive surgery of Connie Culp took 22 hours. 22 hours of hard work which resulted in successful face transplant. According to doctors, new facial nerves she got will slowly catch on and Connie will soon be able to show emotions. She’s already able to taste and smell again and can drink from the cup. Not to mention that she can breathe through her new nose and doesn’t need a hole in her throat anymore. But as Connie herself says, the biggest relief is that facial pain she was experiencing is almost gone.

After few months on her own, Connie Culp showed her face to the public. You can see the difference from the photos provided. It’s truly an achievement. Below is the video from the press conference with Connie Culp. It’s an inspiring video to watch and makes you appreciate what you have:

And a gallery of photos showing Connie Culp before and after the face transplant surgery.

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MMA Fighter Justin Levens and his wife Sarah McLean-Levens were found dead earlier today in their home in Luguna Niguel, Southern California in what looked like murder-suicide. Sheriff’s spokes bitches confirmed to the Associated Press that the department is investigating the case but so far all the clues lead them to believe that it was in fact a murder-suicide. That’s pretty fucked up if that’s the case.

Roids are evil, get it? It made Chris Benoit commit Murder-Suicide one and a half year ago in a highly publicized case and now it looks like another fighter (this time around a real fighter, not a wrestling joker) Justin Levens may have committed the same and took his wife Sarah McLean-Levens to the land of eternal win with him. Mother of Sarah McLean-Levens alarmed the police after she’d found the couple with gun shot wounds.

Justin Levens is a MMA veteran who known for his UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) and WEC (World Extreme Cagefighting) fights. He was scheduled for the first Affliction card earlier this year, but the event was postponed and Justin Levens was later found positive for Oxymorphone. He was suspended from professional fighting till Jan. 15, 2009.

Justin Levens was 28 year old (born in Philadelphia on April 18, 1980), his wife Sarah McLean-Levens was 25. Damn

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Weird story from Boston – 61 year old Christian Mogensen announced on his website the day he and his wife Sharon Glassman are going to die. Boston police now confirmed that they’ve found them both dead in their apartment in what appears to have been a Murder Suicide carried out by Christian Mogensen himself. Motive? Who knows?

Christian Mogensen ran his own computer business out of their apartment in Emerson place. His website was recently updated with a picture as seen above, where he’s announcing his and his wife death. The announcement was made on black background and contained an old wedding photograph of Christian Mogensen and Sharon Glassman in sepia tones. The photograph is dated on Dec. 24, 1996 – they got married on Christmas Eve. The day of their death was set to September 18, 2008 – he could have picked a better day. September 28 sucks. There’s no cool significance to it…

The police also confirmed that the couple was not going through divorce nor were they able to find any other motives that could explain the homicidal tendencies of Christian Mogensen.

Law enforcement official released the details which state that Christian Mogensen made a 911 call telling the dispatcher that he just killed his wife and was gonna kill himself as soon as the police comes in.

SWAT team was dispatched. Their statement reads:

“When officers entered, they first observed a white female lying unresponsive. Officers also observed an unresponsive white male in the apartment. Both victims were pronounced dead on scene.”

LOLa at their language. “Unresponsive white female” – just call it what it is. There’s a dead woman in blood on the floor and a dead man with face missing and a gun in his hand… Unresponsive white woman

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