A 'wonderful gift': Lye attack victim reveals new face after transplant surgery
Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 20:00
in Health & Medicine
Almost three months after a undergoing a full face transplant, Carmen Blandin Tarleton, the 44-year-old Vermont registered nurse horribly disfigured when her estranged husband squirted industrial strength lye all over her body, stroked her new chin with her hand, calling the surgery, a "wonderful gift." Tarleton revealed her new face – reconstructed in a 15-hour operation that transplanted a donor...