Face Transplant Story: How a Transplanted Face Transformed Katie Stubblefield’s

[iolaire]

Good story:
How a Transplanted Face Transformed Katie Stubblefield’s Life
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/09/face-transplant-katie-stubblefield-story-identity-surgery

now at:
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/09/face-transplant-recipients-profiles/

I'll try to ask my nephrologist if the kidney transplant precludes me from donating other body parts.

[MooseMom]

That link did not work for me, but I have a subscription to National Geographic so should be able to read it in the upcoming issue.  I did Google her, and this is quite an amazing story.  Thank you for posting about it.

Let us know what your neph says about transplant patients becoming donors.  I'd always assumed that no, we wouldn't be allowed to donate because of the drugs we've had to take.  I had always been a regular blood donor, but when I had to start taking just one bp med some years after I was diagnosed with fsgs, the blood bank told me I was no longer acceptable because of that reason.  I remember being so upset.  But that was a long time ago, so maybe the rules have changed.

[iolaire]

sorry URL is now: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/09/face-transplant-recipients-profiles/

[iolaire]

And now the oldest patient and first full face transplant on an African American.
Doctors perform first full face transplant on black man
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/10/27/doctors-perform-first-full-face-transplant-black-patient/2478719001/

[Simon Dog]

A real tragedy is when the face is rejected: https://bangordailynews.com/2019/09/23/news/new-england/nh-woman-who-received-face-transplant-after-domestic-violence-attack-now-needs-a-new-donor/

No matter how bad dialysis or transplant is, all you have to do is look at someone like this and realize how much worse things could be.