Full face transplant recipient Mitch Hunter is now ready for his close up
- 8 years ago
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA— Mitch Hunter of Indianapolis, Indiana was a passenger riding with friends in 2001, when their car slammed into a utility pole. While successfully saving one of his companions by pushing away a live wire, the high-voltage cable zapped Hunter with 10,000 volts of electricity for roughly five minutes.
Mitch flatlined in the ambulance twice. The accident caused such severe burns; Mitch Hunter lost a leg, and his face. Despite many surgeries, his face remained horrifically scarred.
This former U.S. Army private once thought he'd never be able to walk down the street again without scaring children. But in April 2011, Hunter became the second person in the United States, and only the third in the entire world, to receive a full face transplant.
After five years of slow progress, this week Hunter revealed himself to the world in an interview with a CNN affiliate and says he believes his ordeal made him stronger.
Hunter says he's now just another face in the crowd, which for him is awesome. He drives to work, goes shopping, catches a movie … with no one ever knowing he once literally did not have a face.
Hunter received a new nose, facial animation muscles and nerves, eyelids and the rest of a face from a donor in a 14-hour procedure in 2011. Mitch can now feel hot, cold, pain, being tickled, and even the sensation of rubbing his beard — and in what must be one of the best rediscoveries — he can now feel being kissed on his face.
Mitch and his girlfriend Katarina, held off on having kids until after the ground-breaking surgery. They now are proud parents of a little boy named Clayton.
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Mitch flatlined in the ambulance twice. The accident caused such severe burns; Mitch Hunter lost a leg, and his face. Despite many surgeries, his face remained horrifically scarred.
This former U.S. Army private once thought he'd never be able to walk down the street again without scaring children. But in April 2011, Hunter became the second person in the United States, and only the third in the entire world, to receive a full face transplant.
After five years of slow progress, this week Hunter revealed himself to the world in an interview with a CNN affiliate and says he believes his ordeal made him stronger.
Hunter says he's now just another face in the crowd, which for him is awesome. He drives to work, goes shopping, catches a movie … with no one ever knowing he once literally did not have a face.
Hunter received a new nose, facial animation muscles and nerves, eyelids and the rest of a face from a donor in a 14-hour procedure in 2011. Mitch can now feel hot, cold, pain, being tickled, and even the sensation of rubbing his beard — and in what must be one of the best rediscoveries — he can now feel being kissed on his face.
Mitch and his girlfriend Katarina, held off on having kids until after the ground-breaking surgery. They now are proud parents of a little boy named Clayton.
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