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2006/2/25

Chain Smoking Isabelle Dinoire Update

@ 01:08 PM (28 months, 22 days ago)

The French National Health Insurance Plan is seeking a refund of all face transplant expenses from Ms. Dinoire.  Prior to the surgery she signed a contract vowing to lead a healthy life if the Plan financed the radical medical procedure.  According to the Plan spokesperson should the payment not be received from Ms. Dinoire by March 1, 2006, the face will be taken away and replaced by THIS ONE

Australia's Sunday Times visits Isabelle Dinoire, the 38-year-old French woman who received the world's first face transplant two months ago.

Facetransplant-1Miss Dinoire remains reluctant to visit shopping centres and other busy places. But under the close supervision of a team of psychiatrists, she is gaining the confidence to return to society...

She says she is in a positive mood – though she is chain-smoking again – and is making plans to study computers and accounting at college, with a view to opening a baby-clothes shop...

Another of her surgeons, Bernard Devauchelle, said: "Her facial expressiveness is slowly returning and she is talking quite clearly, but has some problems with the letters P and B, which require the lips.

"She certainly does not look like the living dead. She's eating and drinking without dribbling.

"Psychologically, she has totally accepted her new face. Her return to smoking is not the best thing. But that's what she wants to do – we can't stop her."

There is still a risk that Miss Dinoire's body will reject the new face and for the rest of her life she will have to take preventative drugs, which cause an increased risk of cancer and kidney disease.


 

Comment(s) »

  1. I wonder why the doctors picked this woman, who is obviously a little nutty, to perform this surgery on?

    You think she'd be so excited to have a normal face that she'd kick the habit...:roll:

    I wonder if her lovely daughter is still ashamed to be seen in public with her?

    Comment by C-Mom— 2006/02/26 @ 09:31 AM — (Reply)

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