This 56-year-old stroke victim, who herself was a monster after an illness, was able to smile normally for the first time in two and a half years. In a unique surgery restored her nerves of the face.
A resident of the state of Washington Jarmila Hayes after stroke, which deprived of mobility half of the body, felt herself a monster. The fact that one half of the woman’s face was moving normally, and the second “Amoreiras” and fell as the muscles no longer worked. As a result, on the face of this rather attractive woman had a strange twisted smile, putaway very Jarmila. In the end, she almost ceased to leave the house to catch his hostile stare of the strangers on the street.
But that all changed after March of this year a group of plastic surgeons decided to conduct unique in its complexity the surgery, which lasted 9 hours. Surgeons have set a goal to restore the mobility of the person of the patient, what they wanted to resurrect her nerves. But how to do it with the nerves that result of a stroke completely atrophied if it is impossible to revive them? Surgery solved this problem through transplantation of existing nerves from the right side of the face to the left. By itself, the operation was represented by a bold challenge to nature, but surgery to deal with it.
“I miss your face & smile, – says the patient. – Because of the stroke I have all the time remained the same facial expression, which quite frightened me, I looked like a monster. It’s a miracle that I learned to smile again. Of course, it did not happen immediately after surgery, it took me several months to get the person under control. But now I’m alive, go out to restaurants, walking my dog in the past month vacationing in Hawaii and swam in the ocean, I even got married. Never would I do it if my face remained the same”. (READ MORE)