The Woman Who Lost Her Face also features never-before-seen images of Charla and insight from the NBC News producers and reporters who covered the story. This in-depth account takes you inside the operating rooms and hospitals where medical history was made and includes new details about the chimpanzee who mauled Charla to the brink of death and the woman who raised the animal as her son. thats left one woman in critical condition. NBC News and Meredith Vieira have been covering the story since the life-altering attack, documenting Charla’s unfaltering spirit and the remarkable surgeries that not only kept her alive, but gave her a new face and, ultimately, restored her very humanity.įeaturing candid and exclusive interviews with Charla, her family, her doctors and the chimpanzee’s owner, The Woman Who Lost Her Face is an intimate look at Charla’s life before and after the attack. 'CBS News RAW:' Chilling 911 tapes have been released in connection with a chimpanzee attack in Conn. (HARTFORD, Conn.) The Connecticut woman who underwent a face transplant five years ago after being attacked by a chimpanzee is back in a Boston hospital after doctors discovered her body is rejecting tissue.
By her own doctors’ accounts, she never should have survived her injuries.Ĭharla’s story is one of incredible strength, fierce determination and cutting-edge medicine. Doctors says Charla Nash's body may be rejecting the transplant after unusual patches appeared on her face. Viciously attacked by a chimpanzee in 2009, Charla Nash was left so severely disfigured that she no longer had eyes to see the world, hands to feel it or even a face to show it. A woman who underwent a full-face transplant in 2011 after she was mauled by a chimpanzee was back in the hospital on Wednesday after her body began to reject the transplanted tissue in her. 16, 2009, Charla Nash visited the home of her longtime friend, Sandra Herold, like she’d done many times before.
MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images Charla Nash’s new face, post-surgery.
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“Through Charla I have learned that the will to survive is a powerful force and that human courage knows no bounds.” -NBC’s Meredith Vieira Charla Nash barely survived a vicious attack by Travis the Chimp in Connecticut on February 16, 2009, losing one eye, both eyelids, her nose, lips, and hands. Updated ApTravis the chimp was a beloved animal actor and a local fixture in his Connecticut town until he viciously attacked his owner’s friend Charla Nash one day in 2009 and nearly ripped her face off. In February 2009, Charla Nash was viciously mauled by Travis the Chimp, leaving her clinging to life and in need of a full face transplant. Undated photos provided Thursday by Brigham and Women’s Hospital show chimpanzee attack victim Charla Nash after the attack and post-face transplant surgery.
This enhanced eBook edition includes a video introduction from Meredith Vieira and more than 45 minutes of video interviews from NBC News. A 200-pound pet chimpanzee in Stamford, Connecticut, viciously mauled a woman he had known for years, leaving her critically injured with much of her face torn away, the authorities said.
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