Post by Bonobo on Jan 10, 2019 21:50:12 GMT 1
Doc: Face transplant patient making good progress
The Associated Press
WARSAW, Poland — A surgeon who operated on Poland's first face transplant patient says the man is already practicing swallowing and making sounds.
The 33-year-old man received a skin-and-bone transplant on May 15, three weeks after losing his nose, upper jaw and cheeks in a workplace accident. Doctors say it was the world's fastest time frame for such an operation.
Dr. Maciej Grajek told The Associated Press on Monday the man is practicing to swallow liquids, has gotten out of bed a few times this weekend, communicates through writing and can make sounds when his tracheotomy tube - which helps him breathe - is closed for a moment. Grajek called that "very good progress."
The patient remains in isolation to guard against infections.
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I once posted it as a success of Polish medicine. However, it turned out the injury was too serious to heal completely.
Grzegorz Galaśiński who had a face transplant isn`t happy today. He experiences various problems after the operation which was too complex to be really successful. He complains he has been left on his own by the system. He can`t work and his everyday life is a torture. He asks for donations.