Face Transplant Patient Isabelle Dinoire Tried to Kill Herself Before, Continues with Destructive Behaviour After New Lease on Life
Isabelle Dinoire, the woman being hailed as the world’s first face transplant patient, not only suffered her initial injuries as a result of her own bid to take her life by overdosing, but even while thanking the donor’s next of kin following the ground-breaking surgery, she continues with behaviour she knows can seriously and negatively affect her future. Even though doctors have warned her that smoking can lead to complications following her landmark surgery, “In hiding, she smokes cigarette after cigarette,” said her doctor.
Bonus irony: In a maze of contradictions, Isabelle Dinoire has said both that now people “look at me normally” and “I have a face like everyone else,” and yet that she suffers stares when she goes out. Well, duh. But in perhaps the ultimate irony in this story, Dinoire has said that “I expect to resume a normal life.”
Resume a normal life? You overdosed to “help you forget” your life; how normal is that?
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February 9th, 2006 at 8:57 pm
Geez, you give someone a miracle and they spit it back into the collective doctors faces, especially the immunologist who are the real transplant unsung heroes, as well as the donor’s friends and family. Keep up the smoking babe, and your nice new face will fall off, and won’t *that* be pretty. Unfortunately, you’ll try to make money off that also (”My so-called life, part 3; I whine my transplant failed) I was more sympathetic when I thought she was mauled horribly by a dog. Somehow, I missed the part about it being her own dog trying to wake her up when she was trying to OD. Please don’t tell me the dog was put down. Hopefully, someone who appreciated its loyalty and life saving instincts adopted it.
February 10th, 2006 at 7:25 am
Some people just don’t know when to stop an appreciate all they have been given….
February 10th, 2006 at 11:22 am
Have you ever been so profoundly depressed that you considered taking your own life? Have you ever been so hopeless that you actively made plans, and aquired the means necessary, to take your own life?
Please try to dump the santimonious attitude. You have no idea what that woman has, or has not, endured throughout her life; nor with what coping mechanisms she has available.
Just try to imagine the amount of depression required where ending your life becomes more desirable than continuing your life. Hopefully, you might develope some compassion.
February 10th, 2006 at 11:30 am
Waking up without a “normal” face would be pretty stressful. Even more so if you were already suicidal to begin with. Putting yourself in EXACTLY THOSES CIRCUMSTANCES, how would you then react?
March 6th, 2006 at 10:26 am
Since when does a family pet try to wake up it’s owner by biting off half their face?
April 14th, 2006 at 8:34 pm
Healthy, sane labradors do not have a history of mauling their owners; considering the dog wasn’t reported otherwise, then it’s probably safe to say the dog bit her for a reason. Now it’s pretty obvious that Dinoire did try to kill herself (the hospital denies it because the opportunity to proceed on this groundbreaking proceedure was too good to pass up for any reason — including just happening to “not notice” that the donor tried to hang herself). I can imagine that anyone who tries to wake up a person over-dosed on sleeping pills isn’t going to calmly give them a friendly shake, rather they are probably going to be hysterical. The dog probably tried to wake up Dinoire in a normal dog-to-owner fashion but she obviously didn’t wake up. A dog doesn’t have hands so it can’t wake a person by shaking them vigorously, so it probably frantically tried to wake her with what it has — it’s mouth. I can understand that this woman was severly depressed and everything, but letting her loyal dog be killed so that she can have a new face she doesn’t deserve (picking up smoking when she is told it could cause her to reject the face should be a good indicator) is a blatant disregard for her dog’s life. Now that’s pretty low. But everyone’s right, it’s COMPLETELY acceptable because she was suicidal.