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James Maki, a 59-year-old who became the nation’s second face transplant recipient in April to repair injuries from a horrific subway accident, left Brigham and Women’s Hospital on Thursday (May 21), thankful for what he called a “new chance to build my life.”
Jun 18, 2009 · Jim Maki: New Life With a New Face - YouTube. ABC News. 15.6M subscribers. Subscribed. 34. 9.1K views 14 years ago. A face transplant recipient describes how the surgery changed his life....
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Just a few years later, Jim would experience a glimmer of hope when he saw Dr. Pomahac talking about face transplant surgery on a local television news show. "I remember sitting there and saying, 'Boy, I wish I could be eligible for that.'" As it turns out, Dr. Pomahac already was thinking of Jim. Jim went through a battery of tests during the cour...
The following day, April 9, 2009, a Brigham and Women's Hospital surgical team, lead by Dr. Pomahac, performed the first partial face transplant in New England – and only the second such procedure to be performed in the United States and the seventh in the world. The multidisciplinary team of more than 35 specialists, including surgeons, nurses, an...
A few days after the surgery, Jim and his daughter took a look at his new face. "I can see myself in this picture," said Jim, while looking at his new appearance in a mirror. "It's amazing," said his daughter, Jessica. "It surprisingly looks more like him than I thought it would. It's still him."
Functionally, significant benefits came very quickly for Jim. The surgery immediately restored much of his ability to breathe, speak and swallow. Instead of getting nutrition from a tube inserted in his stomach, now everything he eats comes on a plate. And, as his nurses can attest, his taste buds are fully operational. "I'm real picky on what I ea...
Ironically, Jim will tell you that this traumatic injury actually served to change the course of his life for the better. "Having this accident was really a blessing to me," he said. Following his military service in Vietnam, life had been a continuous struggle. When describing his existence after Vietnam and before the accident, a period of more t...
Jim is pleased with the results thus far, but he also looks forward to the days to come. "I look at this as a work in progress," he explained. "What you see now – this isn't the final result. These scars are going to clear up. The swelling is going to go down." "I have a lot of faith in all the people on the surgical team," said Jim. "I think they'...
May 2, 2013 · James Maki destroyed the entire core of his face when he fell onto the electrified third rail at a Boston subway station on June 30, 2005. He also...
May 22, 2009 · Since the subway accident that left him horribly burned, adults had screamed when seeing James Perry Maki's disfigured and noseless face. Children would recoil.
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May 21, 2009 · When James Maki burned off most of his face after falling onto an electrified third rail in a Boston subway station four years ago, he was left so deformed he didn't want to be seen in public....
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May 21, 2009 · Maki, 59, remains at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston recovering, but is scheduled to go home in about a week. He said he'd like to finish his degree and maybe work with fellow Vietnam ...
