We can give her some sort of hope in a life that has been otherwise very dark for the past co! uple of years for her." "I think she's greatly hopeful that this will come one day and will improve her life. "She's doing very well, psychologically amazingly well considering the gravity of her injuries," Pomahac said. The surgery will "profoundly" change Nash's life, restoring her sense of smell and touch, making it easier for her to eat and allowing her more independence, Pomahac said, adding that Nash is excited about it. The Cleveland Clinic, which in 2008 performed the nation's first partial face transplant but has not done hand transplants, said last year that Nash, 57, would not be a candidate for a face and hand transplant, citing the complexity of her injuries. Time is of the essence when recovering facial tissue from a donor, so the donor must be located within a four-hour travel radius of Brigham and Women's Hospital, hospital officials said.
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The donor can be as much as 20 years younger or up to 10 years older than the recipient and must have the same blood type an d similar skin color and texture. "I feel comfortable and confident that we can certainly perform it." "We feel that it's a perfectly feasible operation," Pomahac told The Associated Press on Thursday. Bohdan Pomahac, who will lead the team and performed the earlier face transplant, said he has a larger team and designed the operation differently. The simultaneous surgery has been done only once before, in France in 2009, and that patient later died. Depending on donors, the hospital could wind up performing the first simultaneous hand and face transplant in the country. The Department of Defense would pay for the surgery through a contract it gave the hospital in 2009 to cover the cost of face transplants for veterans and some civilians, hospital officials said. It ripped off Nash's hands, nose, lips and eyelids.
The 200-pound pet chimpanzee, named Travis, went berserk in February 2009 after its own! er asked Nash to help lure it back into her house in Stamford, one of the state's biggest cities. "She keeps her spirits up," one of her attorneys, Charles Willinger, said Wednesday.
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The hospital, which performed the nation's first full face transplant earlier this month on a Texas construction worker injured in a power line accident, is working with the New England Organ Bank to find donors who match Nash's tissue requirements.
Nash, who's at a rehabilitation center near Boston, last month was deemed eligible for the surgery at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston after passing numerous pre-operative tests and evaluations. She's eagerly awaiting a donor who would enable her to undergo face and hand transplant surgery. STAMFORD - Charla Nash, a Stamford woman mauled by a chimpanzee two years ago, can't see, touch or smell and struggles to eat through a straw.
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