Carmen Blandin Tarleton is just the second person in the world to undergo the procedure again.
Tarleton was burned on over 80 percent of her body and blinded in 2007 when her estranged husband, Herbert Rodgers, beat her with a baseball bat and doused her body with lye because he thought she was seeing another man. In 2009, Rodgers pleaded guilty to maiming Tarleton in exchange for a prison sentence of at least 30 years. He died in prison in 2017.
The first transplant transformed Tarleton's life. She got off strong medications for her pain, took up the piano and was able to travel and give inspirational speeches — often talking of how she had forgiven Rodgers. She also became close friends with the daughter of her first donor, a 56-year-old woman who died of a stroke. She also got a synthetic cornea in her left eye.
But by last year, the face was failing. She began experiencing scarring, tightness and pain because of a loss of blood flow to her face. Black patches appeared on her face. Her eyelids contracted and her lips began disappearing, making it difficult to eat. She was mostly housebound and resumed taking strong pain medications.She requested in October to be put the hospital's list for a second face.
Now that she has her new face, Tarleton is hoping to once again travel and give inspirational speeches — those will be on Zoom until there is a“This face looks very different than my first one and I can appreciate that. It's a different person,” she said, adding the new face allows her to “fit in a little better, don't get stared at so easily.”
“It is strange. I am not going to lie,” she added. “I'll have to get used to it. My sister will have to get used to it. It takes a while for my friends and family to get used to what I look like now.”
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