[tabi] Re: New Look: Blind Mom Gets Prosthetic Face
- From: "Lynn Evans" <evans-lynn@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2010 15:24:31 -0400
The short of it is she was a straight A student in high school but left home
to move in with her boy friend. At a party one night one or teen got out a
shotgun the gun went off and blew off her mouth, nose and eyes. A top
reconstructive surgeon and the team did the best job they could but left a
bowl shaped indention in her face. She wore a black mask in public to cover the
area.
She was able to finish high school and rehab for her blindness and met her
future husband at the rehab center. They married and started a family. The
surgeon always remembers her and later formed a team to make her the prosthesis
and that is the rest of the story.
----- Original Message -----
From: Darla J. Rogers
To: tabi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, July 23, 2010 2:09 PM
Subject: [tabi] Re: New Look: Blind Mom Gets Prosthetic Face
AI wonder why her face was so damaged; certainly, this procedure does not
appear to have been just cosmetic. People who are sighted judge with their
eyes which is why I made sure my clients understood good grooming and hygiene.
Darla
Darla J. Rogers
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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere--Martin LutherKing, Jr.
----- Original Message -----
From: Lynn Evans
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Sent: Friday, July 16, 2010 4:13 PM
Subject: [tabi] New Look: Blind Mom Gets Prosthetic Face
I wanted to share this because I thought it was a wonderful story.
Prosthetic Face, Complete with Mascara
The doctors also ensured Steltz's face came complete with makeup: They
baked eyeliner, eye shadow and mascara directly into the mask and poked
eyelashes into the silicon with tweezers. They took care to ensure the results
were as real as possible.
Getting the eyes down was of monumental importance, Over said.
"If you drew a clock around the colored portion of the eye ... is that
little glint in the same position in the left as it is on the right?" he asked.
Steltz's procedure cost nearly $80,000, according to Dierks, but her health
insurance refused to cover the cost, saying hers was an aesthetic procedure.
"This is certainly not a veneer on a front tooth," Over said. "It's just as
much of a medical necessity as an arm or a leg."
http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/chrissy-steltz-blinded-gunshot-prosthetic-face/story?id=11162243&page=3
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