After surgery, I studiously avoided looking at myself in a mirror. In my mind my face was still whole. This was not the case, and one day in the hospital Dr. David J. Reisberg came to visit. He was a professor of craniofacial medicine at the University of Illinois in Chicago, and a specialist in facial reconstruction.
I suggested a false beard which I would wear suspended from hooks over my ears, like a kid playing Abe Lincoln in the school play. "It's not like I think I'm fooling anyone," I said.
Good doctor Reisberg smiled and took some photographs. Like all of the professionals I was to meet who worked with disfigurement, he had a warm bedside manner and discussed my problems in a matter-of-fact way. He had seen worse. Much could be done. When I was on my feet he had me come to his clinic at the...
I suggested a false beard which I would wear suspended from hooks over my ears, like a kid playing Abe Lincoln in the school play. "It's not like I think I'm fooling anyone," I said.
Good doctor Reisberg smiled and took some photographs. Like all of the professionals I was to meet who worked with disfigurement, he had a warm bedside manner and discussed my problems in a matter-of-fact way. He had seen worse. Much could be done. When I was on my feet he had me come to his clinic at the...
- 1/26/2011
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
Roger Ebert's new film-review show debuts this weekend, and when it does, you'll see a different Ebert than the one you've seen in the recent past.
Ebert writes on his blog that he's been fitted with a prosthesis for his chin and neck -- he lost his lower jaw in a battle with cancer -- which he'll wear when he appears on camera in "Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies," which premieres this weekend on PBS stations (check your local listings for times). The prosthesis is the work of Dr. David Reisberg at the University of Illinois-Chicago, along with his colleague David Rotter and Julie Jordan Brown, a Milwaukee anaplastologist.
"I will wear the prosthesis on the new television show," Ebert writes. "That's not to fool anyone, because my appearance is widely known. It will be used in a medium shot of me working in my office, and will...
Ebert writes on his blog that he's been fitted with a prosthesis for his chin and neck -- he lost his lower jaw in a battle with cancer -- which he'll wear when he appears on camera in "Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies," which premieres this weekend on PBS stations (check your local listings for times). The prosthesis is the work of Dr. David Reisberg at the University of Illinois-Chicago, along with his colleague David Rotter and Julie Jordan Brown, a Milwaukee anaplastologist.
"I will wear the prosthesis on the new television show," Ebert writes. "That's not to fool anyone, because my appearance is widely known. It will be used in a medium shot of me working in my office, and will...
- 1/21/2011
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Would I want to start over with a new face? Would I like to eat, drink, talk, and look like a normal person? Even if that person were a stranger? In theory, this is now possible. I've been thinking of it, on and off, for the last two weeks. I regularly visit several science websites, and from New Scientist, the invaluable British magazine, I happened upon this story:
"Yesterday it emerged that a farmer in his thirties in Spain who accidentally shot away the lower part of his face has become the first person to receive an entire face transplant. According to yesterday's press conference, he is
already recovering well. Previously, he could only breathe and eat through tubes. Now he is expected to begin relearning how to talk, eat, smile and laugh within weeks." This didn't involve simply placing a mask of skin over what was there, which is...
"Yesterday it emerged that a farmer in his thirties in Spain who accidentally shot away the lower part of his face has become the first person to receive an entire face transplant. According to yesterday's press conference, he is
already recovering well. Previously, he could only breathe and eat through tubes. Now he is expected to begin relearning how to talk, eat, smile and laugh within weeks." This didn't involve simply placing a mask of skin over what was there, which is...
- 5/7/2010
- by Roger Ebert
- blogs.suntimes.com/ebert
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