Her eyes had to be removed after the attack. Survivor Charla Nash Opens up regarding her face transplant (YT video) They are many more accounts and links around the attack, the Chimps 'owner' and her reaction and response, and opinions one way or the other.
She could eat, smell, express her emotion and feel the face." When the transplanted tissue heals and nerves regrow – a process that will take at least nine months and possibly longer – Pomahac says Nash "should control the face well. "We're optimistic that should Charla choose in the future, we could transplant the hands again, should a suitable donor be identified."ĭespite the loss of the hands, Pomahac says, "I consider it still a success" because Nash has a very good chance of regaining "a very functional face." "After several days of doing everything possible to retain the hands, it was clear that they were not thriving," Pomahac said at a press conference. That compromised blood flow to the transplanted hands, so surgeons had to remove them. But after the operation Nash suffered a blood infection that caused her blood pressure to crash. In a 20-hour operation, surgeon Bohdan Pomahac says the team transplanted hands from the same donor. 13, "executors have failed and refused to provide information necessary to complete the settlement.Charla Nash: Transplant animation from BWH Public Affairs on Vimeo. 13 to finalize it.Ī lawyer for Michael Nash, Matthew Newman, said in a court document filed Tuesday that since Nov. It is not nice."Ĭourt documents obtained by the AP on Thursday show the settlement between Nash's family and Herold's estate was approved by the Stamford Probate Court on Sept. "And I also pray that I hope this never happens to anyone else again. The 14-year-old chimpanzee latched onto Nashs face and tore it apart. "I hope and pray that the commissioner will give me my day in court," Charla Nash told reporters following a hearing in August before Claims Commissioner J. But when Charla Nash, 55, a friend of Herolds, visited on Monday afternoon, Travis suddenly lashed out at her. Nash wants to sue the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, which she holds responsible for not seizing the animal before the attack despite a state biologist's warning it was dangerous. The state is immune from lawsuits unless they're allowed by the claims commissioner. Nash' family is also trying to sue the state for $150 million, but is awaiting permission from the state claims commissioner. Travis had previously bitten another woman's hand and tried to drag her into a car in 1996, bit a man's thumb two years later and escaped from her home and roamed downtown Stamford for hours being captured in 2003, according to the lawsuit. Woman's body found stuffed in plastic bin near NYC community garden The lawsuit alleged Herold knew Travis was dangerous, but failed to confine him to a secure area and allowed him to roam her property. But the animal went berserk and ripped off Nash's nose, lips, eyelids and hands before being shot to death by a police officer.Ī month after the mauling, Nash's family sued Herold for alleged negligence and recklessness. She had gone to Herold's home on the day of the attack to help lure Herold's 200-pound chimpanzee, Travis, back into her home. Lawyers in the case and Nash family members didn't immediately return messages Thursday.Ĭharla Nash, 57, now lives in a nursing home outside of Boston. PICTURES: Chimp Victim Charla Nash (Warning Graphic Images) Not anymore. In 2009, 50-year-old Charla was violently attacked by her friends pet chimpanzee, Travis - who weighed over 200-pounds. Lawyers for Nash's twin brother, Michael Nash, accused executors of Herold's estate this week of failing to provide information needed to complete the settlement, according to a court document obtained by the AP. (ABC News) Photo: Charla Nash about to reveal her new, disfigured face on Oprah.
Nash was blinded, lost both hands and underwent a face transplant after being mauled outside Herold's home in Stamford in February 2009. Lawyers for a woman mauled by a chimpanzee in Connecticut have agreed to settle a lawsuit against the estate of the primate's now-dead owner, but there's a dispute over the final details, according to court documents obtained Thursday by The Associated Press.Īttack victim Charla Nash's brother filed the lawsuit on her behalf in 2009 in state Superior Court seeking $50 million in damages from chimp owner Sandra Herold, who died in 2010.
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