An article I read last week, (sorry I don’t have the chance to look it up right now) said the dog attacked her while she was unconscious following a drug overdose. The article did not say, however, whether it was an accidental overdose on scrip pills. suicide, or street drugs.
Perhaps she was convulsing and the dog freaked.
I read the bit that said she was unconcious due to a drug overdose, and that is why I wondered if the dog might have been hungry. (Following the idea that who knows how long she had lain that way before the dog attacked.) Dog’s thoughts: “Hmm, it’s past my dinner time, ooo that nose looks tasty!” chomp
I read in one of the articles that she is not wearing makeup, because of the infection possibilities.
From the BBC article:
Apparently, the donee did commit suicide.
http://www.sundaytimes.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,7034,17967407^950,00.html
This whole thing is like a circus of the damned. Since when do Labradors maul people? They’re one of the most family-friendly dogs around. If you leave a Lab with a small child, the biggest thing you have to worry about is whether the child will hurt the Lab. Was the dog rabid? Mistreated? Did it suffer a personality-changing head injury? I don’t get it.
And she’s passed out such that she can’t defend herself at all? (No wounds to hands or arms, just face.)
And then she gets a transplant from a woman who committed suicide?
And then she starts smoking?
For such a controversial procedure to begin with, why would the treatment team select this case for a first-of-its-kind test? I know it doesn’t take anything away from the science or the technology of it. It is amazing. This woman’s quality of life is greatly improved. Hopefully, it will pave the way for other procedures. But surely the circumstances of the case (particularly the post-op smoking - and to be fair the team couldn’t predict that) will affect public opinion and funding for future procedures.
Why should the team care? They’re doctors and they’re supposed to treat people in need.
Apparently the Ethics Comittee in the UK has ok’d the procedure for 9 patients, according to the consultant they interviewed on radio 5 Live yesterday, they make stringent efforts to match skin tone and face size and shape, lets just hope enough doners are made available to do this, the only fly in the pie was pointed out by a poll asking the public what they think, which was “what if you see the face of your deceased loved one walking down the street on somone else” the consultant said the actual face would be a hybrid of the doners face and the structure of the patient, so the features would not be identical to the deceased.
it would still be bloody creepy in my view…
still, some of these poor people never leave their homes, lets hope they get therapy as well as an op for their new lives.
Am I going to hell if I think that she was a bit of a dog before (no pun intended), and is now kind of cute, if you look past the scars and the drool? Yes, I probably am.
The donor definitely had better skin, though.
I mean, before this whole thing happened, not before the operation, I hasten to add.
All dogs have the potential to harm humans.
One possibility (and there is no way to confirm this) is that the dog was licking her face in an attempt to get a reaction out of her, and when he didn’t, he got progressively rougher and rougher. Maybe when he finally drew blood the carnivore in him kicked in - there have been many instances of dogs snacking on their dead owners. I mean, they’re animals - they don’t have human ethics and they aren’t smart like us.
If she’s in a drug-induced state of unconciousness, yes, she may be in a state where she can’t/doesn’t defend herself.
Not entirely unheard of - in fact, the same donor also supplied other organs to other people. If there is no other disqualifying factor (such as HIV infection) there is no reason NOT to use a suicide for organ donation.
She smoked before the mauling. In fact, she said that after she woke up from her drugged stupor she tried to light one up and couldn’t figure out why she couldn’t hold it in her lips. Then she looked in a mirror. No doubt this was followed by a lot of screaming.
It might be she was one of several candidates and it just happened she was the first match with a suitable donor.
I agree, she is not an ideal subject. However, she is a suffering human being and this does have the potential to help her. Perhaps they thought it would be unethical NOT to proceed once they had a matching donor, even if she wasn’t a perfect candidate.
I heard this on NPR this morning… then came here and read this post and the link.
According to the article…
And on NPR, according to Miss Dinoire, she’d never quit.
Perhaps I shouldn’t, but I found this amusing.
I’m sure there are a multitude of beautiful sentences here struggling to get out. You lost me somewhere around pie, though.
I would think suicides would be the best face donors, because on average they’re probably the youngest and have the prettiest faces at time of death.
The speculation I read was that she was stumbling around in a stupor after taking the pills, and stepped or fell onto the dog, which then attacked her.
Depends on how they die - a shotgun blast to the head can really mess up your looks…
I read in “Pais Match” that she was suffering from “family/personal” problems and took some sort of anti-depressant/tranquilizer. The theory is that she lost consciousness and the dog injured her while trying to wake her from her stupour.
Psshh. I need that joke like I need a hole in the head.
I’ll save you a seat in Hell. 
It was a dog attack. Her dog was a labrador cross.
But I can’t figure out what would make her dog eat her face while she was unconscious. Especially a gentle dog like a labrador. That just doesn’t make sense to me.
Are there any pictures of her before the mauling? How closely does she resemble her pre-attack self?
I’ve not see pre-attack pics but she has said that she looks nothing now like she did before (although she’s clearly pleased with the way she looks now).
The Wikipedia article has (at the time I write, at least) before and after photos. There is not much out there about the supposed donor, Maryline St. Aubert.
Interesting. I’d been wondering what she looked like before. Thanks for the link.