Showing posts with label face transplant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label face transplant. Show all posts

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Dallas from Ft. Worth gets married...

Last fall at the State Fair of Texas, I had the good fortune to meet and draw this young man, Dallas Wiens:
He's the recipient of the first full facial transplant in the US and came to the fair with his fiancé, Jamie, a fellow patient he'd met in a support group at the hospital. They were the sweetest couple, and told me they were getting married in the spring. Well, they just did, so I thought I'd share their happy news!
While I was drawing him, Dallas explained that his outlook on life was "you could be bitter, or get better." He chose to get better. :-) I'm so happy for them.