Healing the Monkey Wounds

Remember this story from 2009? Charla Nash had her freakin’ face and hands torn off by a rampaging Chimpanzee. Cops had to show up and kill the animal but Charla was left with debilitating and disfiguring injuries. She’s had a face transplant and she is slowing regaining a human appearance again.

From the DailyMail here:

Despite losing her eyesight, lips, nose, and hands in a vicious attack by a rampaging chimpanzee in 2009, face transplant recipient Charla Nash says she feels at home in her new skin.
The brave 58-year-old woman, who nearly died in the horrific mauling, told the Hartford Courant exclusively that she feels no different than she did before the attack.

‘I just feel like it’s my face,’ she said. ‘It’s just not working real good.’

Ms Nash, a single mother from Stamford, Connecticut, told the Courant that she’s regaining movements in her face and can express herself with various motions.

Sandra Herold, who owned the 200-lb chimp Travis, died of an aneurism in 2010. Ms Nash said that if she could say anything to her former boss and friend, she would say she is ‘sorry that all this happened. And, nothing we can change now.’

However, she added that Herold was ‘a trouble person’ that was more worried about her pet – who was shot and killed after the attack – than she was of her. In past interviews, Ms Nash revealed that having a new face allowed her simple human pleasures – she has regained her sense of smell and can eat again.

I can’t even imagine myself in Charla’s shoes. What a tragic, horrifying nightmare she and her family has had to endure! You know, I say I have a fear of clowns, but ain’t now way a clown can kick my ass. But I’m pretty sure I’m helpless against a rampaging Chimp who has the strength of five of me. My nightmare fuel? This: