I can chew chicken, it's a little softer. “They just made some bottom teeth for me recently,” she said. She puts herself through gruelling physical therapy on her face as she works to strengthen her jaw. She explained how she now spends her days listening to audio books alone and going for walks in the grounds of her nursing home in Massachusetts. I don't know what my future is, that's the scary part.” “Sometimes you want to cry, you want out, you want some kind of home. Not even live - half-live,” Charla added. Recently she was fitted with teeth that allow her to chew tougher foods, such as chicken. Two years after the assault Charla underwent reconstructive surgery and was given a new face.ĭoctors at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston also fitted the single mum with a glass eye but were unsuccessful in attempts to transplant a hand. The monkey called, Travis, seriously disfigured her and she sustained extensive damage to her eyes, nose, lips and hands. The 60-year-old was left fighting for her life in February 2009 after a friend’s pet chimp launched a brutal attack on her. I could change my own truck tyre, and now I can’t even feed myself.” “Unfortunately, there's not a whole lot I can do,” she said. A woman who had her face and hands ripped off by a chimpanzee, has told of her battle to cope five years on.Ĭharla Nash spoke about the isolation she feels but added she was determined to get better regardless.Īnd now, three years after her face transplant, Charla is even practising expressions so she can learn to smile again.īut she revealed that other residents at the American care home where she lives no longer go near her because of her appalling injuries.
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