You may have heard about the truck full of hogs that turned over on Highway I-9 on Wednesday between Charlottesville and the exit for the Canterbury Mall. Well, it was a major collision. Ham was everywhere – the smell traveled for miles and those with their mouths watering turned in horror, when what appeared to be possibly the odor of a church picnic, was in fact a devil’s playground.

Three were left dead and several were injured including a Ms. Wheeze of Cobble Court Road – who was on her way to a modeling job at Sears. As Ms. Wheeze is a Mannequin, they rushed her here to Indemnity General to see what we could do to help.

The case was dire – she was rushed to the ER, her sternum cracked and her face scraped almost hockey-puck flat. We stabilized her and when she finally came to – we had to tell her the bad news. She would never model again.

That was when she asked about the controversial Face transplant surgery. True it had been done on a woman in Cleveland.

But it was a huge risk. Right now the patient is stable and we can keep her alive, but if she elects this risky surgery… She may die.

The face would have to come from a cadaver and we do have some transplant candidates available, but what about the family of the person whose face would be donated (seen below)? What are their rights? What would be the protocol if someone was walking around with the face of your sister – or your mother… would you be comfortable with that – would you expect a relationship with that person?

Ms. Wheeze is still in the hospital and insists that the radical full face surgery be tried.

I am still not one hundred percent comfortable with it – so I open it up to the forum….