Karnee Bishnoi before he was attacked (L); after 11 months of treatment
Eleven months ago, Karnee Bishnoi didn’t have a face. A raging bull ripped apart the right side of his face with its horn and the man from Bikaner only remembers waking up four days later in a Delhi hospital. No one gave Bishnoi any chance at survival.
Today, the 38-year-old is not only alive, but his face has also been restored to near normal with the world’s latest reconstruction techniques. “It feels like a rebirth,” the FMCG company employee told TOI. It definitely is, because on September 3, 2020, when the bull’s left horn lacerated his lips, smashed his nose, gouged out the right eyeball and herniated upward through the front lobe of his brain, even the doctors at the local hospital he was rushed to could do nothing more than stem the bleeding and put in some big sutures.