need not give up on healing themselves when tragedy strikes. but instead they can make a choice to find the good and allow that to help them heal. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen visited carmen and her new boyfriend and heard their incredible story. don, for six years carmen tarleton lived withen extremely disfigured face. her doctor told her about a new procedure called the full facial transplant. carmen loved her husband, but when their marriage fell apart, he attacked her. dousing her with industrial-strength lye. her beautiful face destroyed. deep burns on over 80% of her body. more than 50 surgeries saved her life, but doctors couldn t erase the scars. you re the head of a major burn
0 today. it was the bloomsday race in spokane. he says he s lucky to be alive and still dealing with sore quadriceps muscles. glad he s okay. what a moment last night before the boston bruins playoff game. marathon bombing survive, jeff bauman, in front of the maple leafs waving a banner that read boston strong. bauman lost both legs in last month s attack but helped the authorities identify the accused bombers. hello, everyone, i m don lemon. this is the cnn newsroom. let s get you up to speed on what s happening now. fbi agents in hazmat suits searched the home of one of the boston bombing suspects today. the surviving suspect, dzhokhar tsarnaev, tell police he and his brother built the bombs there, that exploded at the boston marathon last month. investigators have found bomb residue inside the apartment. we are live from boston in just a moment here on cnn. syria says israel has declared war on the country with these devastated explosions overnight near the capital, damascus.
but instead they can make a choice to find the good and allow that to help them heal. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen visited tarleton and her new boyfriend and heard their incredible story. carmen tarleton loved her husband, but when their marriage fell apart, he attacked her, dousing her with chemicals. deep burns on over 80% of her body. more than 50 surgeries saved her life, but doctors couldn t erase the scars. you re the head of a major burn unit. have you ever seen a burn injury like this? never. never seen anything like this. then doctors at brimham women s hospital in boston came up with an idea. how about taking a face from a woman who died and giving it to carmen? in a 15-hour surgery doctors replaced carmen s skin, muscles,
this applies only to the plan b one step pill. a federal judge ruled that the morning after birth control pill should be available over the counter to girls as young as 15. politically motivated emergency contraceptions are intended for use 72 hours after unprotected sex. a truly amazing story of survival and spirit. a woman who s face was destroyed by her ex-husband six years ago now has a new face and a new life. three months after her surgery, carmen spoke to reporters about her full face transplant. there is a lot to learn to take from horrific events that happen. i want others to know that they need not give up on healing themselves when tragedy strikes.
carmen, what do you see? i see an incredible woman. i see a woman that loves strength, inner beauty and outer beauty. right now carmen doesn t have much control over her face. can you smile? little bit, yeah. doctors tell her it will keep getting better and better. he kisses me. i can t pucker and feel yet, but i am looking forward to that day because i know that day will come. so i am looking forward to it. what a story. elizabeth is joining us now. what an inspiration this woman is, elizabeth. can she see? how much can she see? she can see a bit, wolf. you might have noticed one eye was closed. and that eye is completely blind. but the other eye was taped, a little piece of tape holding it open. and the reason for that is that carmen can t open her eyelids on her own. doctors hope in the coming months they can remove that tape