80 Percent Burned: A Face & Hand Transplant | Joe DiMeo
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カートに追加できませんでした。
ウィッシュリストに追加できませんでした。
ほしい物リストの削除に失敗しました。
ポッドキャストのフォローに失敗しました
ポッドキャストのフォロー解除に失敗しました
80 Percent Burned: A Face & Hand Transplant | Joe DiMeo
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Joe DiMeo was eighteen, driving home from an overnight shift, when he fell asleep at the wheel. The crash left him with third-degree burns over 80 percent of his body. His hands and his face were gone. What followed was months in a coma, a burn unit, and a recovery that asked him to relearn how to walk, eat, and exist in a body that no longer resembled the one he'd had.
Two years later, Joe became the first person in the world to successfully receive a combined face and double hand transplant in a single surgery. It was a 23-hour operation involving more than 140 doctors and staff, made possible by a donor's family he'd never met.
This conversation isn't really about the accident, or even the transplant. It's about what comes after—the strange work of grieving a face and a set of hands while learning to live inside new ones, the identity questions nobody prepares you for, and the daily discipline of rebuilding a life that looks nothing like the one you planned. Joe talks candidly about resilience without polish, about what he still struggles with, and about the people who carried him through the parts he couldn't carry himself.
More on Joe's story at thegoodbyepodcast.com.