Man's eye transplant recovery leaves doctors "truly amazed" after live wire accident
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A veteran who received the world's first whole-eye transplant recently traded in his old license plate, featuring his injured face, for a new one showing off his recovery.
Utility line worker Aaron James lost most of his face in a June 2021 work incident when he accidentally touched a 7,200 volt live wire. Doctors performed the world's first whole-eye and partial-face transplant in May 2023 and now James is back to daily life.
"I'm pretty much back to being a normal guy, doing normal things," James said in a press release from NYU Langone Health in New York City. "All in all, though, this has been the most transformative year of my life."
Treasures long forgotten by history have been uncovered beneath the surface in underground digs or hidden away in attics or storage spaces. In the case of a rare document nearly 237 years old, it was in a nondescript squat metal filing cabinet that had been sitting discarded and gathering dust in an eastern North Carolina home for who knows how long.