{"id":1797,"date":"2026-04-10T09:56:22","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:56:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/?p=1797"},"modified":"2026-04-10T09:56:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T09:56:22","slug":"carmen-tarletons-remarkable-fight-to-keep-her-transplanted-face-and-her-hope-alive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/?p=1797","title":{"rendered":"Carmen Tarleton\u2019s Remarkable Fight to Keep Her Transplanted Face\u2014and Her Hope Alive"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Carmen Tarleton has endured extraordinary challenges throughout her life. In 2007, her estranged husband attacked her with a bottle of lye, leaving her face unrecognizable and burning 85% of her body. For years afterward, she lived with constant pain, especially in her neck and face, as the skin grafts grew increasingly tight.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then, on Valentine\u2019s Day six years ago, the former transplant nurse received the news she had long been waiting for: a donor had provided a full face and neck. After a complex surgery at Brigham and Women\u2019s Hospital in Boston, however, her body began rejecting the transplant. Doctors struggled to stop the rejection. With little time left, they tried a small dose of an anti-rejection medication as a final option. The treatment worked\u2014the rejection stopped, and Tarleton began to heal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"630\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3248-630x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3248-630x1024.jpeg 630w, https:\/\/usvibee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3248-185x300.jpeg 185w, https:\/\/usvibee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3248-768x1248.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/usvibee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3248-945x1536.jpeg 945w, https:\/\/usvibee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3248-1260x2048.jpeg 1260w, https:\/\/usvibee.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_3248.jpeg 1320w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Screenshot<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Carmen Tarleton has endured extraordinary challenges throughout her life. In 2007, her estranged husband attacked her with a bottle of lye, leaving her face unrecognizable and burning 85% of her&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"views":25,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1799,"href":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1797\/revisions\/1799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usvibee.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}