The Man Who Lost His Face

I stayed up one hour later than the time I usually head to bed just to watch some show called "The Man Who Lost His Face" on TLC. I think it was worth being tired and sleepy the next morning. Although, some parts were very disturbing, I continued watching it. It was quite a beautiful story. It was about this 53 years old man named Jose Mestre, from Portugal, who came with his sister and niece to Chicago to see Dr. McKinnon. Jose Mestre had a tumor in his face since the age of 14 and the tumor continued to grow, defecting his facial features. His left eye is already blinded and his tongue was like 10x's the normal size of average human's tongue. Clearly, it was making it hard for Mestre to eat and breathe. Before the surgery was performed, Jose Mestre and his sister took a tour around Chicago and he sees people snapping pictures of him. The sister then points at those people and make them come over to her and delete them. I feel it's so rude of those people to snap pictures of him. During the procedure of the surgery, they removed over 10 lbs of tumor off his face. He was then released for two months for the healing process before going on to surgery number two. Since his mouth moved all the way to his right side, they have to reconstruct it back to the center. Doctors had to take take skin from his ears and legs in order to construct him a nose. Along aside with that, they also reduced the size of his tongue. After all the pain he had gone through, you can tell he was happy again. He didn't hide himself in the house anymore and actually wants to go out for walks. The day before he went back to Portugal, he visited his favorite nurses and doctor. He was dancing and singing with the nurses. It was adorable. The last 40 years or so may be a living hell to him, but those days are now over. I'm really glad that he had his sister's support through everything. Though they say he may need more surgery in the future, his life is promising.