I’m 60 years old. My heart was shattered and broken in pieces by my first love at 19 years old who left me high and dry. I thought of ending it back in 1979. I didn’t. I would have missed SO much. A great life. My husband. 3 wonderful grown sons and my first grandchild, a baby girl, due in June. No one is worth ending your life over.
Lessons for young people: no one you break up with or who breaks up with you is worth your life, face, sight, etc. say goodbye, wish them well and continue on with your full life.
One would think this perfectly logical life lesson is the most simplistic and realistic way to live life, especially since it's been told countlessly throughout the years. The original writer of this life lesson failed miserably to view life through the eyes of depression. Until depression is experienced, there are no words to prevent the accompanied tragedies . . . not one.
It's not the breakup that causes suicide. It's ongoing depression that is pushed over the edge. It's more dangerous in teens as hormones wreak havok in the brain.
@@Rogue-Drone It's devastating to me that you have the audacity to say this.Nobody wakes up wanting to kill themselves there is always a reason.From bullying to emotional abuse and many more.No suicide victim should be blamed for what happened
I would like to give praise to the family of the lady who died and donated her face for Katy. Praise to the surgeons who had a very difficult task and did an amazing job and lastly to Katy and her family for their incredible bravery at every step. I think Katy is beautiful inside and out.
With all due respect to the incredible advances in facial reconstruction....the fact that 40 people in the same room, operating together in harmony is what also fascinates me.
She became a guinea pig...it was experimental, and some of those there are probably new graduates as well trying to learn from an expert...but yeah, that's in Ohio...
@@ashleysantos6102 Not all 40 people work at the same time. They work in shifts, as no human can keep up the kind of concentration needed for a 31 hour operation of that magnitude.
They probably learned how to function as a team from the average Army battle staff. There is no greater focus of purpose and intellectual effort than one finds during the last mission of a heavy brigade at the National Training Center. I've spent my life around big brains, and I still regard my NTC rotations as the pinnacle experience of a one-team intellectual effort.
This should be shown in schools to teens to make them aware of the importance of sharing their feelings and getting professional advice before making a decision that could change their lives forever. It is a graphic lesson that could save a life.
Despite it being very tragic, what’s beautiful about it is seeing the parents being so strong and showing unconditional love to their daughter. It’s so touching.
@@yenchu1237 i am glad u repsonded to this post. i am going to delete it. who knows if she reads this stuff, and i didnt think before i posted. thanx for reminder.
To anyone reading this that is suffering from a breakup take it from this 65 year old who has been through so many breakups that though the pain is so intense you WILL get through it and over it. Please, please don't try to hurt yourself or end your life because another person has hurt you. My heart goes out to this beautiful girl. God please bless her and her family.
I look back years and can tell you that people who I thought I couldn't live without at the time are barely a memory now. NOBODY is worth doing that to yourself
Don't know why I watched this video. Your comment was probably the most common sense statement made. I cannot fathom somebody would do that to themselves (and to her family)..... for any reason.
@Skynet you blame this on a boy who didn't want to be with her?? The problem was always her and the therapy she needed from an early age to prevent it. In the end she got the therapy she needed by not dying.
@Green Rose I understand... just don't do it. I went through a cognitive-behavioral health program back when I was losing it. You might look into something like that because truly... if he left you then let him leave. The best revenge is living a good life. 💗💗
I've struggled with my mental health since I was a child. I'm turning 31 soon. This young girl saying she's grateful for a second chance at life... wow. Very, very sobering. I'm glad she was given this opportunity but my heart truly breaks for the pain she's gone through, physical and mental.
Depression will never be understood by those not consumed. It is impossible even for those to understand. Depression destroys logic and until you have faced chronic depression, you will never understand it's destructive path. I have lived with it all my life and it continues to get worse. My heart sinks for this young women.
People that are clinically depressed can also suffer projection where they believe that others are depressed. From the video I see no indication that the young woman was suffering from depression.
Having depression is the worst, hardest and toughest thing I have ever live, I was in such despair, my only wish was to stop the sadness I felt!!!...I seek for help (did meditation, went to psicology therapy and psychiatric consultation) and now I am so happy I did all that...my body and mind are again in the best condition...but it was really hard!!! I am so lucky; please stop saying heartless words if you never have had depression, it is so unbelievably life threatening. We don't know for sure what Katie was feeling, but for her it was an scape to her loss and sorrow. I totally feel I can understand her.
I had depression last month its really sucks .... couldn't get over it until i went to a therapist ..nobody knows how bad it feels until u face it ..some claim that they have it and they don't really know how it feels and how serious it is !!!...when someone lose their appetite can't sleep have a bad things in his mind thinking about suicide and thinking he's worthless ..u cant smile ..u cant talk to anyone .people do really affects u .. I've been in a circle full of negative people when i lost my mom and thats how people affects me i was about to kill myself but now i knew that nobody deserves to kill myself for !bc its my life and im going to live it no matter what! ....and people like this needs alot of support and positivity in their life thats what happened to me and im gald im out of it
It's not just slapping on a new face. There was so much underlying skull and structure that had to be rebuilt. It's amazing how all of it came together as a whole. A very talented team of surgeons, indeed.
Atefeh KhalilKhaneh Matters of the heart are things you just can’t comprehend! There have been certain irrational decisions I took for love and when I look back, I wonder and ask myself what the hell was I thinking?
Aaojda A I agree with you. Moreover she was too young for her age to take mature decisions. Still I'd say she should've consulted someone who understands before taking such major decisions over a boy thing. Sure we all are naive then but we always have someone or other to open ourselves to.
@@Trixiesstudioproductions2003 you should seek mental help immediately. And yes it is selfish. Killing yourself, making your family walk in and find your body, make them suffer and feel like it's their fault. And in this case all because she got broken up with. Selfish and you sound selfish too and must really hate your family
I was 17 and very much in love. When he told me he was leaving after 9 months of dating my world caved in. But after a few days and nights crying I decided to pay him back by being the best I can the rest of my life. Did not date until I turned 21 and had a ball. At 23 fell madly in love and we married 2 years later. I was 28 when I had my first baby. I thank my lucky stars that he dumped me.
@Dewd McMan she showed him by not giving herself away to someone who wasn't worth her time, finding a wonderful person to marry and having a family. Sound like pretty good goals to me!
Yes, support and love IS everything. If you don’t have it, life is a struggle!! My dad would not of supported me like her parents. His stance would be: you did this to yourself.
@@canadasweetie ..Yes same here. I never had love nor support from my alcoholic parent either. My parent was extremely abusive to me & wouldn't care if this had happened to me. This probably would've made my parent very happy because a few times as a child my parent attempted to kill me. But God in Jesus Christ is my anchor & savior in this life. 🙏 This girl is very fortunate to have loving supportive parents. 💝
Saddest part of this story is the fact that the person she did this over has probably moved on with his life with college, marriage etc and she’s been through all this trauma. In my mind, don’t ever do for others what they wouldn’t do for you.
No guy is ever worth wasting your life away through self-sabotage. Keep counting the things you are grateful for when it gets tough. Talk to someone about your feelings. In every situation, you are luckier than someone else. Seek solutions that will help you out, for a temporary problem.
I have listened to Katie's story many times. Today, in July 2021, I have noticed for the first time that from early childhood she had herself under extreme pressure. In this report her mother says, of her daughter's high school experience, "She had to have that 4.0. " This represents perfectionism. And too much self inflicted pressure. In my opinion, this level of perfectionism in the approach of an elementary or high school student, should be taken as a strong warning. I understand that Katie's parents are doing their absolute best now. It is obvious that they have always cared about their daughter. I just believe that there could be a connection between perfectionistic, high pressure behavior, and suicide attempts. There is this "if it is not good enough I'll just end it" attitude which can be really dangerous. Obviously her parents are great...they are wonderful. I would just ask the parents and family members of over-achieving, perfectionistic students, to guide their child in the direction of easing up on themselves. 3.9 grade average might be good enough. A few losses on the soccer field...acceptable. Just like yourself and accept yourself, as you are.
Having a gun around doesn't seem to have done her any favors either. I wonder how many life-threatening situations her parents actually experienced that legitimize having that easy-out laying around?
Oh God, this is hard to read. Perfectionists generally feel a deep sense of regret over their mistakes. I cannot fathom the intense regret this lady went through.
Nowadays we are so used to judging people faces, whether they are pretty, whether they are perfect...until we actually forgot the functions of a face. With a face, we can see, we can breathe, smile, eat, hear... but when Katie lost her face she can barely even talk. If you have a functional body, it is perfect enough. But most importantly, love yourself for who you are, and what anybody else say will be nothing to you. ❤
blinkoncearmy _ you put so eloquently, the words that I was trying to find. Sadly in society, functional is often not judged as enough. We are all humans with feelings.
I am 70 years old. My first "love" dumped me at 20 years old because of our different religions. I was crushed. She was Jewish, I was Protestant. Her family didn't approve of that difference and she subsequently was pressured into dumping me. Hit me very hard but I was fortunate enough to be able to rationalize about what had happened and that it wasn't my fault. She found her "Jewish prince" and married him in 1976. He didn't love her, he cheated on her multiple times through the years, something I wouldn't have ever done. They divorced at some point. Sad.
When I was in high school, my high school sweetheart & I broke up in our junior year. I was devastated and cried for half a year and took years to actually get over it. It shadowed a lot of my young years. After the break up, I had to endure seeing him with the other girl on a daily basis as we went to the same school. He ended up taking her to the prom I’d already purchased the dress for, as we broke up the month before prom. People who knew me asked my Mom what was wrong as I’d changed from a happy, always smiling, confident girl, to a shadow of myself. I hid in our closet to cry constantly. I never thought of taking my own life, but if God had said that I’d be dying soon, I wouldn’t have flinched. I went thru the rest of my high school years acting as if I was fine, hiding behind being a varsity song leader, an active social life, and other boys(I always had dates) whom I resented because they weren’t the boy I loved. I was really a very sad girl. My poor Mom, I never stopped to notice that my pain was hers; I was too absorbed in my own woes. Only now, as a mother, do I realize that you can’t always fix what hurts your child, and that is very painful. Anyway, I’m now 74, have lived a wonderful life mostly with the love of my life, my husband. If I could tell my 16 & 17 yr old self anything, it would be to stop wasting so much time crying, enjoy the people that love you, and the boys that want to be around you. I wasted so many days. In retrospect, it was all but a drop in the bucket of my life!
You are lucky you were confident and had a social life and dated when you were young. I was extremely shy and had social anxiety when I was in my teens which prevented me from making friends let alone dating. It was awful. You say you were sad but you were lucky you got to experience all that when you were young. That you had boys interested in you and had a social life. It's much better then living with shyness and social anxiety which prevents you from enjoying and experiencing things as a teenager
Someday, I’d love to hear her giving a TED Talk when her speech & condition gets improved. She’s a beautiful soul and so strong. Her story is really really extreme and inspirational. Hope she gets well soon.
@@kodguerrero That's impossible, more like 20%, speech therapy can't fix structural issues. Speech therapy can only help you attain the best you can be with what you already got. She suffered major permanent damage to her mouth. If you take a look at her CT scan you'll see both her lower and upper jaws were almost completely destroyed, including her tongue. You can rebuild the jaws to some extent, but you cannot rebuild the tongue, and the tongue is an essential mechanism for us humans to make words out of sounds.
@@floatingchimney Oh, I was more thinking about the rest of the body aside from the face.... Her body is atrophied from being in bed so long plus nerve damage from having a bullet pass near the brain/spine. It'm not sure how much is her body and how much is her mind
@Jose Carreras So very true. “For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made; your works are wonderful, I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you when I was made in the secret place, when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body; all the days ordained for me were written in your book before one of them came to be. How precious to me are your thoughts, a God!” Psalm 139:13-17
I'm glad so many people pulled together to give her another chance at a full life. for everyone out there going through a hard time, try to remember that it will pass + lots of people (even people who don't know you personally) care about you 💛
it’s hard at that age to be able to rationalize… your love feelings are so so strong you truly believe you can’t live without them. I was like it over boyfriends when I was younger but completely grew out of it.
Calling her suicide attempt "mistake" seems like a big understatement. Better described as a very deliberate and desperate act of a very emotionally unstable young woman. Very sad.
@@treasuretrovel3816 - well, sometimes mistakes are small, like we rear end somebody in a parking lot. Sometimes mistakes are huge, and they alter our lives and the lives of others forever.
You're never the same after seeing something like that. My sis used a hand gun, not a shot gun, so it was a lot less horrifying... but the awful thing about a suicide by gun is that it happens SO FAST... you have no time to process what you're seeing. Literally just 'boom'... and she's gone.
@@maryellenthompson8261 So true. But apparently she didn’t get to see her face, since Katie’s brother dragged the mom immediately out. She had time to only see the legs. Such a smart and caring young man.
This really is the lesson of all lessons and so hard to teach young people - that a single decision can, will and does change the entire course of your life forever.
Katie--thank you so much for sharing your story. I shared your story with my no 14.5 y/o daughter about a year ago, and I will share it with her again. I never want my daughter to feel that ANY relationship, or any other issue in life, is worth committing suicide. She also had step-sister that successfully committed suicide at 17 (my daughter was 10 at the time, so it was in 2018) by gun-shot--her dad's gun. It was horrific. I can't imagine whether it's better to survive something like that or not--but YOU have shown such bravery in sharing your story and I can't thank you enough
Everyone saying it’s stupid to take your life over a breakup is missing their own point. People usually do NOT think life is over after a breakup, and for that to be her breaking point it’s clear that there were other things going on with her mentally. People who are not either depressed, emotionally unstable or otherwise emotionally distraught would not choose that option. Don’t think she gave up her life over something so simple
KAYLA DELVECHIO Most teenagers who think they're madly in love think it's the end of the world sometimes when they have a break-up. I remember my son being very upset and I'd tell him. Trust me, in a little while this won't be a blip on your radar. He trusted in my experience. I'm sure she was very young and immature. Maybe felt she had no one to turn to or her parents wouldn't understand. It's a horrific way to learn life lessons. That break-ups happen to everyone and are not the end of the world.
gojobuddy I’m not trying to say a breakup isn’t entirely heartbreaking and a terrible experience. But for someone to put their entire life’s value into one person is not healthy and might indicate that other things may be going on, or rather, may be missing in a persons life.
Rata 4U Unfortunately, I have had similar experiences, but I’ve come to realize that that kind of love is closer to obsession. While pain is pain, if a doctor can name some of what is fueling the intensity of that pain it would be a good thing. It’s not a crazy decision but it’s not a decision a mentally and emotionally stable person would make.
KAYLA DELVECHIO I read in another report she had a surgery to remove a part of her brain because of high-pressure in it .... She doesn't have all her consciousness anymore and that....they don't speak about it.
Katie, your alive for a reason! And ur gratitude towards having a second chance at life speaks a lot about who u r. I can not even imagine what this is like for you and ur family. You have truly inspired me! God loves you so much and wants to use in so many ways to help the broken! What an inspiration! God bless you and ur family!
Such a beautiful girl before this tragedy. Heartbreak is painful, but it's not worth this devastation. If only she'd had someone to talk to, so she could get through it, she could've led a normal life rather than go through this trauma. I'm glad she's rebuilding, not only her face, but her life.
Yes, but all the people outside her family don't see the heart and soul. They only see what's on the outside. What they see is someone with virtually no face which is shocking and upsetting to the average person. I bet you'd want help in her place.
The perseverance to overcome so much proves just how precious her life is. I wish her and her family continued healing for this brave, beautiful woman.
I put a gun in my mouth and pulled the trigger at the age of 58. Depression like any other disease can be fatal. My injuries are not a severe but it did take 5 surgeries to get my face functional again.. I thank God and give him the glory for my second chance. God blessed you dear and your path forward will be to help others not get to that point, as is mine.
@@vishnus.p.4007 God didn’t do that. It’s the absence of God that did that, no criticizing her or her parents. We know if we were born in heaven, the just as the likes of Satan would, some of us would be bad. God put new life here, in an imperfect world, so that those who merely accept him can have a glorious life in Heaven, and those who don’t accept him simply pass on, gone. Jesus, the first born, allowed all those terrible things to be done to Him, physical, emotional, pain and mental anguish, to be fair. He’s asking us to endure this world whatever comes, and don’t turn your back on God, just as He would not, even with all that was done to Him. God didn’t interfere on Christs behalf, because it would be cruel to all those he doesn’t choose to step in on. When He does intervene, he must do it “as a thief,” because if He makes a big deal of it, He will cause many more to feel abandoned. Please, if you do not want everlasting life with God, don’t try to take some with you, by doing you best to influence. With all the evil that harms people on earth, try not to lead others to the ultimate evil, eternity without them there with God.
A super nice attractive girl in my junior class had an extremely difficult breakup in spring and had to drop out and seek help. She came back our senior year and we shared a street locker (due to school overcrowding) and became close besties. I helped her see there are nice guys still out there waiting for her. She went on to live a rich rewarding life. As well did I. We saw each other for the first time since high school at our 50th reunion. We sat alone and caught up on each other’s lives. It was awesome!
Agree completely. When I was 9 I passed every water fountain thinking I need a drink but I was young and trying to stay with my friends less than an hr later I had a life massive stroke🤕. If I would've stopped and drank I'm positive this wouldn't have happened.
It really can. Life from primordial slime is a joke; That is to say that all of this experience of life and everything in it is pointless-honestly I don’t believe in atheist; meaning nobody is truly at their core truly an atheist-99% of the time is because someone is offended at God, and deceive themselves into thinking all they have to do is just believe that he’s not real or that he is some concoction of some fantastical thing that’s cool to think about-it (atheism) really is just a joke with all due respect anyone’s right to think whatever,and when you think about it, it’s psychological suicide at best. I have to correct myself-41& on dialysis for over 10 years now out of nowhere, and super exhausted feeling like really? But then I see this. Thank God whatever state were in the somebody is definitely going through through, has gone through or did not make it through much worse.
@K O Then of a certainty, fellow human, you’ve never* heard of the very real and one true God of the Bible. Now if you really wanna know about Him, I’m too happy to have dialogue with you- but if you’re already intent on mocking or criticizing that faith , please don’t bother... the vapid angry vitriolic profile is just utterly trite and painfully boring (not to mention, very telling). Otherwise, much live and I’m all to honored to tell someone about the mighty & loving ( yes, loving) God who loves me perfectly night and day and through sand in spite of all things. ❤️cheerio❤️
@@aisha6984 shes not dumb, she probably or most-likely had mental health issue/s. There are worse reactions to people that have been dumped, there was this one boy in my school who received a letter from his gf saying that he was being dumped, i have no idea what he had been going through in his life but the fact he jumped out a 3 storey building into wet CEMENT told me that he had most likely been going through ALOT. (i was in year7 when i saw him commit suicide) i've had nightmares
@FROY No.. idk how to say this and I'm not qualified for this but you gotta Live bud ❤️.. ..you got this life no one knows how, but you can enjoy it.. Ik times have been every upsetting recently but maybe you can find joy in little things.. like gardening or drawing or nature.. idk.. I'm not qualified for this but I really need you to have some hope bud ❤️ we're in this together ❤️
ash u obviously don’t know how sick people are and how they feel it isn’t just about that so shut up you stupid kid there are people who truly struggle out their mentally and with there self and have problems with living and dealing with things and yeah it’s bad, but how much do you think she regrets it now, and instead of supporting her being able to live and get help you’d rather just pick apart why she did it? Go f*ck yourself
An amazing surgery that can help a grievously injured person regain her life. I would love to see an update so we can see how Katie is doing now, two years after this video was made. I hope she has gained all she wanted from the face transplant.
My first year at college I was in the library doing research in the microfilm collection when a storm dropped a couple of F3 tornadoes an hour away and was heading straight for us. Everybody in the library was "evacuated" to basement levels to ride out the danger, and I just roamed among the shelves some X floors underground and spotted a book titled something like "Gunshot Wound Surgery". It intrigued me, and even though it was quite graphic I was AMAZED at what reconstructive surgery could accomplish for such disastrously traumatic destruction. At the time, transplanting a face was still decades in the future. That book kept my attention for the duration of our "evacuation". And, no, I did not decide in that moment to become a plastic surgeon. Can't sew worth a diddley-doo.
This is exactly what true love is capable of. The surgeons loved working with her to better their experience and skill and give her the opportunity to be herself again. Her family and friends were surrounding her with all their love and support and she thrived!
God Bless you to the family that allowed the face of their lost child to be transplanted.”I don’t know how she will help people” The moment this journey began everyone is learning…always try to make the good come out of the bad…thank you Katie for taking this journey for humanity
I would never go as far as to try to end my life over a broken relationship...but it’s remarkable how far the medical field has come to restored Katie’s life...kudos to the doctors!! Bless you Katie and her loving parents.
Well you are extremely blessed with good mental health. Or your a narcissist incapable of putting others before yourself..either way, this girl may have been mentally weak at one point, but God has blessed her with strength incomprehensible to most.
This same thing happened to a buddy of mine. I can't imagine the torment to know that you even failed at the one thing you were looking to set yourself free. The good news is we still have him and he has a whole new outlook on life.
The dad mentioned it was over a break up, but I'm sure there's other factors that contributed to her trying to take her life. It could have been the stress of school and feeling like she wasn't living up to expectations. It could have been facing the reality of growing up and what that means. It could have been tense friendships, friends going through their own stresses, etc. A bunch of little things add up and feel like a huge weight. Mental illness is no joke. One little thing, even if it's dropping a pen, can set you off the deep end. I hope that she was able to heal emotionally too. I commend her for battling physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
What a well put comment from someone who understands it's usually not as simple as a single variable. In some cases it's like you said; little weights that stack on top until it builds up to a mountain your shoulders. This can be over a period of 50 years or just 5 months. Your average person can shake these weights off so they don't build but for a person struggling with depression- these weights are chained to them and it's much harder to cut a chain. Sometimes there isn't even a catalyst that causes it and it can just be a complete change in brain chemistry. In these cases it takes up your whole life. You can feel fine one day and -BAM- the next 6 months you're in a depression. No cause, nobody dying, nothing going wrong, no breakups. Just. Bam. For others in disbelief that depression can exist without causal factors: Just to show an example of how REAL Depression is: Imbalances of the same three neurotransmitters that cause depression also cause Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, fibromyalgia, schizophrenia, etc. if unbalanced in certain ways.
We need to be remained of how precious life is by incredible people like Katie, she is, without doubt, a beautiful, gorgeous and wonderful person. I feel so guilty because I often moan and bitch about the difficulties life has put on my path, but they are nothing compared to what Katie has endured. My heart goes out to her, she was heartbroken and made a silly decision, which has cost her great pain and suffering beyond what anybody can imagine and she certainly did not deserve it. I wish her love, peace, happiness and also god bless all the people, doctors, nurses, and medical team who did so much to help her. People can be truly wonderful when they come together to help others.
She was beautiful. What a terribly sad story. I am glad that she survived and is able to try to rebuild her life, but damn, what a beautiful face to ruin.
@@MarilynLoveYou She insists that she hadn't even planned on killing herself but that just impulsively shot herself in the face. So she makes it sound as if she has trouble controlling her emotional impulses.
Teenagers are compulsive. Emotions run high at that age. I really wish that teens could see not only her example but the many others who had that moment, acted on it and then had to go through the unimaginable. Yet are thankful that they survived.
I have 2 daughters and I can't stop crying. God bless you Katie your beautiful family, the donor and the heroic team of Angels who saved you. Love you kiddo : )
Maybe she had a big depression and she lost her control. We don't know that part. But it's clear to understand she's regretful and now she's trying to make her life beautiful. Now she have a stamina. We can't blame anyone so easy for their past mistakes.
@dachshunds channel he’d feel guilty bc he broke her heart. he didn’t know this is would happen so of course he’d blame himself. he unintentionally caused her a lot of pain and she didn’t wanna feel it anymore
Edna Isabel seriously.. they were just kids. He very well might have done nothing wrong and struggled with the breakup but she clearly had underlying mental health issues before the breakup and maybe that was just the straw that broke the camels back
Andrey Teslenko I didn't say anything about feeling guilty, i just think i would feel weird as fuck, really fucking weird, I was worried about the guy, OBVIOUSLY it's NOT his fault but still, he was her 'reason' for doing this
sam myy yes it was an irrational thought, caused by a temporary emotion. She would have in time moved through it. No human on earth is worth doing something like that to yourself as you are giving away your power to them. This is why we should never act on anything when feeling down as it's just your brain messing with you and it can lead to serious consequences as we see in this story. I really hope that she goes on and inspires others to not have this happen to them. Brave young woman.
So many young people live hour to hour with their feelings or emotions. Poor Katy. But her family is amazing. That’s love right there. Prayers for her continued healing. She is a testimony to others❤
Juustohöylä it says here in this article www.google.com/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/incredible-face-transplant-gives-woman-second-chance-at-life/news-story/8773e8f36eea44adbe40ab423d48070c
Amazing team work: Katie, parents, medical teams, councillors . Katie: live your new life and make a UA-cam career in telling your story and helping others. Best wishes.
She was a teenager, teens aren’t always known for their great decision making, their brains literally aren’t fully developed yet. So much judgment in these comments.
What a horrible thing to say. She has the capability to relearn everything and as time goes on I'm sure her life will get much better and easier. She's still healing and has had many surgeries just so she could eat and talk. She's still recovering. I'm sure her parents are very happy to have her alive no matter what inconvenience it may seem like now. Stay strong!
Justme215 Thanks for the heads-up and I apologize to anyone if I offended them by replying to the wrong post and person.I was multi-tasking and must have messed up.
gojobuddy, To witness accidental offense and an apology in this forum is actually refreshing. It's a bona fide scroll of shame through most of this comment section.
Katie looks beautiful, all these caring doctors are amazing. Bravo to them all. Plus the unconditional love of her parents. God bless her. I hope her life moves forward to be everything she wants it to be.
She still is beautiful/ beauty is not of the eye but of the heart and mind. Peace love and light to her family , those who made this blessing a reality.
Heartbreaking 💔 story! I wish Katie & her family wellness! Although Katie is suffering great trauma, the trauma her family has overcome is amazing, & she is very fortunate to have such a supportive family!
The donor was such a compassionate person. Even after their death, part of them and their good deed lives on. Please consider becoming an organ donor, it's such a gift. Even giving blood is a miracle. My partner wouldn't be here without the blood donations of strangers. Even now I tear up at the thought of strangers saving my love's life. ❤
That's is so tragic yet beautiful!! The team at the hospital are amazing!! The parents love is pure n giving. What about a follow up? I wish you all the joy and love in living a harmonious life Katie 🌹
This is amazing! This procedure has come me so far. I remember the first one. I’m so impressed here. She has every feature perfectly normal and her skin looks beautiful. Just amazing the work this team did 💫
I’m 60 years old. My heart was shattered and broken in pieces by my first love at 19 years old who left me high and dry. I thought of ending it back in 1979. I didn’t. I would have missed SO much. A great life. My husband. 3 wonderful grown sons and my first grandchild, a baby girl, due in June. No one is worth ending your life over.
Sad story
@colarado dreams I am so sorry to hear that. I am just a 12 year old child but wow that breaks my heart! ❤️
Dreaming*
@@rubydarby6235 You’re very sweet. Thank you.
Thank you, I needed this
Lessons for young people: no one you break up with or who breaks up with you is worth your life, face, sight, etc. say goodbye, wish them well and continue on with your full life.
A lesson for everyone: keep your guns separately from ammunition.
Thank you!♥️
One would think this perfectly logical life lesson is the most simplistic and realistic way to live life, especially since it's been told countlessly throughout the years.
The original writer of this life lesson failed miserably to view life through the eyes of depression.
Until depression is experienced, there are no words to prevent the accompanied tragedies . . . not one.
It's not the breakup that causes suicide. It's ongoing depression that is pushed over the edge. It's more dangerous in teens as hormones wreak havok in the brain.
Jessica LT Unless your name is Jessica then you might want to think twice about it
It's amazing how many people focus on Katie losing her looks. That's the least of it. She lost her sight and her independence too.
People forget how important those everyday things really are.
But she's exceptionally pretty
@Mark West truth hurts but I agree with you looks do matter no matter what
No. She gave up here sight and her independence. Make no mistake. She caused this 100%.
@@Rogue-Drone It's devastating to me that you have the audacity to say this.Nobody wakes up wanting to kill themselves there is always a reason.From bullying to emotional abuse and many more.No suicide victim should be blamed for what happened
I would like to give praise to the family of the lady who died and donated her face for Katy. Praise to the surgeons who had a very difficult task and did an amazing job and lastly to Katy and her family for their incredible bravery at every step. I think Katy is beautiful inside and out.
🙏❤️❣️
Such beautiful words for a beautiful person
Amen!
No disrespect to Katy but her donor was the true hero in this. I hope they gave her a good honor walk.
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With all due respect to the incredible advances in facial reconstruction....the fact that 40 people in the same room, operating together in harmony is what also fascinates me.
She became a guinea pig...it was experimental, and some of those there are probably new graduates as well trying to learn from an expert...but yeah, that's in Ohio...
@@ashleysantos6102 Not all 40 people work at the same time. They work in shifts, as no human can keep up the kind of concentration needed for a 31 hour operation of that magnitude.
@@ashleysantos6102 You're a fucking idiot. The Cleveland Clinic is one of the top hospitals in the world. Where are you from? Mexico?
It sooo amazing!!! Medicine has come so far!!
They probably learned how to function as a team from the average Army battle staff. There is no greater focus of purpose and intellectual effort than one finds during the last mission of a heavy brigade at the National Training Center. I've spent my life around big brains, and I still regard my NTC rotations as the pinnacle experience of a one-team intellectual effort.
This should be shown in schools to teens to make them aware of the importance of sharing their feelings and getting professional advice before making a decision that could change their lives forever. It is a graphic lesson that could save a life.
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Is she going to get married & have kids?
@@JonnyLWarren1 God I pray not
@@JonnyLWarren1 who knows? Is that a problem if she does?
@@richardscathouse why not?
Despite it being very tragic, what’s beautiful about it is seeing the parents being so strong and showing unconditional love to their daughter. It’s so touching.
Wonderful parents, if only everyone was so lucky.
@@hippychic7546 I know. On hindsight, I am 100% sure she wouldn't have do it.
@@yenchu1237 i am glad u repsonded to this post. i am going to delete it. who knows if she reads this stuff, and i didnt think before i posted. thanx for reminder.
Probably the only thing getting her through this the unconditional love.
My Dad used to tell me when he saw me very upset: No one and nothing is ever worth getting yourself sick over...he was so right.
That's a good father.
@@irisrose4732 Yes he was..thanks..best advice he ever gave me..☺️💐
Your dad is better than her dad. Her parents failed her.
@@ArranVid I guess they did.😥
Shes so lucky to have loving, rational parents. Many people dont have that
Yeah true
That’s why I’m very grateful for my parents
Exactly 👍
Yep, if it were my parents she wld be end up in orphanage
Did someone shoot her or did she shoot herself?
To anyone reading this that is suffering from a breakup take it from this 65 year old who has been through so many breakups that though the pain is so intense you WILL get through it and over it. Please, please don't try to hurt yourself or end your life because another person has hurt you. My heart goes out to this beautiful girl. God please bless her and her family.
It's beautiful what you're saying, thank you It made my day.
@@breakintoronto5413 You made my day. It's the first time anyone has thanked me for something. Bless your heart.
Thanks Janina ❤️❤️
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You forgot to include the part about how he wasn't what you want in the long run.
I look back years and can tell you that people who I thought I couldn't live without at the time are barely a memory now. NOBODY is worth doing that to yourself
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Don't know why I watched this video. Your comment was probably the most common sense statement made. I cannot fathom somebody would do that to themselves (and to her family)..... for any reason.
Watching everyone else rebound in weeks when it takes me years. That's what I dont understand.
@Skynet you blame this on a boy who didn't want to be with her?? The problem was always her and the therapy she needed from an early age to prevent it. In the end she got the therapy she needed by not dying.
@Green Rose I understand... just don't do it. I went through a cognitive-behavioral health program back when I was losing it. You might look into something like that because truly... if he left you then let him leave. The best revenge is living a good life. 💗💗
I've struggled with my mental health since I was a child. I'm turning 31 soon. This young girl saying she's grateful for a second chance at life... wow. Very, very sobering. I'm glad she was given this opportunity but my heart truly breaks for the pain she's gone through, physical and mental.
Please ask for help when you are depressed. You are worth it.
Me too. The anguish she must have felt to try and take her own life, it's hard to imagine.
So...I guess you DON'T shoot your face off.
Hang Tough Kid…Just Pick Yourself Up…Dust Yourself Off…And Start All Over Again…Live For The Good Times & Enjoy Them With EVERYTHING You Got…👊🏼
Watch ps chris oyakhilome
Depression will never be understood by those not consumed. It is impossible even for those to understand. Depression destroys logic and until you have faced chronic depression, you will never understand it's destructive path. I have lived with it all my life and it continues to get worse. My heart sinks for this young women.
Rose Renee I agree with you, but you sound a bit harsh with this poor soul. They probably misjudged is all.
ipKonfig.com I pray that you get better🙏🏻!
People that are clinically depressed can also suffer projection where they believe that others are depressed. From the video I see no indication that the young woman was suffering from depression.
Having depression is the worst, hardest and toughest thing I have ever live, I was in such despair, my only wish was to stop the sadness I felt!!!...I seek for help (did meditation, went to psicology therapy and psychiatric consultation) and now I am so happy I did all that...my body and mind are again in the best condition...but it was really hard!!! I am so lucky; please stop saying heartless words if you never have had depression, it is so unbelievably life threatening. We don't know for sure what Katie was feeling, but for her it was an scape to her loss and sorrow. I totally feel I can understand her.
I had depression last month its really sucks .... couldn't get over it until i went to a therapist ..nobody knows how bad it feels until u face it ..some claim that they have it and they don't really know how it feels and how serious it is !!!...when someone lose their appetite can't sleep have a bad things in his mind thinking about suicide and thinking he's worthless ..u cant smile ..u cant talk to anyone .people do really affects u .. I've been in a circle full of negative people when i lost my mom and thats how people affects me i was about to kill myself but now i knew that nobody deserves to kill myself for !bc its my life and im going to live it no matter what! ....and people like this needs alot of support and positivity in their life thats what happened to me and im gald im out of it
In my opinion there’s nothing worse than trying to end it, failing and then having to suffer through something like this.
same
So many people who try, end up with life altering disabilities.
God has a plan.
Well it's better than not existing anymore
Horrific.
Have no words. Make me rethink my own conduct and attitude in life. I think it is time to educate myself to be much more positive.
That's exactly how I feel
I know.
Good to hear.
@@montanatony5838 I admire your strength
@Brad1156 why would you make that conclusion from a 6 minute video? that's so harsh
It's not just slapping on a new face. There was so much underlying skull and structure that had to be rebuilt. It's amazing how all of it came together as a whole. A very talented team of surgeons, indeed.
She was so pretty... I couldn’t imagine how much she regrets it and wishes she could go back and change that day
G Venchy yes
G Venchy i can't believe she did it to herself just for a boy! Her father said it was gf & bf break up thing!
Atefeh KhalilKhaneh Matters of the heart are things you just can’t comprehend! There have been certain irrational decisions I took for love and when I look back, I wonder and ask myself what the hell was I thinking?
Aaojda A I agree with you. Moreover she was too young for her age to take mature decisions. Still I'd say she should've consulted someone who understands before taking such major decisions over a boy thing. Sure we all are naive then but we always have someone or other to open ourselves to.
I have a gut feeling that she’ll attempt suicide again because of the regret she feels now. She was pretty as hell.
big respect to the medical staff for this job!
wiizeus we'll see where the chips fall
As a mother myself I couldn't imagine watching my child go through this. Absolutely strong family.
Dorothy Bannister j
I think you do what you have to do. The strength must rise up.
Same! I’d be so grateful my child is alive but also hate that they have to go through this because of an impulse decision they made.
YES VERY STRONG
What would you do if she would be ur child????
She is lucky to have such wonderful dedicated parents. Without them she probably wouldn’t even be here.
which is what she wanted
@@justaguy4788 which is selfish and cowardly so good she didn't get what she wanted
@@noncompliant209cali Not "selfish", what's selfish is calling someone selfish for not going through pain by existing just for you.
@@Trixiesstudioproductions2003 you should seek mental help immediately. And yes it is selfish. Killing yourself, making your family walk in and find your body, make them suffer and feel like it's their fault. And in this case all because she got broken up with. Selfish and you sound selfish too and must really hate your family
@@noncompliant209cali How dare you say that. Who are you to decide what is 'cowardly and selfish' for another person?
I was 17 and very much in love. When he told me he was leaving after 9 months of dating my world caved in. But after a few days and nights crying I decided to pay him back by being the best I can the rest of my life. Did not date until I turned 21 and had a ball. At 23 fell madly in love and we married 2 years later. I was 28 when I had my first baby. I thank my lucky stars that he dumped me.
I'm getting over a breakup with my girlfriend of 8 years. Glad to read this!
I never forgot you though babe. Am so sorry
@@mrpendleton5414 😂😂😂😂
Reminds me of the song “Unanswered Prayers” by Garth Brooks.
@Dewd McMan she showed him by not giving herself away to someone who wasn't worth her time, finding a wonderful person to marry and having a family. Sound like pretty good goals to me!
Her Dad seems very intelligent. Her parents are strong, supportive & loving. I think that will help her go on in life.
God Bless Them All.
what a wholesome comment
Yes, support and love IS everything. If you don’t have it, life is a struggle!! My dad would not of supported me like her parents. His stance would be: you did this to yourself.
@@canadasweetie ..Yes same here. I never had love nor support from my alcoholic parent either. My parent was extremely abusive to me & wouldn't care if this had happened to me. This probably would've made my parent very happy because a few times as a child my parent attempted to kill me.
But God in Jesus Christ is my anchor & savior in this life. 🙏
This girl is very fortunate to have loving supportive parents. 💝
Frances Lovato : i totally understand. This girl is lucky. Support and love is everything to get through a hard time.
@@canadasweetie Yes, very true. 💝🌟
Saddest part of this story is the fact that the person she did this over has probably moved on with his life with college, marriage etc and she’s been through all this trauma. In my mind, don’t ever do for others what they wouldn’t do for you.
Indeed.
No guy is ever worth wasting your life away through self-sabotage. Keep counting the things you are grateful for when it gets tough. Talk to someone about your feelings. In every situation, you are luckier than someone else. Seek solutions that will help you out, for a temporary problem.
Blaming the boyfriend not gonna make her any smarter
@O'Shea J I agree with you. You're not responsible for other peoples happiness
@O'Shea J well said. He is absolutely not responsible if she acted as a major idiot.
I am really impressed at her strength in continuing forward honestly. I don’t think I’d want to be alive if I had done this to myself.
I’d rather just die than be disfigured on that level. She’s both strong and blessed by God.
I have listened to Katie's story many times. Today, in July 2021, I have noticed for the first time that from early childhood she had herself under extreme pressure. In this report her mother says, of her daughter's high school experience, "She had to have that 4.0. " This represents perfectionism. And too much self inflicted pressure. In my opinion, this level of perfectionism in the approach of an elementary or high school student, should be taken as a strong warning. I understand that Katie's parents are doing their absolute best now. It is obvious that they have always cared about their daughter. I just believe that there could be a connection between perfectionistic, high pressure behavior, and suicide attempts. There is this "if it is not good enough I'll just end it" attitude which can be really dangerous. Obviously her parents are great...they are wonderful. I would just ask the parents and family members of over-achieving, perfectionistic students, to guide their child in the direction of easing up on themselves. 3.9 grade average might be good enough. A few losses on the soccer field...acceptable. Just like yourself and accept yourself, as you are.
Agree, she was on course for some real pain. With no coping skills
Having a gun around doesn't seem to have done her any favors either. I wonder how many life-threatening situations her parents actually experienced that legitimize having that easy-out laying around?
As an extreme perfectionist, I totally agree. I’m very hard on myself and I’ve had many suicidal ideations too. I’ve learnt to let loose.
Agree. Got into severe depression the moment i started struggling for the first time. Still have to deal with it.
Oh God, this is hard to read. Perfectionists generally feel a deep sense of regret over their mistakes. I cannot fathom the intense regret this lady went through.
People keep saying that she was beautiful as if it beauty was the most important thing she lost that day.
This.
Agreed
It was.
It's how superficial people are especially now.
She lost her face, it just happen to be beautiful.
Nowadays we are so used to judging people faces, whether they are pretty, whether they are perfect...until we actually forgot the functions of a face. With a face, we can see, we can breathe, smile, eat, hear... but when Katie lost her face she can barely even talk. If you have a functional body, it is perfect enough. But most importantly, love yourself for who you are, and what anybody else say will be nothing to you. ❤
blinkoncearmy _ you put so eloquently, the words that I was trying to find. Sadly in society, functional is often not judged as enough. We are all humans with feelings.
beautifully put.
Absolutely true
Amen
ONCE an ARMY, always an ARMY, perfectly put. Love yourself first!
I am 70 years old. My first "love" dumped me at 20 years old because of our different religions. I was crushed. She was Jewish, I was Protestant. Her family didn't approve of that difference and she subsequently was pressured into dumping me. Hit me very hard but I was fortunate enough to be able to rationalize about what had happened and that it wasn't my fault. She found her "Jewish prince" and married him in 1976. He didn't love her, he cheated on her multiple times through the years, something I wouldn't have ever done. They divorced at some point. Sad.
When I was in high school, my high school sweetheart & I broke up in our junior year. I was devastated and cried for half a year and took years to actually get over it. It shadowed a lot of my young years. After the break up, I had to endure seeing him with the other girl on a daily basis as we went to the same school. He ended up taking her to the prom I’d already purchased the dress for, as we broke up the month before prom. People who knew me asked my Mom what was wrong as I’d changed from a happy, always smiling, confident girl, to a shadow of myself. I hid in our closet to cry constantly. I never thought of taking my own life, but if God had said that I’d be dying soon, I wouldn’t have flinched. I went thru the rest of my high school years acting as if I was fine, hiding behind being a varsity song leader, an active social life, and other boys(I always had dates) whom I resented because they weren’t the boy I loved. I was really a very sad girl. My poor Mom, I never stopped to notice that my pain was hers; I was too absorbed in my own woes. Only now, as a mother, do I realize that you can’t always fix what hurts your child, and that is very painful. Anyway, I’m now 74, have lived a wonderful life mostly with the love of my life, my husband. If I could tell my 16 & 17 yr old self anything, it would be to stop wasting so much time crying, enjoy the people that love you, and the boys that want to be around you. I wasted so many days. In retrospect, it was all but a drop in the bucket of my life!
Thank you for sharing ❤
You are lucky you were confident and had a social life and dated when you were young. I was extremely shy and had social anxiety when I was in my teens which prevented me from making friends let alone dating. It was awful.
You say you were sad but you were lucky you got to experience all that when you were young. That you had boys interested in you and had a social life. It's much better then living with shyness and social anxiety which prevents you from enjoying and experiencing things as a teenager
Someday, I’d love to hear her giving a TED Talk when her speech & condition gets improved. She’s a beautiful soul and so strong. Her story is really really extreme and inspirational. Hope she gets well soon.
I agree, and if she has physical therapy that works well she might be back to 80-90% of what she was
@@kodguerrero That's impossible, more like 20%, speech therapy can't fix structural issues. Speech therapy can only help you attain the best you can be with what you already got. She suffered major permanent damage to her mouth.
If you take a look at her CT scan you'll see both her lower and upper jaws were almost completely destroyed, including her tongue. You can rebuild the jaws to some extent, but you cannot rebuild the tongue, and the tongue is an essential mechanism for us humans to make words out of sounds.
@@floatingchimney Oh, I was more thinking about the rest of the body aside from the face.... Her body is atrophied from being in bed so long plus nerve damage from having a bullet pass near the brain/spine. It'm not sure how much is her body and how much is her mind
That may actually happen! She wants to be a counselor or public speaker to help other people.
@Jose Carreras So very true.
“For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother’s womb.
I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.
My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place,
when I was woven together in the depths of the earth.
Your eyes saw my unformed body;
all the days ordained for me were written in your book
before one of them came to be.
How precious to me are your thoughts, a God!” Psalm 139:13-17
Poor girl she is so beautiful it's heartbreaking. I hope she gets better soon and live a happy life.
Would it be as 'heartbreaking' if she had been a homely, fat girl?
She was so beautiful.
@@LuLu-oc4ke yes
@@LuLu-oc4ke he said she IS so beautiful. Not WAS so beautiful.
Na she WAS beautiful x
I'm glad so many people pulled together to give her another chance at a full life. for everyone out there going through a hard time, try to remember that it will pass + lots of people (even people who don't know you personally) care about you 💛
I'd like to see an update on this girl, what's she doing now and how she's getting along.
Freddie Mercury 😂😂😂 you’re fucked up, but funny
@@rikkalanderson708 i guess that's funny for a 10 year old
@@freddiemercury9438 crazy thing is . She shot herself and ended up with how she looks today but u were actually born ugly my good sir .
What update she lives like vegetable
He literally just asked for a fucking update on what she’s doing today, why do you guys have to be assholes?
I had a neighbor when I was growing up who killed himself when his girlfriend broke up with him. He had so much going for him. It's so sad. He was 17.
Love kills
@@maroontarabyn6697 love doesn't kill people kill
What happened to her?
my best friend commited suicide at 17 in 1983 im 56 now he is still 17
it’s hard at that age to be able to rationalize… your love feelings are so so strong you truly believe you can’t live without them. I was like it over boyfriends when I was younger but completely grew out of it.
The dedication and love of the medical team brings tears to my eyes. Making it happen!
We all make mistakes - most of us are lucky and don’t end up paying for the rest of our lives. Her family is amazing, as is her resilience.
Hello how are you doing?
Calling her suicide attempt "mistake" seems like a big understatement. Better described as a very deliberate and desperate act of a very emotionally unstable young woman. Very sad.
@@treasuretrovel3816 - well, sometimes mistakes are small, like we rear end somebody in a parking lot. Sometimes mistakes are huge, and they alter our lives and the lives of others forever.
@@treasuretrovel3816she made a mistake. Don't judge her harshly. You are human too and can end up making a big mistake. You are not God.
Pointing out that her attempt at suicide was deliberate is not judging her harshly just simply pointing out a fact. @@Hurt-to-Healing
Can't even imagine what her parents were going through when they first found their daughter after the gun shot wound. So traumatic.
She had shoot on her face or where???
I feel even worse for the brother who had to see it first. But yeah.
As a mother, I can honestly say I would have been sick over it. I wonder how she is doing today?
You're never the same after seeing something like that. My sis used a hand gun, not a shot gun, so it was a lot less horrifying... but the awful thing about a suicide by gun is that it happens SO FAST... you have no time to process what you're seeing. Literally just 'boom'... and she's gone.
@@maryellenthompson8261 So true. But apparently she didn’t get to see her face, since Katie’s brother dragged the mom immediately out. She had time to only see the legs. Such a smart and caring young man.
My heart broke. I need to count my blessings every minute
This is so heartbreaking. its so crazy how you can be one decision away from a completely different life.
Or no life at all.
Right? What a major change. 😢
This really is the lesson of all lessons and so hard to teach young people - that a single decision can, will and does change the entire course of your life forever.
Katie--thank you so much for sharing your story. I shared your story with my no 14.5 y/o daughter about a year ago, and I will share it with her again. I never want my daughter to feel that ANY relationship, or any other issue in life, is worth committing suicide. She also had step-sister that successfully committed suicide at 17 (my daughter was 10 at the time, so it was in 2018) by gun-shot--her dad's gun. It was horrific. I can't imagine whether it's better to survive something like that or not--but YOU have shown such bravery in sharing your story and I can't thank you enough
Everyone saying it’s stupid to take your life over a breakup is missing their own point. People usually do NOT think life is over after a breakup, and for that to be her breaking point it’s clear that there were other things going on with her mentally. People who are not either depressed, emotionally unstable or otherwise emotionally distraught would not choose that option. Don’t think she gave up her life over something so simple
KAYLA DELVECHIO Most teenagers who think they're madly in love think it's the end of the world sometimes when they have a break-up. I remember my son being very upset and I'd tell him. Trust me, in a little while this won't be a blip on your radar. He trusted in my experience. I'm sure she was very young and immature. Maybe felt she had no one to turn to or her parents wouldn't understand. It's a horrific way to learn life lessons. That break-ups happen to everyone and are not the end of the world.
gojobuddy I’m not trying to say a breakup isn’t entirely heartbreaking and a terrible experience. But for someone to put their entire life’s value into one person is not healthy and might indicate that other things may be going on, or rather, may be missing in a persons life.
Rata 4U Unfortunately, I have had similar experiences, but I’ve come to realize that that kind of love is closer to obsession. While pain is pain, if a doctor can name some of what is fueling the intensity of that pain it would be a good thing. It’s not a crazy decision but it’s not a decision a mentally and emotionally stable person would make.
KAYLA DELVECHIO
She was being an idiot for that.
KAYLA DELVECHIO I read in another report she had a surgery to remove a part of her brain because of high-pressure in it .... She doesn't have all her consciousness anymore and that....they don't speak about it.
I feel really bad for her brother... I hope they all heal from this experience.
Katie, your alive for a reason! And ur gratitude towards having a second chance at life speaks a lot about who u r. I can not even imagine what this is like for you and ur family. You have truly inspired me! God loves you so much and wants to use in so many ways to help the broken! What an inspiration! God bless you and ur family!
Nayer megalli lol yeah god loved her so much that he let her shoot herself in the fucking head. Fuck your piece of shit god
God can go fuck himself
MANY WILL SEE THIS VIDEO AND WILL GIVE THEM HOPE TO NEVER LOSE HOPE===GOD AND CHRIST ARE THE ANSWER. NEVER LOSE HOPE
Such a beautiful girl before this tragedy. Heartbreak is painful, but it's not worth this devastation. If only she'd had someone to talk to, so she could get through it, she could've led a normal life rather than go through this trauma.
I'm glad she's rebuilding, not only her face, but her life.
Hello how’re you doing?
@@Godwinpounds4333😂
cute face but overweight
I'd think she had people to talk to, she just chose to not talk to anyone.
She was so lucky that everyone surrounded her with love from her parents to the docters. Really heartwarming during the video
With all she is living now she said « I’m glad to have another chance » she is still positive and she have a beautiful soul.
She’s positive cos she can’t see her new face. She’s under the illusion that it looks nice.
The beauty of a person is not judged by looks it is the heart and soul that makes a person beautiful.
yes but beauty helps.. rather you have a good loning partner or an ugly one ?
paul fox
Who made that rule?
@@shawbros the world of flavor.
@@souhailla10
Sorry, that question was meant for paul fox.
Yes, but all the people outside her family don't see the heart and soul. They only see what's on the outside. What they see is someone with virtually no face which is shocking and upsetting to the average person. I bet you'd want help in her place.
The perseverance to overcome so much proves just how precious her life is. I wish her and her family continued healing for this brave, beautiful woman.
I put a gun in my mouth and pulled the trigger at the age of 58. Depression like any other disease can be fatal. My injuries are not a severe but it did take 5 surgeries to get my face functional again.. I thank God and give him the glory for my second chance. God blessed you dear and your path forward will be to help others not get to that point, as is mine.
Another reason not to have a gun
@@jimbutler1189 Yeah because people totally can't find other ways to end their lives.
Nice job missing the point.
Thank you for your courage in sharing what must be hard.
@@jimbutler1189 The suicide rate in japan/europe must have suddenly dropped to zero because of this genius
@@omnacky lol ikr?
Congratulations to Cleveland clinic team and best wishes to patient and family! Great result and hope for many people!
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It’s just so hard to look at her, poor baby. Rock solid parents, for sure.
Agreed
Yes, it's heartbreaking to see an innocent girl put through such an ordeal in life. Sometimes God is cruel...
@@vishnus.p.4007 God didn’t do that. It’s the absence of God that did that, no criticizing her or her parents. We know if we were born in heaven, the just as the likes of Satan would, some of us would be bad. God put new life here, in an imperfect world, so that those who merely accept him can have a glorious life in Heaven, and those who don’t accept him simply pass on, gone.
Jesus, the first born, allowed all those terrible things to be done to Him, physical, emotional, pain and mental anguish, to be fair. He’s asking us to endure this world whatever comes, and don’t turn your back on God, just as He would not, even with all that was done to Him. God didn’t interfere on Christs behalf, because it would be cruel to all those he doesn’t choose to step in on. When He does intervene, he must do it “as a thief,” because if He makes a big deal of it, He will cause many more to feel abandoned. Please, if you do not want everlasting life with God, don’t try to take some with you, by doing you best to influence. With all the evil that harms people on earth, try not to lead others to the ultimate evil, eternity without them there with God.
@@tobyihli9470 Yes, i agree with that. Might be like that..
@@tobyihli9470 well said. 100% 👍
A super nice attractive girl in my junior class had an extremely difficult breakup in spring and had to drop out and seek help. She came back our senior year and we shared a street locker (due to school overcrowding) and became close besties. I helped her see there are nice guys still out there waiting for her. She went on to live a rich rewarding life. As well did I. We saw each other for the first time since high school at our 50th reunion. We sat alone and caught up on each other’s lives. It was awesome!
One mistake can change life for ever.
Agree completely. When I was 9 I passed every water fountain thinking I need a drink but I was young and trying to stay with my friends less than an hr later I had a life massive stroke🤕. If I would've stopped and drank I'm positive this wouldn't have happened.
It really can. Life from primordial slime is a joke; That is to say that all of this experience of life and everything in it is pointless-honestly I don’t believe in atheist; meaning nobody is truly at their core truly an atheist-99% of the time is because someone is offended at God, and deceive themselves into thinking all they have to do is just believe that he’s not real or that he is some concoction of some fantastical thing that’s cool to think about-it (atheism) really is just a joke with all due respect anyone’s right to think whatever,and when you think about it, it’s psychological suicide at best.
I have to correct myself-41& on dialysis for over 10 years now out of nowhere, and super exhausted feeling like really? But then I see this. Thank God whatever state were in the somebody is definitely going through through, has gone through or did not make it through much worse.
@K O Then of a certainty, fellow human, you’ve never* heard of the very real and one true God of the Bible. Now if you really wanna know about Him, I’m too happy to have dialogue with you- but if you’re already intent on mocking or criticizing that faith , please don’t bother... the vapid angry vitriolic profile is just utterly trite and painfully boring (not to mention, very telling). Otherwise, much live and I’m all to honored to tell someone about the mighty & loving ( yes, loving) God who loves me perfectly night and day and through sand in spite of all things.
❤️cheerio❤️
1+0.6= 0.7
There's no sign of successful here.
Truer words have never been spoken
The saddest part about this is that she did this to herself wow.
@@aisha6984 shes not dumb, she probably or most-likely had mental health issue/s.
There are worse reactions to people that have been dumped, there was this one boy in my school who received a letter from his gf saying that he was being dumped, i have no idea what he had been going through in his life but the fact he jumped out a 3 storey building into wet CEMENT told me that he had most likely been going through ALOT. (i was in year7 when i saw him commit suicide) i've had nightmares
@FROY take care bud. I hope you survive to live a better life ❤️
@FROY No.. idk how to say this and I'm not qualified for this but you gotta Live bud ❤️..
..you got this life no one knows how, but you can enjoy it.. Ik times have been every upsetting recently but maybe you can find joy in little things.. like gardening or drawing or nature.. idk..
I'm not qualified for this but I really need you to have some hope bud ❤️ we're in this together ❤️
ash u obviously don’t know how sick people are and how they feel it isn’t just about that so shut up you stupid kid there are people who truly struggle out their mentally and with there self and have problems with living and dealing with things and yeah it’s bad, but how much do you think she regrets it now, and instead of supporting her being able to live and get help you’d rather just pick apart why she did it? Go f*ck yourself
@FROY lol. I tried to help idk. Take care.
An amazing surgery that can help a grievously injured person regain her life. I would love to see an update so we can see how Katie is doing now, two years after this video was made. I hope she has gained all she wanted from the face transplant.
Me too...
My first year at college I was in the library doing research in the microfilm collection when a storm dropped a couple of F3 tornadoes an hour away and was heading straight for us. Everybody in the library was "evacuated" to basement levels to ride out the danger, and I just roamed among the shelves some X floors underground and spotted a book titled something like "Gunshot Wound Surgery". It intrigued me, and even though it was quite graphic I was AMAZED at what reconstructive surgery could accomplish for such disastrously traumatic destruction. At the time, transplanting a face was still decades in the future. That book kept my attention for the duration of our "evacuation". And, no, I did not decide in that moment to become a plastic surgeon. Can't sew worth a diddley-doo.
@@merriemisfit8406 Interesting
Hats off to the wonderful people that took part in this miracle, it was truly a team effort. Thank you.
Go Katie! So happy for you and your family that you survived. You are important and your life has meaning.
This is exactly what true love is capable of. The surgeons loved working with her to better their experience and skill and give her the opportunity to be herself again. Her family and friends were surrounding her with all their love and support and she thrived!
Bless her and everyone who helped this girl.
God Bless you to the family that allowed the face of their lost child to be transplanted.”I don’t know how she will help people” The moment this journey began everyone is learning…always try to make the good come out of the bad…thank you Katie for taking this journey for humanity
I think it’s amazing how she can come through this and be able to say “life is beautiful “! God Bless her.
Hello how’re you doing?
Bless her, for being so patient. For coming out on the other side as a new woman.
I would never go as far as to try to end my life over a broken relationship...but it’s remarkable how far the medical field has come to restored Katie’s life...kudos to the doctors!! Bless you Katie and her loving parents.
That haven't yet. Try to pay attention
Well you are extremely blessed with good mental health. Or your a narcissist incapable of putting others before yourself..either way, this girl may have been mentally weak at one point, but God has blessed her with strength incomprehensible to most.
This same thing happened to a buddy of mine. I can't imagine the torment to know that you even failed at the one thing you were looking to set yourself free. The good news is we still have him and he has a whole new outlook on life.
Over a boy? A young lady who had her whole life ahead of her
I don't know about Katie's circumstances; but sometimes, something as simple as "a boy" can be the straw that breaks the camel's back.
Lianna Simmons she was depressed. When you’re depressed very small problems like heartbreak can destroy you and bring you down.
Oh, honey. It is never "just" something. 🤦🏻♀️
She obviously had underlying mental health issues. It wasn’t just because of a boy.
Medusa Saurus exactly. Most people in the comment section seem to forget about that
I am in love with the dedication of these Doctors.
The dad mentioned it was over a break up, but I'm sure there's other factors that contributed to her trying to take her life.
It could have been the stress of school and feeling like she wasn't living up to expectations. It could have been facing the reality of growing up and what that means. It could have been tense friendships, friends going through their own stresses, etc.
A bunch of little things add up and feel like a huge weight. Mental illness is no joke. One little thing, even if it's dropping a pen, can set you off the deep end.
I hope that she was able to heal emotionally too. I commend her for battling physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually.
Teenagers have very strong emotions, too.
This comment is gold.
Very good comment. Take care everyone
What a well put comment from someone who understands it's usually not as simple as a single variable.
In some cases it's like you said; little weights that stack on top until it builds up to a mountain your shoulders. This can be over a period of 50 years or just 5 months. Your average person can shake these weights off so they don't build but for a person struggling with depression- these weights are chained to them and it's much harder to cut a chain.
Sometimes there isn't even a catalyst that causes it and it can just be a complete change in brain chemistry. In these cases it takes up your whole life. You can feel fine one day and -BAM- the next 6 months you're in a depression. No cause, nobody dying, nothing going wrong, no breakups. Just. Bam.
For others in disbelief that depression can exist without causal factors:
Just to show an example of how REAL Depression is: Imbalances of the same three neurotransmitters that cause depression also cause Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, fibromyalgia, schizophrenia, etc. if unbalanced in certain ways.
I recently read that when we cry we don’t cry for what we think we’re crying; but for things before that.
She was so beautuful and is strong. I don't think I could live life like that. Even after a face translpant
I’d rather be dead. Not because of the physical look, but the mental part I couldn’t handle.
@@Papa-Anvil
It's being a constant burden on others that would do it for me. Nope! Put me back in rotation.
She wasnt strong at all when a break up is life ending for her. Sorry but its just facts
@@str1kerxx LoL facts excuse
Good thing you’re not her. She’s stronger than you because clearly she’s interested in moving on and recovering
Omg. I cried during this video. This is so traumatic. I couldn't imagine going through what she went through. What an angel heart. God bless you.
Thank you! What an inspiring story of teamwork, love, compassion and caring for someone in need.. Parents that are through the roof!!
This is remarkable. As a parent I cannot imagine going through this with my son. It's gotta be incredibly difficult.
We need to be remained of how precious life is by incredible people like Katie, she is, without doubt, a beautiful, gorgeous and wonderful person. I feel so guilty because I often moan and bitch about the difficulties life has put on my path, but they are nothing compared to what Katie has endured. My heart goes out to her, she was heartbroken and made a silly decision, which has cost her great pain and suffering beyond what anybody can imagine and she certainly did not deserve it. I wish her love, peace, happiness and also god bless all the people, doctors, nurses, and medical team who did so much to help her. People can be truly wonderful when they come together to help others.
She was beautiful. What a terribly sad story. I am glad that she survived and is able to try to rebuild her life, but damn, what a beautiful face to ruin.
the horrible thing is that she survived to her suicide to live like that
One has to wonder, who would want to live like that! Her poor parents.
@@MarilynLoveYou She insists that she hadn't even planned on killing herself but that just impulsively shot herself in the face. So she makes it sound as if she has trouble controlling her emotional impulses.
Im not glad she was forced to continue living after that. Whoooo would choose that. She wasnt given a choice.
where is the boyfriendP
Teenagers are compulsive. Emotions run high at that age. I really wish that teens could see not only her example but the many others who had that moment, acted on it and then had to go through the unimaginable. Yet are thankful that they survived.
My respect to the team of experts,nothing but passion could make it possible 💜💜💜
I have 2 daughters and I can't stop crying. God bless you Katie your beautiful family, the donor and the heroic team of Angels who saved you. Love you kiddo : )
She was so beautiful. Horrible history :(
Ya its not so hurtful if the person shooting themselves is ugly looking
ssnader a I didn't say that. This is an horrible history because she is suffering since 3 years. And nobody deserve that.
Why would she even shoot herself in the face 😡😡😡. Like u said she looked soooooooo beautiful, but now 😢😢😢 I feel absolutely devastated
Maybe she had a big depression and she lost her control. We don't know that part. But it's clear to understand she's regretful and now she's trying to make her life beautiful. Now she have a stamina. We can't blame anyone so easy for their past mistakes.
Betül Karademir but she's not beautiful like she was before why isn't she like the way she was before Betul
Just imagine the boy she destroyed herself over is probably living his best life. Its NEVER that serious... my god
But to her it was so
Or maybe the poor boy is living with a lot of guilt.
Exactly....most times suicide is a permanent solution for a temporary situation
@Savagegent777
That was not love.
@dachshunds channel he’d feel guilty bc he broke her heart. he didn’t know this is would happen so of course he’d blame himself. he unintentionally caused her a lot of pain and she didn’t wanna feel it anymore
I wonder how the ex that broke her heart is doing, how this affected him as well..
Edna Isabel seriously.. they were just kids. He very well might have done nothing wrong and struggled with the breakup but she clearly had underlying mental health issues before the breakup and maybe that was just the straw that broke the camels back
WhiteN Proud yup he moved on like nothing happened. Can’t help if girl act crazy when you break up with them cus they too needy and overwhelming .
He didn't give her a gun, he didn't pull the trigger, so why should he feel guilty?
Andrey Teslenko I didn't say anything about feeling guilty, i just think i would feel weird as fuck, really fucking weird, I was worried about the guy, OBVIOUSLY it's NOT his fault but still, he was her 'reason' for doing this
Edna Isabel yeah at end of the day she did it her self. She was being dumb.
What a beautiful outcome to such a tragic day. What a precious gift from the donor and her family.
Now when ever i get suicidal thoughts i will look at her and pray for her.
salman moody why would u do suicide its sin be thankful for what u have.
Shut the fuck up about sin. Some people are just not happy for whatever reason. Just appreciate life and the fact you're not in her position
RubLox Facts
You should seek help *now*.
Feel better Salman
Awwww I really feel for her❤️ I'm so sorry she felt so horribly she wanted to take her own life. But, she's still here and I wish her the best life.
sam myy yes it was an irrational thought, caused by a temporary emotion. She would have in time moved through it. No human on earth is worth doing something like that to yourself as you are giving away your power to them. This is why we should never act on anything when feeling down as it's just your brain messing with you and it can lead to serious consequences as we see in this story. I really hope that she goes on and inspires others to not have this happen to them. Brave young woman.
I hope she will live happily ever after in any way she can find happiness 🙏
So many young people live hour to hour with their feelings or emotions. Poor Katy. But her family is amazing. That’s love right there. Prayers for her continued healing. She is a testimony to others❤
She's beautiful. I hope she have a better life ❤❤ stay strong Katie.
Ohhh...she’s very beautiful. She’s so lucky to have such a lovely family. Thank you “angel team” to replant face for her. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻❤️🌹
Her face came from a woman who died from an overdose. Andrea Schneider, 31.
Jamie Persaud How do you know?
Juustohöylä you can read the whole story on National Geographic „Katie’s face”. It’s very detailed and they also talk about Andrea, the donor :)
Juustohöylä it says here in this article www.google.com/amp/s/amp.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/true-stories/incredible-face-transplant-gives-woman-second-chance-at-life/news-story/8773e8f36eea44adbe40ab423d48070c
What an horror story :(
Thank you for letting us know who the donor was.
Amazing team work: Katie, parents, medical teams, councillors . Katie: live your new life and make a UA-cam career in telling your story and helping others. Best wishes.
Teaching children, youth to be strong and brave without giving in to quick emotional temper in the face of challenges is so important.
Plus not giving guns out with breakfast cereal would help for this not to happen so much
She was a teenager, teens aren’t always known for their great decision making, their brains literally aren’t fully developed yet. So much judgment in these comments.
Miraculous, I really hope she's able to live a full and happy life.
Steven Tritton 💋
What a horrible thing to say. She has the capability to relearn everything and as time goes on I'm sure her life will get much better and easier. She's still healing and has had many surgeries just so she could eat and talk. She's still recovering. I'm sure her parents are very happy to have her alive no matter what inconvenience it may seem like now. Stay strong!
gojobuddy you posted that under the wrong comment
Justme215 Thanks for the heads-up and I apologize to anyone if I offended them by replying to the wrong post and person.I was multi-tasking and must have messed up.
gojobuddy, To witness accidental offense and an apology in this forum is actually refreshing. It's a bona fide scroll of shame through most of this comment section.
It's sad 😢 but that's what depression can do many prayers too her God bless you ❤️ 😇❤️❤️
What a wonderful job from this team!!!! This young lady had a second chance in life!!!
Katie looks beautiful, all these caring doctors are amazing. Bravo to them all. Plus the unconditional love of her parents. God bless her. I hope her life moves forward to be everything she wants it to be.
@One Billion Caring Mums No, a break up is not a crime. it was her own decision to shoot herself
Please people don't harm your body.....our body is our temple......we only get one life to live.....keep patience & trust God.
god ain't real dumb ass
+John Boona ' people like you make me sick'
@@incognito-p9c if you don't believe in him, fine. That's your problem. But don't go around calling people dumbasses for their beliefs.
@@jocelynligon4936 god is a fictional character created by some dude in his mom's basement dumbass. there's no god.
Life has been that painful John Boona?
She still is beautiful/ beauty is not of the eye but of the heart and mind. Peace love and light to her family , those who made this blessing a reality.
Dave Myers well said.
Dave Myers true
No she is not beside she is still suicidal
poor girl. She is beautiful now also.
She may still be mentally beautiful, but so horribly disfigured that there is no way to find her face beautiful anymore.
Heartbreaking 💔 story! I wish Katie & her family wellness! Although Katie is suffering great trauma, the trauma her family has overcome is amazing, & she is very fortunate to have such a supportive family!
Doctors did an amazing job, god bless them&this jung lady🙏much love to all💗
The donor was such a compassionate person. Even after their death, part of them and their good deed lives on. Please consider becoming an organ donor, it's such a gift.
Even giving blood is a miracle. My partner wouldn't be here without the blood donations of strangers. Even now I tear up at the thought of strangers saving my love's life. ❤
So nice to hear that there are people out there who donate their 100% their body
God bless the lady who was the donor and her family for giving their permission.
That's is so tragic yet beautiful!! The team at the hospital are amazing!! The parents love is pure n giving. What about a follow up?
I wish you all the joy and love in living a harmonious life Katie 🌹
This is amazing! This procedure has come me so far. I remember the first one. I’m so impressed here. She has every feature perfectly normal and her skin looks beautiful. Just amazing the work this team did 💫