Quite The Looker

I admit, you had me at "Oregon Woman Receives Prosthetic Face After Shotgun Trauma", and while you can read all about the whole, touching procedure at The Oregonian, I found something very wrong with this tale.

Back in 1999, an accidental shotgun blast totally wrecked 16-year-old Chrissy Steltz's face. Her then-boyfriend unintentionally shot her in the face at a party (and how many times have we heard that one), destroying her nose and leaving her blind. After Steltz's son was born last year, she decided to receive a facial prosthesis so her "little boy can grow up looking at a regular mom." More than a decade later, Steltz was fitted for the custom prosthetic face that allows her to go out in public without wearing her usual cloth facial mask.

In addition to building the prosthesis, which took four days to mold, Steltz had to first undergo surgery that would allow her to hold the new face in place. She underwent four surgeries to prepare her face for the prosthesis. Last September, a nasal opening was cut where she had none. And in February, eight screwlike implants were drilled into bones above and below her eye sockets, allowing the prosthesis to snap into place and held by tiny magnets.

Did you catch it? Yeah, "After Steltz's son was born last year, she decided to receive a facial prosthesis so her 'little boy can grow up looking at a regular mom'. " That means that somebody - consciously and deliberately - made the decision to fuck Chrissy Steltz. That lucky fella happens to be blind, because, well...I'm not going to spell it out for you, but that's the lucky part. I'm sure they're both decent folk, and they've overcome their share of difficulties, but if I was blind - no, blind and living in Oregon - even then would I not reduce myself to banging a faceless woman. Not even if she was built like Kelly Brook.