{"id":4721,"date":"2025-06-14T09:56:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:56:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=4721"},"modified":"2025-06-14T09:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T09:56:19","slug":"firefighter-suffers-third-degree-burns-this-is-him-7-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=4721","title":{"rendered":"Firefighter suffers third-degree burns \u2013 this is him 7 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"154\"><strong data-start=\"97\" data-end=\"154\">Patrick Hardison\u2019s Incredible Face Transplant Journey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"156\" data-end=\"447\">In 2001, volunteer firefighter Patrick Hardison suffered devastating burns while rescuing someone from a house fire. He lost his ears, lips, most of his nose, eyelids, and suffered third-degree burns across his face and scalp. For years, he hid behind sunglasses, a cap, and prosthetic ears.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"449\" data-end=\"737\">Struggling with pain and public reactions, Patrick endured 71 surgeries, but still couldn\u2019t eat, laugh, or blink without pain. Hope came in 2015 when he underwent the most extensive face transplant ever performed, a 26-hour operation led by Dr. Eduardo D. Rodriguez at NYU Langone Health.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"739\" data-end=\"1013\">His donor was David Rodebaugh, a 26-year-old who died in a bike accident. David\u2019s mother chose to donate his face, giving Patrick a second chance at life. Despite a 50\/50 chance of survival, the surgery succeeded\u2014restoring Patrick\u2019s ability to blink, speak, and smile again.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1202\">Today, Patrick lives with renewed purpose, inspiring others with his story of resilience and hope. He continues to share his journey to show that it\u2019s never too late to rebuild your life.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1015\" data-end=\"1202\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Hardison\u2019s Incredible Face Transplant Journey In 2001, volunteer firefighter Patrick Hardison suffered devastating burns while rescuing someone from a house fire. He lost his ears, lips, most of his nose, eyelids, and suffered third-degree burns across his face and scalp. For years, he hid behind sunglasses, a cap, and prosthetic ears. Struggling with pain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/albotips.com\/?p=4721\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Firefighter suffers third-degree burns \u2013 this is him 7 years later&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4721"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4723,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4721\/revisions\/4723"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/albotips.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}