Utah Doctors Fight
To Restore
Handiwork of God
SALT LAKE CITY, OP — Ears,
eyelids, eyebrows and scalp
stripped away, a 12-year-old farm
girl depends for her future on a
fight by doctors to restore, as they
see it, the handiwork of Gpd.
Chiystine Hayes of Blackfoot,
Idaho, was mutilated when a po
tato combine seized her swinging
pony tail during harvest work
Monday.
A Blackfoot doctor kept her
alive, and after telephoned in
structions from Latter-Day Saints
Hospital here, preserved the
ripped-off skin in a gallon of salt
solution.
Christine and her scalp were
flown to the hospital. In a 6V&
hour operation, the ears, upper
and lower right eyelids and eye
brows were removed from the
scalp and attached to her abdo
men.
Doctors hope the rich abdominal
blood will nourish them until
they can be grafted back in place.
In addition, skin from the ab
domen was grafted to her face
and neck during the long opera
tion.
The combine stripped Chris
tine’s head to the bone. Before
the scalp can be restored, hospital
officals said, the plastic surgeon
will have to peel away a thin
section of skull so that the skin
will have a surface to which it
can adhere.
Hospital Administrator Clar
ence E. Ernnacott, releasing de
tails of the operation, (said: “The
surgeon took a gamble that it
might possibly work. In the total
reconstruction of the girl’s face,
it could be a marvelous accom
plishment because no one can
make an ear like God.”
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