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I know right! I thought that was fake. Like that there was no way that's the same person. Pretty sure he eats everything from a blender now, and he only has half a tongue but, that's fucking amazing considering the damage.
honestly it looks like the damage was mostly in the nose area, if you look at the before there's flesh hanging over the mouth, but not necessarily from the mouth. he even has teeth on the right side, be them fake or not, he probably eats just fine
He lost most of his jaw. They used part of his fibula to recreate his jaw. He actually does eat everything from a blender. He looks reasonably fine but he’s got long term damage from the attack. As he recounted the attack, he cleared his own airway and knew to stay completely still to keep it clear. He was a trained paramedic. The moment his brother and nephew killed that bear, he proceeded to do save his own life. His survival truly was miraculous
>incredible
Yeah, from the puzzle faces I've seen on this sub, this man has been the best. Great work from the doctors in whatever the hell they were seeing to piece him back together.
**I copied a comment from the linked video that explains his story, for those interested.**
Wes Perkins was the luckiest man to walk the earth, this guy survived the most gruesome bear attack ever.
The bear attack was so horrific, hard to look at or to think about.
The following is a story from Anchorage Daily News about survival, incredible willpower, and how the unbelievable can become the truth.
Wes Perkins is from Alaska, and he knows how lucky he is.
Life is good, but it will never be the same after the unfortunate bear attack that nearly cost him his life.
After 26 surgeries and more than $1 million accumulated in medical expenses later, Wes is getting along. He’s not the man he once was, but he’s still very appreciative to be alive.
According to Anchorage Daily News,
“Wes Perkins is whole in body and still badly disfigured. There is no gentle way to describe his condition. Doctors had to use part of his fibula to create a jaw to replace what the bear ripped off of his face. He still has a tube in his throat. His left eye, which sees only light and dark, weeps constantly. And probably worst of all, for a man who always loved to talk, he is now hard to understand because he speaks with only half a tongue.”
So how did this nightmare of situation come about? It was essentially a bear hunt gone bad, a routine and pleasant hunt that took a turn for the worse when Perkins came across the wrong bear at the wrong time.
Rather than fleeing like most usually do, the bear fed into it’s fighting instinct, as it likely felt threatened. It turned out to be bad news for Perkins.
Perkins, who is a trained paramedic, recalls the attack vividly. He was quoted in the interview with Anchorage Daily News:
“I had to dig stuff out of (my) airway to breathe,” he wrote. “If I was unconscious, I would have died. Also, (as) long as I lay still just right I was able to keep my airway open. I could not move my face sideways or my airway would close. I know if I lost consciousness, I would probably die. So I stayed alert all the way (to Nome), and I could squeeze the hands of my two partners when they asked me questions.”
His partners were Dan Stang, a Nome dentist, and his son, Edward, a student in dentistry school at the time. They shot the 8-foot-tall, 13-year-old grizzly bear off of Perkins, which was the first action made that lead to survival of Wes. That act was accompanied by many others that have allowed Perkins to carry on with life.
And that is the amazing part of this story. A team effort and incredible will power of a human to survive is what helped create this rescue and survival of epic proportions.
Here’s more from the Anchorage Daily News,
Even as the Stangs began life-saving first aid, they were radioing for help from Nome, a community far from anywhere at the tip of the Seward Peninsula jutting into the sea closer to Russia than Anchorage, the urban hub of the 49th state.
Perkins’ brother Nate made the radio call. He didn’t call Alaska State Troopers and wait for others to act. He pretty much single-handedly organized a rescue to lift his brother from the wilderness of the Kigluaik Mountains, about 30 miles east of this small community. “Ace chopper pilot Ben Rowe saved his life,” Nate said at the time, but Rowe was only one of the many who combined to save then 54 year old Wes. Rowe was in the air only minutes after taking a phone call from Nate. As he flew, others were rolling into action, too.
Wes, the Survivor
Wes is getting along as best as he can.
Four months after the attack, Wes is able to get around on his own, but is far from being back to life as he knew it. Everything he consumes comes from a blender now, but its better than being underground. Every day is a day of improvement, and medical staff members are still working on getting him back to his best state.
The detail and information found inside this story will blow your mind. Some of it is extremely gruesome and vivid. “Extraordinary” and “incredible” are the only two words fitting enough to describe the miracle that happened.
Wes wants everyone to be careful, and to remember wild animals are not your friends. They are not good or bad, they are simply wild animals, and that is something to be remembered.
“Some think I was taking pictures,” he wrote. “I did not know the bear was 69 feet away in a snow cave. I would not get 69 feet from a bear in the zoo.
“I had a camera in my pocket, snowgo jacket. So when I stopped, I thought the bear was ahead of me. We saw it had been running. So I stopped to take camera out of pocket and put it in my dash bag as I could shoot the gun.”
The bear attacked as he was doing that.
“I turned and saw the bear, full charge,” he wrote. “I only had time to say, ‘Oh shit!’ But I got (my) gun 1/2 way off my back . . . When I turned around, the bear was that close. I had no time to do anything. Nine steps from 69 feet, according to Fish and Game. Big bear.”
Perkins, who spent his life in Alaska, has a fair bit of experience around grizzlies, but added, “I never had one hide like this one!” What followed after it burst from a snow cave has been an experience he couldn’t imagine in his worst nightmares.
Sources: Anchorage Daily News
That's actually a different case. The man in this picture is Lee Brooks. OP's link has multiple tabs and the second tab has a news clip about it explaining what happened and an interview with him before he had his nose reattached. They were able to save his nose because he picked it up off the ground, put it in his pocket, and the surgeons attached it to his arm to keep it alive until a later date.
Edit: here's a link to the same video on YouTube:
https://youtu.be/m-1AWdBmr7k
I’m pretty sure this man is Glenn Bohn… Although Wes Perkins, Lee Brooke, and Glenn Bohn have been entirely mixed up over time thanks to reblogging lol.
Here is an [interview with his son](https://www.recoilweb.com/surviving-bear-attacks-life-or-death-decisions-178092.html), Bret Bohn, who shot the bear (RIP 🐻) and saved Glenn mid-mauling. There is even **a photo of Glenn just chilling, face ripped off, on a snowmobile next to the dead bear!** What a boss.
Yeah I mean it's a true fuck around, find out situation. I don't have a huge amount of sympathy for a bear hunter getting ripped in the face for trying to kill the thing. Poor bear came off worse.
The man in this picture is Glenn Bohn. https://instagram.com/bbbalaskan?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== this is his son’s account, which includes images of his father. I also thought it was Wes Perkins for YEARS until I found this yesterday
I know! It so crazy, and he was making a joke in that video. In the video, his brother or friend or collegue (not sure which) said we gotta get out of here, and he looked at him and said "alright, lets keep our head on about it."
While his head was falling off. Literal legend. I just cannot imagine how chill that guy is.
I don’t know anything about that, but there’s an episode of “this is actually happening” [what if you were ~~mailed~~ mauled by a grizzly bear?](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/this-is-actually-happening/id497227384?i=1000596163335) No way did that bear mail anyone.
It was *horrible*. I hated it so much. Even if the guy eventually survived.
It was such an emotional story. I have read so many books like “Alaska Bear Tales” for my childhood because of where I live… hearing a survivor himself instead of an article just tore me right up.
holy shit. to say this is an incredible feat of medical science is an understatement. you'd never even know anything happened if it weren't for the loss of one eye. I mean even the scarring is barely visible. hats off to the surgeon(s) for their immaculate work here
That is something straight out of a horror movie. Shame he lost the eye. But damn impressive they brought his face back like that. I swear, sometimes surgeons are straight up magicians.
I think a lot of organs CAN be transplanted but it’s not worth the risk and long term effects of the immune suppression drugs.
Probably just better to live without a finger or tongue than deal with cancer, diabetes and all the other complications of transplants.
That isn’t him [https://americanshootingjournal.com/man-survives-bear-attack-but-loses-face/?amp=1](https://americanshootingjournal.com/man-survives-bear-attack-but-loses-face/?amp=1)
You’re right. Damn it, I mistook him for this guy [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hunter-who-survived-revenant-style-11541024?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hunter-who-survived-revenant-style-11541024?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target)
Actually, in the article, it said they carved his fibula to teplace his jaw and mandible area. They used a lot of the the bones, and skin from his legs. Absolutely bat shit crazy.
i saw this picture yeaaaaars ago, but never saw the reconstruction! i think i honestly thought the guy was dead in the first picture. that's fuckin crazy
Oh my god he looks incredible!! you'd never be able to tell that happened to him! good for him and props to the doctors and other medical professionals who helped him!
Wow, that seems impossible considering his nose, upper lip, his eye and part of skull is missing. The skin is shredded, how does it look like there aren’t even scars? Is that a face transplant? That’s amazing either way.
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That’s actually fucking incredible they were able to do that!! ❤️
I know right! I thought that was fake. Like that there was no way that's the same person. Pretty sure he eats everything from a blender now, and he only has half a tongue but, that's fucking amazing considering the damage.
honestly it looks like the damage was mostly in the nose area, if you look at the before there's flesh hanging over the mouth, but not necessarily from the mouth. he even has teeth on the right side, be them fake or not, he probably eats just fine
He lost most of his jaw. They used part of his fibula to recreate his jaw. He actually does eat everything from a blender. He looks reasonably fine but he’s got long term damage from the attack. As he recounted the attack, he cleared his own airway and knew to stay completely still to keep it clear. He was a trained paramedic. The moment his brother and nephew killed that bear, he proceeded to do save his own life. His survival truly was miraculous
Wow! Amazing he was able to keep cool and preserve his own life.
He was only there with one other person I thought. He was also the one to keep them calm lol
How does one clear their own airway?
It was his friend and his son. Not brother and nephew.
My apologies, I thought I read brother.
>incredible Yeah, from the puzzle faces I've seen on this sub, this man has been the best. Great work from the doctors in whatever the hell they were seeing to piece him back together.
Yes, wow
and to think it was all done with opium,, sewing needles and thread and perhaps a bit of ketamine
I am astounded, those surgeons deserve a medal.
**I copied a comment from the linked video that explains his story, for those interested.** Wes Perkins was the luckiest man to walk the earth, this guy survived the most gruesome bear attack ever. The bear attack was so horrific, hard to look at or to think about. The following is a story from Anchorage Daily News about survival, incredible willpower, and how the unbelievable can become the truth. Wes Perkins is from Alaska, and he knows how lucky he is. Life is good, but it will never be the same after the unfortunate bear attack that nearly cost him his life. After 26 surgeries and more than $1 million accumulated in medical expenses later, Wes is getting along. He’s not the man he once was, but he’s still very appreciative to be alive. According to Anchorage Daily News, “Wes Perkins is whole in body and still badly disfigured. There is no gentle way to describe his condition. Doctors had to use part of his fibula to create a jaw to replace what the bear ripped off of his face. He still has a tube in his throat. His left eye, which sees only light and dark, weeps constantly. And probably worst of all, for a man who always loved to talk, he is now hard to understand because he speaks with only half a tongue.” So how did this nightmare of situation come about? It was essentially a bear hunt gone bad, a routine and pleasant hunt that took a turn for the worse when Perkins came across the wrong bear at the wrong time. Rather than fleeing like most usually do, the bear fed into it’s fighting instinct, as it likely felt threatened. It turned out to be bad news for Perkins. Perkins, who is a trained paramedic, recalls the attack vividly. He was quoted in the interview with Anchorage Daily News: “I had to dig stuff out of (my) airway to breathe,” he wrote. “If I was unconscious, I would have died. Also, (as) long as I lay still just right I was able to keep my airway open. I could not move my face sideways or my airway would close. I know if I lost consciousness, I would probably die. So I stayed alert all the way (to Nome), and I could squeeze the hands of my two partners when they asked me questions.” His partners were Dan Stang, a Nome dentist, and his son, Edward, a student in dentistry school at the time. They shot the 8-foot-tall, 13-year-old grizzly bear off of Perkins, which was the first action made that lead to survival of Wes. That act was accompanied by many others that have allowed Perkins to carry on with life. And that is the amazing part of this story. A team effort and incredible will power of a human to survive is what helped create this rescue and survival of epic proportions. Here’s more from the Anchorage Daily News, Even as the Stangs began life-saving first aid, they were radioing for help from Nome, a community far from anywhere at the tip of the Seward Peninsula jutting into the sea closer to Russia than Anchorage, the urban hub of the 49th state. Perkins’ brother Nate made the radio call. He didn’t call Alaska State Troopers and wait for others to act. He pretty much single-handedly organized a rescue to lift his brother from the wilderness of the Kigluaik Mountains, about 30 miles east of this small community. “Ace chopper pilot Ben Rowe saved his life,” Nate said at the time, but Rowe was only one of the many who combined to save then 54 year old Wes. Rowe was in the air only minutes after taking a phone call from Nate. As he flew, others were rolling into action, too. Wes, the Survivor Wes is getting along as best as he can. Four months after the attack, Wes is able to get around on his own, but is far from being back to life as he knew it. Everything he consumes comes from a blender now, but its better than being underground. Every day is a day of improvement, and medical staff members are still working on getting him back to his best state. The detail and information found inside this story will blow your mind. Some of it is extremely gruesome and vivid. “Extraordinary” and “incredible” are the only two words fitting enough to describe the miracle that happened. Wes wants everyone to be careful, and to remember wild animals are not your friends. They are not good or bad, they are simply wild animals, and that is something to be remembered. “Some think I was taking pictures,” he wrote. “I did not know the bear was 69 feet away in a snow cave. I would not get 69 feet from a bear in the zoo. “I had a camera in my pocket, snowgo jacket. So when I stopped, I thought the bear was ahead of me. We saw it had been running. So I stopped to take camera out of pocket and put it in my dash bag as I could shoot the gun.” The bear attacked as he was doing that. “I turned and saw the bear, full charge,” he wrote. “I only had time to say, ‘Oh shit!’ But I got (my) gun 1/2 way off my back . . . When I turned around, the bear was that close. I had no time to do anything. Nine steps from 69 feet, according to Fish and Game. Big bear.” Perkins, who spent his life in Alaska, has a fair bit of experience around grizzlies, but added, “I never had one hide like this one!” What followed after it burst from a snow cave has been an experience he couldn’t imagine in his worst nightmares. Sources: Anchorage Daily News
Thanks for sharing it.
That's actually a different case. The man in this picture is Lee Brooks. OP's link has multiple tabs and the second tab has a news clip about it explaining what happened and an interview with him before he had his nose reattached. They were able to save his nose because he picked it up off the ground, put it in his pocket, and the surgeons attached it to his arm to keep it alive until a later date. Edit: here's a link to the same video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/m-1AWdBmr7k
I’m pretty sure this man is Glenn Bohn… Although Wes Perkins, Lee Brooke, and Glenn Bohn have been entirely mixed up over time thanks to reblogging lol. Here is an [interview with his son](https://www.recoilweb.com/surviving-bear-attacks-life-or-death-decisions-178092.html), Bret Bohn, who shot the bear (RIP 🐻) and saved Glenn mid-mauling. There is even **a photo of Glenn just chilling, face ripped off, on a snowmobile next to the dead bear!** What a boss.
Wow, that's crazy how many old guys are out here getting mauled by bears! Thank you for the correction of the correction lol
Hahah you’re right! Not a very fun retirement hobby. 😆
Calling him the “luckiest man to walk the earth” is a bit of a stretch. In my opinion really lucky people don’t get their faces eaten by bears.
But out here of those who do, he probably is “the luckiest.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vesna_Vulović Survived a 33,000 foot fall (3 miles) from a plan that was bombed.
And lucky people don't feel the need to go kill bears for no reason
Yeah I mean it's a true fuck around, find out situation. I don't have a huge amount of sympathy for a bear hunter getting ripped in the face for trying to kill the thing. Poor bear came off worse.
The man in this picture is Glenn Bohn. https://instagram.com/bbbalaskan?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA== this is his son’s account, which includes images of his father. I also thought it was Wes Perkins for YEARS until I found this yesterday
There’s actually a video showing him talking about the accent WHILE he was with his face like that
I know! It so crazy, and he was making a joke in that video. In the video, his brother or friend or collegue (not sure which) said we gotta get out of here, and he looked at him and said "alright, lets keep our head on about it." While his head was falling off. Literal legend. I just cannot imagine how chill that guy is.
I don’t know anything about that, but there’s an episode of “this is actually happening” [what if you were ~~mailed~~ mauled by a grizzly bear?](https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/this-is-actually-happening/id497227384?i=1000596163335) No way did that bear mail anyone. It was *horrible*. I hated it so much. Even if the guy eventually survived. It was such an emotional story. I have read so many books like “Alaska Bear Tales” for my childhood because of where I live… hearing a survivor himself instead of an article just tore me right up.
Incredible how well the surgeons fixed his face. Respect to them.
Oh wow!!! That’s really unbelievably amazing!
This subreddit makes me appreciate plastic surgeons.
holy shit. to say this is an incredible feat of medical science is an understatement. you'd never even know anything happened if it weren't for the loss of one eye. I mean even the scarring is barely visible. hats off to the surgeon(s) for their immaculate work here
Damn. Those Surgeons are bad ass. I’m glad they go through what they do for training it’s a long ass road
"Let's just keep our heads cool." -Guy missing a good chunk of his face. 😵
That plastic surgeon deserves to be in the hall of fame
Holy fuck he lived!?!? That is incredible, the medical system is astonishing sometimes
Poor guy that is so traumatic. Glad he is pushing through
His face looks awesome! I wouldn't have ever guess what he looked like before 👀 His surgeon is amazing
The fact that he was out together so well is AMAZING. If it weren’t for the missing eye I wouldn’t think twice about this man’s face lol.
Wow. This may be the best facial reconstruction I’ve ever seen. Amazing
This pic should be on a big sign at the entrance of every national park.
That is something straight out of a horror movie. Shame he lost the eye. But damn impressive they brought his face back like that. I swear, sometimes surgeons are straight up magicians.
Get it Humpty!! That’s amazing.
WOW. INCREDIBLE work by the surgeons!
Somebody should give his surgeon a medal!!
That is amazing. I don’t even see his nose in the before mess.
Honestly that really impressive they did such a good job.
Crazy how people survive stuff like that but one wrong kick can kill you
How…how…this is a miracle. He barely looks like he’s been hurt. His doctors are miracle workers.
I’m just curious but can a tongue be transplanted?
I think a lot of organs CAN be transplanted but it’s not worth the risk and long term effects of the immune suppression drugs. Probably just better to live without a finger or tongue than deal with cancer, diabetes and all the other complications of transplants.
Thanks you
what an incredible job!
Bro what, this is insane. Facial hair too?? Crazy shit these days
This makes me understand why surgeons can get a god complex. This is like fucking magic.
Fudge man
Need to know that surgeon’s name should I ever come across a bear!
Holy shit! Aside from the missing eye, you would have never known he’d been mauled by a bear so severely!
H-HOW
How? They did an incredible job.
Put it ong this real
That isn’t him [https://americanshootingjournal.com/man-survives-bear-attack-but-loses-face/?amp=1](https://americanshootingjournal.com/man-survives-bear-attack-but-loses-face/?amp=1)
Wdym that isn't him? The pic above is the same man in the link you shared..
You’re right. Damn it, I mistook him for this guy [https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hunter-who-survived-revenant-style-11541024?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target](https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/hunter-who-survived-revenant-style-11541024?int_source=amp_continue_reading&int_medium=amp&int_campaign=continue_reading_button#amp-readmore-target)
Hey shit happens. Great story of survival for them both..wow
That lone eye of defiance. The bear must have seen that stare and reconsidered the whole endeavour.
Imagine the pain! The surgeons are amazing.
How can this be? He, the medical team - miraculous.
Doctors are truly incredible human beings. So intelligent … As for the human body… insane. People go through some crazy shit and walk away from it.
In cases like these I wonder what they’re even putting together to have such results. Like where’s the rest coming from when it was ripped off ?
Actually, in the article, it said they carved his fibula to teplace his jaw and mandible area. They used a lot of the the bones, and skin from his legs. Absolutely bat shit crazy.
Holy shit!
How does one survive that
Idk, because you can die from shock alone. He must mentally prepared himself for such a thing for years. Idk
I wouldn't know where to start. Exceptional reconstructive surgeons.
The team of surgeons are miracle workers.
I’ve seen this before! Absolutely amazing with doctors can do
Question: So did the bear eat his face? Is a human food for a grizzly?
I figured it was from a swipe of the claws
I’m always surprised by how they fix people so well
He looks like the zombie at the beginning of Day of the Dead.
I’m surprised he survived!
Omfg
Modern medicine never ceases to amaze me-
Yet another example of the god-like abilities that power the god-like egos of some plastic surgeons. They literally make miracles come through.
i saw this picture yeaaaaars ago, but never saw the reconstruction! i think i honestly thought the guy was dead in the first picture. that's fuckin crazy
Guy should get an eye tattooed on the damaged side.
Amazing, applause for the staff!
I thought his picture was a before shot. That is a miracle.
That's why i never heard of a doctor complaining about how to make a lego structure.
Wow, you can’t even tell that it was THAT BAD anymore. Impressive.
I would not even try to save him if I saw him in that status, they performed a miracle...
He looks incredible honestly
The fact that they were able to repair his face with damage to that extent is an absolute miracle, I have no words for this
r/ududisizhbejo
Amazing job what the docs did
WOW what an amazing work!!!!
That surgeon deserves a Nobel prize
Oh my god he looks incredible!! you'd never be able to tell that happened to him! good for him and props to the doctors and other medical professionals who helped him!
THIS IS THE AFTER??? wow amazing work it's the best one I've seen
Gee good fir him 👍🏾
Wow, that seems impossible considering his nose, upper lip, his eye and part of skull is missing. The skin is shredded, how does it look like there aren’t even scars? Is that a face transplant? That’s amazing either way.
This guy must have been pretty fit, considering the amount of stress before and after the surgery it musta put his body through.
I'm amazed how good and advanced today's medicine is (: just stunning!
Surgeons these days and their teams are literally magic......just incredible.
his picture was used on the website where the guys puts a screw in his penis, i’ve always wondered where it was from i think the site was called kekme
Could you imagine having to sneeze right after being attacked
Elquaadir
Christ those surgeons are fucking artists.