Recipient of first full face transplant says he's 'relieved to be home' in tweet

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By Elizabeth Comeau, Boston.com Staff

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Dallas Weins, the recipient of the first full face transplant in the nation, which was performed at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston, tweeted he's "so relieved to be home" with his family and that he "can't wait to start the next chapter" of his life.

In March, the young man received a donor's face during a 15-hour surgery.The twitter page also links to a web site, dallaswiens.com, where you can read about the journey that brought him to Boston for his life-changing surgery.

Wiens was deeply burned when a cherry picker he was standing in to paint a church brushed against a power line. Doctors had to remove most of his facial muscles, tissue, and nerves, essentially leaving just his skull in front, which surgeons in Texas covered with muscle and skin from his back.

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