Man who lost face in '05 mauling knows hell of new chimpanzee victim

Probably no one better understands the profound and peculiar agony that chimp mauling victim Charla Nash is suffering than St. James Davis.

Davis survived a horrific chimpanzee attack at a California wildlife rescue center in March 2005 - but not before his nose and mouth were ripped off, an eye was gouged out, his left foot was mangled and most of his fingers and buttocks were devoured.

He was in a medically induced coma for months. He's undergone more than 60 surgeries since.

"I remember every bite, one at a time. I remember when I went to touch my face, my fingers looked really scary," Davis, 66, told the Daily News.

He nearly bled to death three times as two hospitals denied him entry before a trauma center agreed to take him, he said.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/02/22/2009-02-22_man_who_lost_face_in_05_mauling_knows_he.html

not money.

Very special care probably needed. Not available at Yale or the big NYC hospitals I guess.

The Cleveland Clinic is an awesome hospital but still one would think NYC would have at least one place.

Question 2: Do you have a face?

how awful to have to go thru the rest of your life with such horrible injuries. :-(

you just don't think they are so violent and dangerous.
Wow.

...To think otherwise is to disrespect them.

I still don't like 'em.

And I'm a total animal person. Too human-like for my tastes.

and then with zero provocation, they'll turn on you, trunk-slap you, run you through with their tusks, and stomp you flat.

They're wild animals, and need to be respected as such.

I like elephants and apes and other big animals, but I don't know enough to go in the enclosure with them, so I don't - I can't read them well enough to not get mauled.