"Ky. doctors repair gaping hole in Kazakhstan woman’s cheek" Associated Press June 25, 2014
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Kentucky medical team has painstakingly repaired the disfiguring injuries to a woman’s face, caused by radiation treatments for a cancer she never had, that caused a gaping hole in her cheek and made her an outcast in a former Soviet republic.
Lessya Kotelevskaya was recovering Tuesday following the 16-hour surgery the day before at University of Louisville Hospital.
Her surgeon, Dr. Jarrod Little, said the procedure to reconstruct her jawbone and cheek went according to plan.
‘‘Lessya cannot wait to get back to her normal life,’’ her cousin, Oleg Sennik, told reporters.
The 30-year-old’s life spiraled into tragedy when she was diagnosed with terminal jaw cancer at age 19 in Kazakhstan after she was accidentally elbowed in the face at a basketball game and her jaw became swollen. The damage from radiation treatments made it difficult to eat and talk.
By the time she found out the cancer diagnosis was wrong, she had lost her husband and their clothing boutique. She scraped by for years with odd jobs at night so people would not see her. At one point, she lived in the utility room of a car wash.
‘‘She was rejected everywhere she went before,’’ her cousin said.
Sennik brought Kotelevskaya and her young son to live with him last year in Louisville, where they found medical care to turn around her life.
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"A defense attorney well known in his small, southern Kentucky town was shot and killed outside of his law office early Friday by a man who wanted his help but was turned down, according to police reports....
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The guy's name is Inabnitt? Is he even a real person or name or did they make it up like the ghost terrorists they keep exhuming from the grave?
