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Come home, you know, with missing arms and legs and. >> sean: it's hard. >> my surgery's a blueprint for them. >> sean: what is next for joe. >> gaining the strength in my hands and move out, get my job again. they want me back as soon as possible.th >> sean: they do want you back. >> i'm very close with them.s >> joe's future's very bright. i think for joe this operation transmits to independence and freedom. and the moreen independence that we can provide him, which is the case with his new hands and face, the happier he'll be. and you can see this in him. >> it is truly amazing and the poss...

>> well you do what you love. >> sean: in 2001 he ran into a burning building to rescue a woman that was trapped inside. suddenly the burning roof collapsed directly onto patrick's head. >> roof collapsed on patrick knocking down his helmet. he felt the mask on his face was melting. >> sean: patrick held his breath. he jumped out of a window with he jumped out of a window with to his face. it claimed his h scalp, his nose, his lips, his ears his eyelids and all the skin on his face. >> i remember everything from getting in the ambulance to the helicopter. don't remember very much after that. >...

I'm in the donor room procuring the face for patrick. >> sean: why is it important that you be involved. >> in the donor room that's a highly pressured room because it's time sensitive. the patient can reach some time of instability so we have to be able to pull off organs, face hands, quickly. so that's a room that demands a certain level of attention but you have to move quickly.tt >> sean: and how long does that part of the procedure take? >> in patrick's case, thehe procuring and removal of the face, the dissection of all the nerves, that was a 12 hour dissection. which means we make the i...

Federal civil rights investigation. we have an incredible story here for you. a mississippi firefighter has undergone the world's most extensive face transplant. patrick hardison was badly injured in 2001. third degree burns of his head neck and upper torso. since then he's lived in excruciating pain until the family of a bmx racer who died in a bike crash agreed to donate his face. hardi hardison's doctors say he is doing well three months after surgery. he's getting back to daily routines. it's an incredible story about medical technology and what we are able to do now. i thought you'd lik...

I mean, it was just like, god sent like everything lined up as it should. >> open your mouth for me. okay. just relax let me feel your lips here. >> sean: even after 71 surgeries and skin grafts from his legs for 14 years patrick lived with what doctors described as pin hole vision.ck a mass of scar tissue was all that was left.in his eyelids, his lips, ears s nose, completely destroyed.. >> we've been evaluating patrick in new york at nyu, the entire face, ears, scalp, give rid of all the portions of the face that were burned in the fire and make him look normal. >> sean: with dr. rodriguez o...