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- Tests showed that an infection had flowered behind his eyes, cutting off the flow of blood to his lip. It died, and Fritts didn’t know. He had to remove the prosthetic nose as well as the palate, then wait for the infection to subside. Then, a week after his second nose was attached last month, a wire holding the prosthetic broke.
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Medicare and Medicaid paid for Donnie's initial surgery and for some of his facial rebuilding, but would not cover a new nose for him, because that was deemed cosmetic.
Apr 25, 2015 · He needed a new face because a very rare disease left him without a nose, upper palate, upper lip, and also took a part of his frontal lobe. Meet Donnie, this was how he looked like before the cancer.
Nov 22, 2013 · The 12-hour surgery was a success but left Donnie, a former carpenter, with a gaping hole in the middle of his face. He no longer had a nose, upper lip and palate and part of his forehead was...
Dec 27, 2013 · Before his operation, Fritts’ profile resembled something an artist had started but left incomplete: a face lacking a nose. Now, Fritts said, that profile is finished. And his new life has...
Donnie Fritts was diagnosed with Ameloblastic Carcinoma on December 23, 2002. His forehead, part of frontal lobe, nose, upper palate, top lip and all of the bones, muscle and tissue of the middle face were removed in August of 2003, due to the three stage four tumors that were eating his bones and flesh right off of his face.He finished 36 ...
Occupation (s) Session musician, songwriter. Instrument (s) Keyboard. Donald Ray Fritts [1] (November 8, 1942 – August 27, 2019) was an American session musician and songwriter. A recording artist in his own right, he was Kris Kristofferson 's keyboardist for over forty years. In 2008, he was inducted into the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.
Jul 4, 2010 · He had no nose or upper lip, and much of his forehead had been removed. “I looked terrible, I looked like a monster,” he told TODAY. “If I scared my own self, what was I going to do to other people?” Donnie was afraid of the looks he would receive when he went out in public, so he rarely left his home. It was a dark and difficult time.
