22-Year-Old Undergoes World's First Successful Face and Hands Transplant: 'I Feel Really Grateful'
Joe DiMeo. Joe DiMeo tends to “roll with the punches.” The 22-year-old always looks for the positives, even when faced with extreme adversities, like a July 2018 car accident that left him with burns on 80% of his body. DiMeo had survived, but with significant losses — doctors had to amputate his fingers due to the severe burns, he had no lips and his eyelids were completely fused. “They did what they could at the best of their ability for me,” DiMeo tells PEOPLE....