Emma Cousins, a cancer survivor in Sheffield, lives with a skin graft taken from her leg that has “come to life” on her face. After losing her eyeball, radiation left a necrotic hole that connected her face directly to her lungs; a simple bath could drown her.
To seal this void, surgeons connected veins from her leg to her head, creating a patch of living flesh with its own pulse.
The creepiest part is that piece of skin still “believes” it is in her leg, causing thick hair to grow over the graft that Emma has to pluck with tweezers from her own eye socket. In addition, the tissue moves, trying to blink over the void.
