“While we have the utmost sympathy for Charla Nash, we do not believe that the state is liable for Ms. Nash from attack by a privately owned chimp on private property? Under well-settled law, it did not.” In a statement to CNN, Connecticut attorney general spokeswoman Jaclyn Falkowski said, “The legal question in this case is: Did the state owe a legal duty to protect Ms. The state, Sindland alleges, “knew that the chimp was a danger” but didn’t do anything to remove it from the home.ĭennis Schain, director of communications for the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection, told CNN he is aware of the memo, but he said all statements from the case must come from the state Attorney General’s Office. Sindland said authorities at the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection ignored a memo sent in October 2008, four months before the attack, from Connecticut state biologist Elaine Hinsch that said Travis the chimp was “an accident waiting to happen.” Nash is still waiting for an opportunity to square off against the state for injuries she contends could’ve been prevented. “I want … to be able to do more on my own,” Nash said. Nash hopes they will be able to try again. Part of the $150 million she’s seeking would fund a hand transplant, which doctors unsuccessfully attempted at the time of her face transplant. She sued Sandra Herold, the owner of the chimp, and received $4 million for her injuries, but according to spokesman Shelly Sindland, that settlement doesn’t even begin to cover the expenses for her treatment. Since the attack five years ago, Nash has had numerous surgeries, including a face transplant. By law, anyone seeking to sue the state of Connecticut must seek permission to do so. Representatives for Nash will present her case to the Connecticut State Judiciary Committee on Friday in hopes that legislators will allow her to proceed with a $150 million lawsuit against the state. The seven-minute video, released to Connecticut state legislators, features an interview with Nash and footage of her walking around the private medical facility where she lives and receives daily assistance for her injuries. “It’s a different world to not be able to see again or to use your hands and do things for yourself that you have to depend on other people for help now,” Nash said. “I remember laying in the room, and I remember sometimes I would try to scratch my leg, and then I wasn’t feeling it,” she said. Police later fatally shot Travis to stop the attack, which left Nash without hands, a nose, lips or eyelids. Travis the chimp, which had appeared in television commercials for Coca-Cola and Old Navy, jumped on Nash, biting and mauling her. Nash was attacked while trying to help coax her friend’s 14-year-old pet chimpanzee back into her house. “He said the lights are on,” Nash remembers, and “little by little, it started to come together.” Unaware she had lost her vision, Charla Nash said she asked her brother Mike to turn on the lights.
"We expect this rejection episode to be resolved within the coming week," he said in a statement.A Connecticut woman mauled by a friend’s chimpanzee in 2009 describes in a new video what it was like waking up in a hospital after the attack. He said she will most likely leave the hospital in the next day or two. Pomahac said doctors have removed Nash from the experiment and put her back on her original medication. Anti-rejection drugs can have serious side effects, and the military had funded the experiment in hopes of using the findings to help soldiers who had transplants after returning from war. Nash was taking part in an experiment in which doctors had tried to wean her off the anti-rejection drugs she had been taking since the 2011 operation. Bohdan Pomahac, director of plastic surgery transplantation at Brigham and Women's Hospital, said Wednesday that Charla Nash is experiencing a "moderate rejection episode" and the transplant is not in jeopardy. HARTFORD, Connecticut - The Connecticut woman who underwent a face transplant five years ago after being attacked by a chimpanzee is back in a Boston hospital after doctors discovered her body is rejecting tissue from the transplant.ĭr. Charla Nash had been taking part in an experiment in which doctors at Boston's Brigham and Women's Hospital had tried to wean her off the anti-rejection drugs she had been taking since the 2011 operation.
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