A N.B. man was disfigured in a car crash. A prosthetic from a former spy changed his life
Global News
A retired CIA disguise expert has helped a New Brunswick man gain his life back after a car crash with a hyper-realistic prosthetic.
Fred Saulnier of Penniac, N.B., will never forget the moment in 2017 when his vehicle crashed into a power pole, nor the years of pain that followed.
“I slammed into the telephone pole and my face hit the steering wheel. The airbag didn’t stop me. When the police arrived, they noticed that my face was bleeding and they called an ambulance,” he recalls.
The force of the impact pushed his nose back into his skull.
But he says the time spent healing was nothing compared to what he endured over six years of reconstructive surgeries in Fredericton that he considers failures.
He waited two years for the first one.
“They did a forehead flap, and that was unsuccessful as far as I was concerned, because I still couldn’t breathe,” Saulnier says.
Photos show a swollen fleshy mass in the centre of his face.
“They took it off twice to make it smaller to see if they could get it to work,” he remembers, “then I went back and I woke up with no nostrils, it was just one disaster after another. “
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