ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (CBS4) – Doctors at Swedish Medical Center are rebuilding a man’s face as he rebuilds his life. The hunter from Pennsylvania had his nose and upper lip torn off by a grizzly bear in 2016.

“I’m quite excited about the results,” Lee Brooke told CBS4 Health Specialist Kathy Walsh.

Lee Brooke (credit: CBS)

When strangers gape at Brooke’s face, they see a man without a nose. Brooke and his wife, Martha, see a miracle.

“I can’t express how amazing it is,” he said.

Since early October 2016, doctors at Swedish have been reconstructing Brooke’s face mauled during a Wyoming hunting trip.

“I wasn’t thinking about a bear,” Brooke said.

(credit: Martha Brooke)

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