A graduate student at West Georgia University is fighting for her life after she contracted a deadly flesh-eating bacteria infection. Doctors will have to amputate her fingers:
Aimee [Copeland], 24, has already had her left leg amputated after necrotizing fasciitis — a rare bacteria that infects the deep layers of the skin and spreads quickly — took hold of her injured limb just over a week ago.
“Aimee will suffer the loss of her fingers, however physicians have hope of bringing life back to the palms of her hands, which could allow her the muscle control to use helpful prosthetics,” read a post on the website of the University of West Georgia psychology department, where Aimee is a masters student…
Aimee was kayaking down a creek with some of her friends in Carrollton, Ga., nearly two weeks ago when she stopped to ride on a homemade zip line along the water. The line snapped and she cut a large gash in her left calf.
Aimee went to the emergency room at the Tanner Medical Center in Carrollton, where doctors closed the wound with 22 staples and gave her pain medication.
But days later, a friend drove a “pale and weak” Aimee to the hospital, where an emergency room doctor diagnosed her with necrotizing fasciitis.
She was then airlifted to JMS Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., where doctors rushed her into surgery and performed a high-hip amputation of her left leg.
After surgery, Aimee suffered cardiac arrest, but the doctors were able to resuscitate her. Since then, she has been showing signs of recovery.
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