Get Well Soon Aimee! #getwellaimee

from the Augusta Chronicle..

We are compiling a virtual get well card for Aimee Copeland, the young Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacteria. Hashtag your get well wishes on facebook, twitter, google+, or Instagram with #getwellaimee and we will compile them and publish them online for her and her family to read.

http://chronicle.augusta.com/getwellaimee

 Georgia woman with flesh-eating disease in "critical" condition

Reuters - A Georgia woman fighting a flesh-eating bacterial infection was in critical condition at Augusta Hospital on Saturday, a hospital spokeswoman said.

The spokeswoman said she could not comment on whether Aimee Copeland had undergone surgery to remove her hands and right foot, amputations that Copeland's father had said were pending on Friday. Surgeons had amputated the 24-year-old's left leg at the hip.

"All I can say is Aimee is still in critical condition," hospital spokeswoman Barclay Bishop said...

http://news.yahoo.com/georgia-woman-flesh-eating-disease-critical-condition-201616109.html


Aimee Copeland: "She doesn’t have eyebrows"

Replying to loving words from her father Andy--“Aimee, you are as priceless as the Mona Lisa”--a stalwart young woman in a Georgia hospital bed mouthed the words "I’m nothing like the Mona Lisa. She doesn’t have eyebrows."
The family banter goes on. After a shocking accident, deadly infection, excruciating pain, leg amputation and other tissue losses, ineffectual circulation, heart failure, resuscitation, waking from anesthesia, and coming to know about her altered body--the patient can still joke around with Dad, Mom, sister Paige, other relatives, docs, nurses, and hospital staff as if everyone were outdoors enjoying a picnic in the Carrollton sun.
Survived new surgeries
Surgeons operated on Aimee Copeland twice more last week:

• once on Wednesday afternoon, to free her of the hulking ventilator and breathing tube and allow her to breathe on her own and communicate more easily,
• and later, to remove remaining threats to her survival--her bloodless, near-dead hands and remaining foot. Further infection there, from any source, could have meant a new necrotizing fasciitis, and...
• http://www.examiner.com/article/aimee-copeland-she-doesn-t-have-eyebrows

  

What's in the water that got Aimee Copeland sick???

9:55 PM, May 18, 2012 | 2 comments

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Lionel Moise

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CARROLTON, Ga. -- Many have asked what was in the Little Tallapoosa River that got Aimee Copeland so sick? We wanted to know too, so we took a sample a got it tested.

We dropped the samples off to Emory's Center for Global Safe Water to test for Aeromonas Hydrophilia, the bacteria that caused Aimee's condition.

Researcher's grew the cultures overnight and told us that the bacteria is common and usually not a threat unless you have a deep cut.

"We found a concentration of about 140 cells per mL, which is roughly a tablespoon," said Amy Kirby. "That means in every tablespoon of water in the Little Tallapoosa River, there are 140 cells of aeromonas."

That may seem like a lot, but  http://www.11alive.com/news/article/242025/40/Whats-in-the-water-that-got-Aimee-Copeland-sick