Wednesday, July 11, 2012
The victim of a flesh-eating disease will return home to a specially constructed addition to her family home — free of charge.
A day after her hometown presented her family with a $19,000 check to aid her medical costs, Aimee Copeland — the victim of a flesh-eating bacteria — will return to a new addition to her family home designed with her special needs in mind, according to her father, Andy. A national builder, Pulte Homes, along with more than two dozen trade partners, plans to build the family — at no charge — a 1,956-square-foot addition to the family's Snellville, Ga., home in time for Aimee's return from a rehabilitation hospital sometime within the next two months. Copeland is undergoing rehab following a lengthy hospital stay. Copeland, 24, lost all of her left leg, her right foot, and both hands. The limbs were amputated after Copeland contracted …
Monday, July 9, 2012
Snellville, GA, officials will present a check to the family tonight, reports say.
In honor of the 24-year-old Georgia woman battling a flesh-eating disease, people around the country and the world have responded with prayers and well wishes, and donated blood in her honor. Today Aimee Copeland's hometown will make its own contribution in the form of cold, hard cash. In a ceremony tonight, Snellville, GA, town officials will present Copeland's family with a check for $16,500, according to this report. In a recent blog update, her father Andy Copeland, a Spartanburg native and USC graduate, offers thanks to the many people who have donated to his daughter. The financial support is important because prosthetics for Copeland will be expensive. "We have come to realize that $150,000 for prosthetics may have been a …
Monday, July 2, 2012
Aimee Copeland, a 24-year-old who picked up the "flesh-eating disease" after a zip line accident, is schedule to leave the hospital Monday.
Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia woman who has been battling a flesh-eating bacteria, is scheduled to be released from the hospital Monday, according to CNN. Copeland's father, Andy Copeland, told CNN that his daughter will enter a rehab facility before returning home. "She's real excited," Copeland told CNN's Erin Burnett. "She's been seeing those four walls inside that hospital for a long time." Doctors amputated most of Aimee's hands, one of her legs and one of her feet to stop the infection. She's also had multiple skin grafts. She now has to learn how to perform everyday tasks without hands and feet, Andy Copeland told CNN. Andy Copeland, a native of Spartanburg, posted on his blog last week that his daughter was improving …
Monday, June 25, 2012
Andy Copeland wrote that his daughter, Aimee, is embracing her new life as both a challenge and an opportunity.
The latest blog post from the father of a flesh-eating bacteria victim is positive and hopeful. Andy Copeland of Spartanburg wrote on Monday that his daughter, Aimee, is improving and not just in the physical sense. On Monday, Copeland wrote that Aimee is embracing life both as a challenge and an opportunity, just 49 days after an accident that changed her life. On May 1, Aimee was injured in a homemade zip-line accident, when she fell into a creek and cut her leg severely. In the process, she picked up a typically fatal bacterium from the water that eats away the skin. The infection caused a condition called "necrotizing fasciitis," more widely known as "flesh-eating disease." While Aimee remains in serious condition at the Joseph M. …
Monday, June 11, 2012
At USC blood drive Monday in honor of his daughter, Andy Copeland said he believes his daughter may finally be "out of the woods."
Andy Copeland would seem to have every right to despair. Instead, he's filled with hope. Despite the odds, his 24-year-old daughter, Aimee, is alive — and getting better — regardless of the horrific and often-fatal disease afflicting her. On May 1, Aimee was injured in a homemade zip-line accident, where she fell into a creek and cut her leg severely. In the process, she picked up a typically fatal bacterium from the water that eats away the skin. The infection caused a condition called "necrotizing fasciitis," more widely known as "flesh-eating disease." As a result, Aimee has since lost her left leg, her right foot, and both hands. "Her body is as strong as her spirit right now," Copeland said Monday at a blood drive in his daughter's …
Kevin Quinn
10:35 am on Friday, July 6, 2012
Flesh eating disease When I was in Africa I ran into a girl who had a Flesh eating disease all over her right arm, the top of her chest, and half way down her back. I had brought some medicine with me from the U.S. in case I got sick in the middle of nowhere. So I gave her some “Bactrin” which is an anti-biotic similar to Penicillin, and a bar of Ivory Soap. I told her that the Bactrin would help… more ›