Aimee Copeland, 24-year-old with necrotizing fasciitis, remains in critical condition
Aimee Copeland, 24, remains in critical condition at JMS Burn Center in Augusta, Ga., doctors said Friday.
/ Facebook(CBS/AP) Doctors say 24-year-old graduate student Aimee Copeland, who is battling a flesh-decaying bacteria she contracted from a zip line accident, remains in critical condition.
Aimee Copeland "very responsive," but to lose hands and other foot to necrotizing fasciitis, says report
Aimee Copeland, 24, battles flesh-eating necrotizing fasciitis following zip-lining accident
Officials said Friday that 24-year-old Aimee Copeland was listed in critical condition at the Joseph M. Still Burn Center at Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Ga.
Aimee's father Andy also gave an update on his daughter's condition Friday morning in a blog on the University of West Georgia Psychology department student website:
"Aimee is alert and trying to mouth questions. Her breathing tube has been reoriented to increase her comfort and allow them to try to read her lips," Andy wrote. "She said: 'I can't talk!' We told her it was because of the tube, and we explained the need for it. 'Take it out!' She also asked 'what happened?' and 'where am I?'"
"I thought it would be better when she became alert, but it is actually harder for us," he wrote.
Copeland suffered a cut on her leg after falling from a homemade zip line May 1 as she and her friends kayaked along the Little Tallapoosa River in Carrollton, Ga.
The University of West Georgia graduate psychology student was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, an infection that destroys human tissue. She had most of her right leg amputated last week because of the infection.
Family members said Thursday she will lose her hands and remaining foot to the infection. But her father also said Thursday that his daughter is improving, and that she has been coherent and alert. A blog post on Thursday said her neurologist said there was no indication of brain damage, and the cardiopulmonologist says Copeland's lungs are improving.
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Some of the verbal religious diatribe I am hearing from this family is almost as sickening as the horrible accident and disease that is taking this beautiful girl inch by agonizing inch. She faces a lifetime of pain and misery. Why? Because dad couldn't bear let me go to be with God?
My prayers are with Aimee and her family, but they may not be the same prayers her parents are praying. I pray they have the strength to do the right thing.
She got this from the Hospital!!
I've since changed my career to focus on nutrition education, receiving an MS in the area. I don't freak out and try to avoid all bacteria, but I do pump my body full of healthy probiotics. Antibiotics are great, but they wiped out everything when I was on my crazy-heavy doses.
My thoughts are with Aimee and her family.
Type in "cdc silent killer from iraq".
This has killed over 97,000 children "birth to 18 years old"
I have Leishmaniasis from Kosovo, Kuwait, Iraq and Iran.
The Congressman to contact is Issa, Ca.; Cummings, Md.; Thornsberry, Tx.; kucinich of Oh. was voted out, but Issa, Ca. took his place as head Congressman. Cummings, Md. was point in a Congressional Investigation but DOD and the State Dept. pulled it and now has it.
Only a blessing can help the ones that has this Unforgiving Disease because AIG and KBR "Halliburton" is to big to FAIL.
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God Bless your Family, God Bless America and make them start telling the Truth
God didn't put that crap in the water nor did he over use antibiotics on cows blah blah blah. Quit blaming God for the things we do. Now go to church and be saved!