Flesh-Eating Disease Survivor Aimee Copeland Loves Life ‘Even More Now’
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Aimee Copeland, the young woman who lost her hands, both feet and her entire right leg to flesh-eating bacteria last spring, made her public debut Tuesday by walking — painstakingly — onto the set of Katie Couric’s new show, whe…
Flesh-Eating Disease Survivor Aimee Copeland Loves Life ‘Even More Now’
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Aimee Copeland, the young woman who lost her hands, both feet and her entire right leg to flesh-eating bacteria last spring, made her public debut Tuesday by walking — painstakingly — onto the set of Katie Couric’s new show, whe…
Flesh Eating Disease Survivor Aimee Copeland Goes Home
ABC News(ATLANTA) — Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old who lost both hands, her left leg and her right foot when she contracted a flesh-eating bacteria in April, slept in her own bed last night for the first time in months. After spending 51 days at the …
Aimee Copeland’s Rehab Workout: 200 Crunches, 400 Leg Lifts
ABC News(ATLANTA) — Aimee Copeland is getting stronger, one crunch at a time.Copeland is the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student whose body was ravaged by a flesh-eating bacteria she contracted in early May. The bacteria has taken her left leg, right…
Michigan Woman Has Flesh-Eating Bacteria Aimee Copeland Survived
WXYZ-TV/ABC News(DETROIT) — A Detroit-area woman is fighting for her life against the same, rare flesh-eating disease that nearly killed Georgia graduate student Aimee Copeland.Crystal Spencer, 33, is in serious condition at Detroit Receiving Hospital…
Aimee Copeland Helped Design Home Addition
ABC News(SNELLVILLE, Ga.) — Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student who lost her left leg, right foot and hands to a flesh-eating disease, helped design the addition to her childhood home known as “Aimee’s wing.”Copeland, 24, is living at an inpatient reh…
Aimee Copeland Leaves Hospital After Battling Flesh-Eating Disease
Tom Adkins/Capital City EMS(ATLANTA) — Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia grad student who lost her left leg, right foot and hands to flesh-eating disease, has left the Augusta hospital that saved her life. It’s been two months since Copeland cut…
Flesh-Eating Disease Victim Aimee Copeland Goes Outside for First Time
ABC News(AUGUSTA, Ga.) — Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student recovering from a flesh-eating disease, went outside for the first time in 49 days, her father wrote on his blog Monday. After several surgeries to remove her limbs, the 24-year-old’s …
Aimee Copeland’s Condition Upgraded to ‘Good’
ABC News(AUGUSTA, Ga.) — Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student recovering from a flesh-eating disease, went outside for the first time in 49 days, her father wrote on his blog today. Doctors Hospital in Augusta, where the 24-year-old has undergone treat…
Aimee Copeland Pleads for Painkillers, Feels Like ‘Patchwork Quilt’
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student recovering from flesh-eating disease, is pleading for painkillers after surgery to replace swaths of bacteria-ravaged skin and muscle, her father said.Copeland, 24, was hesitant to take morphine…
Aimee Copeland Faces Skin Grafts, Powers Through Pain
ABC News(ATLANTA) — Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student recovering from flesh-eating disease, is having surgery to replace swaths of bacteria-ravaged skin, her father said.It has been six weeks since Copeland, 24, cut open her calf in a fall from a ho…
Aimee Copeland Battling Phantom Limb Pain
ABC News(NEW YORK) — Aimee Copeland is battling phantom limb pain from her amputations.Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student who lost her left leg, right foot and hands to flesh-eating disease, is battling phantom limb pain – the sinister sensatio…
Georgia Flesh-Eating Disease Victim Speaks
ABC News(AUGUSTA, Ga.) — Aimee Copeland, 24, has spoken her first words since she was hospitalized in an Augusta, Ga., hospital on May 4 after contracting a flesh-eating disease, according to her father’s Facebook page.Andy Copeland, who d…
Georgia Woman with Flesh-Eating Disease to Lose Hands, Right Foot
ABC News(AUGUSTA, Ga.) — Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student who lost her leg to a rare flesh-eating infection two weeks ago, shed no tears after learning she would lose her remaining foot and both hands, according to her family. Her reaction instead:…
Girl With Flesh-Eating Disease Can’t Remember Events
Aimee Copeland, who lost her leg to flesh-eating disease, may also lose her hands and right foot. (ABC News)(ATLANTA) — Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student who contracted a rare flesh-eating disease after a zip line injury, is awake and alert, but sti…
Student With Flesh-Eating Disease Will Lose Fingers
ABC News (NEW YORK) — Aimee Copeland, the Georgia student who contracted a rare flesh-eating disease after a zip line injury will lose her fingers. “Aimee will suffer the loss of her fingers, however physicians have hope of bringing life back to the p…