Photos: Aimee Copeland leaves hospital. Aimee Copeland goes home — Aimee Copeland and family meet with interior designer Donna DeLuca to personalize a 1,square-feet home addition to their home, courtesy of Pulte Homes on July Copeland, 24, went home on Wednesday, August 22, after spending two months in the hospital and then moving to rehab on July 2.
Hide Caption. Aimee Copeland goes home — Copeland's family home had a makeover to be equipped for her special needs. Aimee Copeland goes home — After two months in the hospital, Aimee Copeland is transferred into an ambulance outside Doctors Hospital in Augusta, Georgia, on Monday to continue her recovery from a flesh-eating bacteria at a rehab facility on July 2. She stayed in a rehab center before returning home.
Aimee Copeland goes home — Medical workers prepare Copeland for release from the hospital as her mother, Donna Copeland, waits alongside. Aimee Copeland goes home — Donna Copeland applies makeup to her daughter's face as they prepare for discharge Monday. Surgeons amputated most of Aimee's hands, one of her legs and her remaining foot in an effort to stay ahead of the infection. Aimee Copeland goes home — Copeland is transported to a waiting ambulance, which took her to a rehab facility before she returned home.
I don't know when. I couple of weeks, a couple of months. I don't know," he said. Doctors say the bacteria that causes this devastating infection is naturally present all around us and usually poses no threat, but it can become flesh-eating under the right set of unusual circumstances. If someone has a break in their skin and they come into contact with something unsanitary, such as stagnant water, it increases the chances that bacteria will turn virulent.
Exactly where Cindy Martinez picked up the bacteria may never be known. Friends and family are praying for her recovery from the rare condition that is attacking her body. Despite the severity of the illness, some other survivors show it is possible to pull through.
The common germ rarely causes flesh-eating disease. But when it does, the infection carries a fatality rate upward of 60 percent, according to report published in the journal Clinical Microbiology Reviews. My favorite word is 'miracle. While Copeland's physical recovery has astounded, her psychological recovery is hard to predict, according to Trivedi.
Each time she has a complication it will make it more difficult to move on from the event," he said. Copeland, who was completing her masters in psychology at West Georgia University before the accident, may be more resilient because of her background.
But she returned to the hospital the next day complaining of severe pain. Doctors sent Copeland home with a prescription for painkillers. She returned to the hospital again Thursday and was released again, this time with antibiotics. On Friday, Copeland was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, and her left leg was amputated at the hip. Since the amputation, Copeland's recovery has been touch and go.
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