Student gets her legs amputated, will lose hands due to flesh eating bacteria - Polidicks

[QUOTE=JC Denton;36043723]A true role model. In my opinion, although the amputations are terrible to go through, I think the most significant change in her life may come from the tracheotomy. Not only has she been robbed of mobility, but also of speech.[/QUOTE] I can't take this post seriously, sorry I read it in JC's voice, adding what a shame in the end of the sentence

[QUOTE=Rents;36043806]Nonsense, stick your nose in anything you don't understand that you come across, you might irritate people but you'll learn something.[/QUOTE] But I might also supply false information :v: But then again as long as I'm corrected everyone wins...

[img]http://ww4.hdnux.com/photos/13/20/65/2952563/13/628x471.jpg[/img] [QUOTE]This undated photo provided by the family shows Aimee Copeland, the 24-year-old Georgia graduate student fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection.[/QUOTE] It may not look like it to the untrained eye, but she is actually performing ultra-complex maneuvers to avoid contact with the invisible cloud of gaseous infectious tissue around her.

[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;36041599]They're going to fit her with prosthetic limbs, and they talked about it like it's normal. This stuff was only science-fiction just a couple years ago. [img]http://www.zupdates.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/prosthetic-hand.jpg[/img] Gentlemen, we have entered the future and didn't even notice.[/QUOTE] God damn that thing looks badass

[QUOTE]Some people may criticize my decision and say we should have prayed over Aimee and asked God to heal her hands.[/QUOTE] It kinda hurts to know that some family might actually decide to do this rather than seek proper treatment. The suffering that the patient could go through and the selfishness of the family to use the family member to preserve their faith rather than trying to help them is hard for me understand.

She's lucky she was born into an era where prosthetics are catching up to the real thing.

I have to say goddamn hat off to her for taking it so fucking well. [QUOTE=Doctor Zedacon;36043582]Any time Facepunch gets on a kick about something like this, I absolutely despise being around here. I suffer from borderline debilitating nosophobia and hypochondria, so these threads send me in to panic mode. I refused to even look at the previous threads, and could barely force myself to look at this one.[/QUOTE] I don't think you need to have hypochondria to be slightly (maybe more than slightly) disturbed by stuff like this. That said I have some passive hypochondria as well so yeah reading about this didn't make the day any better (however, according to Wikipedia stuff like this happens [B]very[/B] rarely in people with problems in immune system, for people without such problems it's even rarer).

So many cases of flesh-eating bacteria, It's scary.

One of my teachers went abroad and came back without knowing he had apparently caught this (or a similar flesh-eating) bacteria. The doctors had to take a pretty big chuck out of his legs, but nothing as severe as this.

"Some people may criticize my decision and say we should have prayed over Aimee and asked God to heal her hands." yes and those people should be institutionalized because they are crazy

[QUOTE=Mr. Smartass;36044227]God damn that thing looks badass[/QUOTE] and to think something like that would have been fiction in the decade I was born in we're lucky to see so much innovation and progress in our lifetimes without having to see them from old and weak eyes

It's pretty scary how common some of the flesh eating bacterial strains are. As mentioned, some of the fuckers even stay on your skin during your entire life. It's why you are taught from a very young age to immediately disinfect any cuts or scrapes you get. The deeper it is, the more important it is to disinfect it.

[QUOTE=FlakAttack;36045807]It's pretty scary how common some of the flesh eating bacterial strains are. As mentioned, some of the fuckers even stay on your skin during your entire life. It's why you are taught from a very young age to immediately disinfect any cuts or scrapes you get. The deeper it is, the more important it is to disinfect it.[/QUOTE] It's important to disinfect irregardless of how deep it is. HIV, Hepatitis and other blood-borne pathogens don't discriminate between a deep wound and a not-so deep wound.

[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;36040696]I'm not sure where the 'courage' thing comes from right now. She's stuck in her hospital bed, pretty much at the mercy of the doctors and her family. She can't do anything right now is what I'm saying. Basically anyone would be doing the same thing if you were stuck in her position right now. Later, when it's time to get out of the hospital and get on with her life, THAT'S when the courage will show(or not). Will she be able to get on with it, or give up?[/QUOTE] Okay, so they tell you you are going to lose limbs, I assume you will just be like "That's cool" since you are such a bad ass.

[QUOTE=parket;36040650]Because believe it or not there are behavioural differences between men and women![/QUOTE] Men all cry when they lose their limbs?

The reason we are hearing so much about these flesh eating bacteria is because its "hot" news right now, in a few weeks the media will have forgotten about it and move onto another scare story which will in no doubt have no effect on the majority of people, like this infection which is INCREDIBLY rare to get. This doesn't detract from how horrific this is though, Pro's to her for being strong throughout this.

[QUOTE=Marbalo;36041950]why do you people always have to be so fucking politically correct why do you always fish for arguments over semantics that deteriorate into page after page of shit flinging[/QUOTE] because people are sexist without even realising it and it's painful to watch

Um, she probably isn't going to be so unemotional once she's not skyhigh on drugs.

[QUOTE=borisvdb;36044588]So many cases of flesh-eating bacteria, It's scary.[/QUOTE] It's just a series of freak accidents that happened all at once, kind of like those Florida shark attacks a couple years ago.

[QUOTE=jimhowl33t;36041599]They're going to fit her with prosthetic limbs, and they talked about it like it's normal. This stuff was only science-fiction just a couple years ago. [img]http://www.zupdates.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/prosthetic-hand.jpg[/img] Gentlemen, we have entered the future and didn't even notice.[/QUOTE] Holy shit, really? Does that hand move the fingers?

Fair play to her.

This is far too similar to a satirical Something Awful article I read a few days ago. [url]http://www.somethingawful.com/d/news/flesh-eating-bacteria.php[/url]

[QUOTE=borisvdb;36044588]So many cases of flesh-eating bacteria, It's scary.[/QUOTE] It's actually really rare, especially in colder climates. Not to mention that it's the same bacteria that gives gastroenteritis, just that for people with suppressed/problematic immune system it can become an infection that causes necrosis (the bacteria doesn't actually eat flesh). I like however how the article completely skips over the fact that unless you have immune deficiencies, chances of contracting this are absurdly low (and even with issues, it's still absurdly low).

I'm glad losing a limb isn't as bad as it was only decades ago, what with all the new developments in prosthetics and stuff.

She's so hot too...