Aimee Copeland Critical Condition—Aimee Copeland & Critical Condition, The 24-year-old woman battling a deadly bacteria learned early Thursday that she faces more amputations. Then, Aimee Copeland showed her fierce determination to recover with three simple words.
Copeland family Aimee Copeland, a 24-year-old Georgia graduate student is fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection that forced doctors to amputate most of her left leg.
“Let’s do this.” Copeland’s parents told her Thursday doctors want to remove her hands and remaining foot, two weeks after her leg was amputated. What started as a gash on her leg soon left Copeland, a University of West Georgia graduate student, fighting for her life.
But even as she’s remained in critical condition at an Augusta hospital, Copeland has shown remarkable resilience, detailed by her father, Andy, on a Facebook page dedicated to his daughter.
In a Friday morning Facebook post, Andy Copeland said he and his wife explained to Aimee that she would need the amputations.
“Aimee, I do not want anything to happen to you,” Copeland said he told this daughter. “Your mind is beautiful, your heart is good and your spirit is strong. These hands can prevent your recovery from moving forward.
The doctors want to amputate them and your foot today to assure your best possible chance of survival.”
Copeland family Aimee Copeland, a 24-year-old Georgia graduate student is fighting to survive a flesh-eating bacterial infection that forced doctors to amputate most of her left leg.
“Let’s do this.” Copeland’s parents told her Thursday doctors want to remove her hands and remaining foot, two weeks after her leg was amputated. What started as a gash on her leg soon left Copeland, a University of West Georgia graduate student, fighting for her life.
But even as she’s remained in critical condition at an Augusta hospital, Copeland has shown remarkable resilience, detailed by her father, Andy, on a Facebook page dedicated to his daughter.
In a Friday morning Facebook post, Andy Copeland said he and his wife explained to Aimee that she would need the amputations.
“Aimee, I do not want anything to happen to you,” Copeland said he told this daughter. “Your mind is beautiful, your heart is good and your spirit is strong. These hands can prevent your recovery from moving forward.
The doctors want to amputate them and your foot today to assure your best possible chance of survival.”
