The father of Aimee Copeland the young woman who lost her hands and feet to an unusual flesh-eating bacteria is now speaking and still recovering from the tragedy she has withstood. Â She has been in the news and people have been following her heartbreaking story, but today there was good news. Her father is calling declaring today Aimee Day in honor of her!
Steph Bassanini
The family declared Sunday “Aimee Day” to mark the milestone.
“Aimee is being Aimee. She’s cracking jokes, speaking frankly, displaying her usual early morning grumpiness and she has been off of the ventilator for over 10 hours,” Andy Copeland said in a blog post two weeks ago.
Though the University of West Georgia student is still receiving an oxygen “mask,” Andy Copeland wrote, “the important thing is that she is getting zero breath per minute (bpm) assists. In other words, she is breathing completely on her own! How cool is that?”
The progress came after a harrowing week, in which Copeland’s remaining foot and both hands were amputated.
Prior to the surgery, a website posting by Copeland’s friend and fellow psychology student Ken Lewis explained the reason: “Aimee’s fingers and remaining foot will have to be amputated because of dead blood vessels, not because of necrotizing fasciitis,” he wrote.
Surgeons had already amputated a leg and cut out soft tissue from her torso.
On a Facebook page dedicated to his daughter’s recovery, Andy Copeland described speaking with the surgeons before the latest amputation.
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