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In addition to keeping up her spirits despite losing her hands, left leg and right foot to a flesh-eating bacteria, this week Aimee Copeland turned down painkillers before a skin graft, her father wrote in a blog Friday.
"Aimee despises the use of morphine in her treatment," Andy Copeland wrote. "Although that drug effectively blocks most of the pain associated with her condition, it makes her groggy and confused and it gives her unpleasant hallucinatory episodes."
Aimee Copeland, a graduate student at the University of West Georgia, has been hospitalized in critical condition at an Augusta, Ga., hospital since early May, battling kidney failure and other organ damage after she began exhibiting symptoms related to the necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating bacteria, that has ravaged her system. Her condition was upgraded on Tuesday to serious.
"I know the pain was significant, but Aimee's courage is greater," Andy Copeland said of his daughter's decision to forgo the morphine.
"Part of her master's thesis is focused on holistic pain management techniques and Aimee told me that she feels she is a traitor to her convictions when she uses pharmacological pain management," Andy Copeland added.
Aimee faced an even bigger graft Friday, this time including both skin and muscle.
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http://www.thenorthwestern.com/arti...n-graft?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s
"Aimee despises the use of morphine in her treatment," Andy Copeland wrote. "Although that drug effectively blocks most of the pain associated with her condition, it makes her groggy and confused and it gives her unpleasant hallucinatory episodes."
Aimee Copeland, a graduate student at the University of West Georgia, has been hospitalized in critical condition at an Augusta, Ga., hospital since early May, battling kidney failure and other organ damage after she began exhibiting symptoms related to the necrotizing fasciitis, or flesh-eating bacteria, that has ravaged her system. Her condition was upgraded on Tuesday to serious.
"I know the pain was significant, but Aimee's courage is greater," Andy Copeland said of his daughter's decision to forgo the morphine.
"Part of her master's thesis is focused on holistic pain management techniques and Aimee told me that she feels she is a traitor to her convictions when she uses pharmacological pain management," Andy Copeland added.
Aimee faced an even bigger graft Friday, this time including both skin and muscle.
cont at
http://www.thenorthwestern.com/arti...n-graft?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|FRONTPAGE|s