Britain’s Donna Corden had half her face devoured after contracting flesheating bacteria in a domestic accident. She slipped, hit the ground and hurt her head on the stove. The next day, Donna’s face started to swell and she had to undergo about 15 surgeries.
“It was tiny, probably a half inch cut. The next day my face really started to swell. My eye was starting to turn black, but nowhere near where the cut was. Around the eye socket and under the eye, they started to appear as black blisters,” Britain’s Daily Star newspaper said. When Donna was admitted, doctors found she was infected with the rare bacteria called necrotizing fasciitis which affects tissue under the skin “I had lifesaving surgery where they had to literally remove half my face. They worked there 24/7.[Doctors]also told my kids, ‘We don’t think your mom’s going to make it.'” remembered.
According to the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), after infection with the necrotizing fasciitis bacterium, “Early clinical suspicion, surgical intervention, and antibiotic therapy are key to improving survival because of rapid progression to systemic toxicity, limb loss and can lead to death.
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Donna was in a coma for four days. He then underwent multiple surgeries to try to correct the injury to his face caused by the flesheating bacteria. In an interview with the Daily Star, she said the scary episode she experienced left one good thing in her wake: a passion that grew into an engagement.
“I thought I would never meet anyone after this happened to me. He (the fiancé) contacted me two years ago it was just a quick message saying ‘I just saw what happened to you let me know if you are free to talk I hope you’re fine,'” he said. Donna and James Olsen plan to get married next year.