Girl loses one eye from flesh-eating bacteria after mud run

menier111 Published 06/25/2015

Texas girl went blind in her eye after flesh-eating bacteria seeped its way into a cut during a “Mud Run” e

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Brittany Williams has no insurance and, after a week week in the hospital, now owes more than $100,000 in medical bills
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even as she faces more treatment to prevent the debilitating bacteria from spreading through her body.
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“My eye started hurting, like maybe I’ve got mud or some debris in there,”
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“When I opened my eye, it was just like white. The whole room was white.”
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Doctors at the emergency room told Williams she had “several abrasions on her cornea and what looked like a chemical burn” and eventually sent her home

1.
Brittany Williams has no insurance and, after a week week in the hospital, now owes more than $100,000 in medical bills
2.
even as she faces more treatment to prevent the debilitating bacteria from spreading through her body.
3.
“My eye started hurting, like maybe I’ve got mud or some debris in there,”
4.
“When I opened my eye, it was just like white. The whole room was white.”
5.
Doctors at the emergency room told Williams she had “several abrasions on her cornea and what looked like a chemical burn” and eventually sent her home

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