Fred wrote:
> I just saw a commercial for tonight's (11/1) "Inside Edition".
[...]
http://www.insideedition.com/ourstor...px?storyid=458
> Stephanie Edington is a beautiful teenager facing a very grown up
> nightmare. Doctors recently gave her a horrible choice: have her breast
> removed or die.
>
> Stephanie is not suffering from breast cancer; it was all due to a
> terrible infection she says she got after she had a body piercing on her
> 18th birthday.
>
> Now her left breast has been completely removed, and Stephanie is
> struggling to recover. Her heartbreaking story has thrust this small
> town girl from Indiana into the national spotlight. Newspapers all over
> the world picked it up, and it was even talked about on Howard Stern's
> radio show.
>
> Stephanie got her piercing at a tattoo and piercing parlor on her
> birthday with a sign on the window that reads "Pan Free Piercings."
> Stephanie says that within a few weeks, the pain in her left breast
> became excruciating.
>
> "I was just scared so I went to the emergency room, I figured maybe
> they'd just give me some antibiotics," Stephanie told INSIDE EDITION.
>
> By the time she arrived at the hospital, doctors gave her just four
> hours to live.
>
> "I said I want a second opinion," Stephanie's mom said. "He said you
> don't have time for a second opinion, she won't make it."
>
> Dr. Robert Goulet broke the horrible news to Stephanie. He showed the
> CAT scan to INSIDE EDITION, where her left breast can be seen as twice
> the size of her right breast.
>
> The owners of the tattoo parlor says they did nothing wrong, but that's
> no comfort to Stephanie who is still in the hospital. All her
> heartbroken mom can do is hold her daughter's hand and watch her suffer.
>
> "I'm infuriated," she says. "There's no one protecting our kids who are
> getting this done everyday."
Terrible for the girl, obviously, but infections happen. Relatively
recently, a local boy lost his feet, one hand, and most of his other
hand after a fight with staph infection. Doctors couldn't pinpoint
specifically where the boy encountered the infection, however it may
have been something as simple as a scrape during a baseball game.
Google staph infection, lost limbs and see what you see. Bad news. The
girl is lucky it was "only" a breast.
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Curt
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