Flesh Eating Bacteria Victim, Aimee Copeland, Now Taking Pain Meds

Aimee Copeland, who has been struggling to handle the result of being contaminated with a flesh-eating bacteria after a zip lining accident, has exhausted her 'meditation as medication' ways and is resorting to pain meds now.

It sucks, too, because her convictions were telling her to avoid pain meds at all costs, but she can't.

Here's what her dad said:

"Aimee is now taking pain medication in as liberal a dose as can be prescribed. If she even dared to refuse taking it, which she wouldn't, then the doctors would most certainly administer it in an IV drip. The allowable doses of Morphine, Fentanyl and Lyrica are often inadequate to deal with the pain that Aimee is now experiencing. Please believe me when I say that Aimee's refusal to use pain medication has ceased following her most recent surgery. She is now requesting it ahead of schedule."

Who wouldn't need pain meds after this:

"During the most recent skin graft, her surgeons were forced to take muscle from Aimee's abdomen to create a flap over the iliac artery in her groin. She says that she feels like a patchwork quilt, because her body is a collection of skin grafts and bandages."

Regardless of all of this, though, she still found the strength to wish her dad a happy Father's Day, he recounted on his blog.

We don't know if we could handle what she's going through — and we're impressed by her no matter if she decides to take the meds or not!

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