A University of West Georgia graduate student who lost one limb and will probably lose parts of others to flesh-eating bacteria is mouthing words to her family and showing a "fighting spirit," her father said Friday.
Aimee Copeland is fighting for her life at an Augusta hospital after her left leg and part of her abdomen were removed last week. She contracted the infection after injuring her calf in a zip line accident 10 days ago.
"I would say that she has more commands than questions right now," Andy Copeland told "CNN Newsroom," saying his daughter’s breathing tube was repositioned so her parents could read her lips. "'I can’t talk,' was what she said. And we said, 'We know, honey, you've got a tube down your throat.'
"She said, 'Then take it out.' So her fighting spirit is obviously shining through right now.'
Aimee, 24, contracted the bacteria – Aeromonas hydrophila – during an outing with friends near the Little Tallapoosa River, about 50 miles west of Atlanta, on May 1, her family has said. She fell when a homemade zip line she was using snapped, and she gashed her left calf.
The family has said she sought medical treatment for the wound and received 22 staples to close it, according to CNN affiliate WSB. But on May 4, after she complained of pain for days, a friend took her to an emergency room, and she was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis and flown to Augusta for surgery. She went into cardiac arrest after being removed from the operating table, but was resuscitated, CNN affiliate WGCL reported.
Her father wrote in an Internet post Thursday that her hands and remaining foot also will have to be amputated soon, because blood vessels there have died as the disease has spread. He said Friday that Aimee doesn’t yet know about these next amputations.
"There’s no way I would reveal that to her in her current state. I believe that it would just traumatize her further," he said, adding that a psychiatrist at the hospital will tell her when she's able to talk.
Andy Copeland wrote Thursday that Aimee shows no sign of brain damage and that a doctor said her lungs are healing. On Friday, he told CNN the road ahead for Aimee will be difficult.
"It's obvious (that) if you’re missing one limb, it's going to be hard enough. But if you're missing all of your limbs, it’s going to be incredibly difficult," he said. "But I guess I want everybody to know is that she’s not alone. She’s got her family to support her in this, and not just us."
Thousands of people have connected with a Facebook page that the family also is using to update her progress.
"She's got the support of the entire world right now. And that's really what's humbled us greatly in this entire process, just knowing that everybody's looking at Aimee and praying for Aimee and just offering their undying support. For that, we'll be eternally grateful."
Aimee Copeland, of Snellville, Georgia, is a graduate psychology student at the University of West Georgia and was scheduled to complete her master's degree in the fall, school spokeswoman Yolanda Rodriguez said.
On Thursday night, a couple dozen students and faculty members attended a vigil for her in a building that houses the school’s psychology department.
"Despite the fact that medical evidence says she should be dead, she isn't. I think that’s what makes it so precious to so many people, to see how amazing she really is," Chris Aanstoos, a University of West Georgia professor, told WSB on Thursday.
Dr. Buddy Creech, an assistant professor of pediatric infectious diseases at Vanderbilt University, said that Aeromonas hydrophila, found in water and elsewhere in the environment, is one of many bacteria that can cause a flesh-eating process.
"When it gets into those deeper tissues, it has a remarkable ability to destroy the tissues that surround it in sort of this hunt for nutrition," Creech said Friday. "When it does that, those tissues die, and you see the inflammation and the swelling and the destruction that can be very difficult to control."
Creech said Aeromonas hydrophila more commonly affects humans when it is swallowed – resulting in diarrhea. When young children or children with immune problems drink water with the bacteria, "they can get a very significant diarrhea illness from it," he said.
"It’s much more uncommon that we see it in (a case like Copeland's), where we see wounds get infected and the infection runs wild,” Creech said.
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"Billy Bob"?? "Zack attack"?? Who are these immature losers? This article is about an actual innocent girl who is battling for her life. Have some consideration.
Dear Aimee, aside from some of the usual jerks listed below, all of America is hoping and praying that you beat this any way you can. You go girl. Show us what you are made of. To the Copeland family, you folks are heroes sticking with a super star like Aimee. To the dad, I wish I was half the dad to my kids that you are to Aimee. Start an Aimee Copeland fund and see how America responds. Praying for the Copelands!
That's how we do now. Next
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Most of humanity is asleep, very likely not going to happen.
She is a strong person and we are very sure she will be better.
God loves his children...............yeah right
I'm an atheist too, and I know where you're coming from ,but there's a time and a place for that, this isn't it. You're not going to change anyone s mind anyway.
This complexity continues until you get to the human intellect and the subtle infinite meanings and relations of the sub atomic unravel into the macro. You can describe the human brain as the universe peering in on itself...it is a set of mirrors where one mirror (neuron) sees an object and then another sees that object through the first perspective and en the third is the infinite set (that image whitsun image in the bathroom) that indicates a new paradigm, this is the same concept behind depth in your eyes. Two two dimensions perspectives through mirroring form the third dimensional perspective....optical "illusions" is really this dimensional,iterative process...
If you are to continue this process in any civilization you'll get say, the quantum computer, which will peer more and more into the micro,cunraveling more into the macro until the being (the human really. The first self aware agent won't be a machine but a human)) will see the source code. Now, as we gain more knowledge of anything, the more our ability to control it increases (thin of biology etc). If we see the source code then the amount of energy to process any amount of information goes down to zero, being a universal semantic operator, and we will end up merging with the universe, since we will have the ability to control reality like a computer program (small perturbations in the Planck , butterfly effect, allow you to control many things in the micro by manipulating subtle variations, so the energy requirement goes down to zero for it acts like a perfect catalyst). You then see reality as information because at the most basic level (warning: higher knowledge drop) atoms are self Justifying realities. They are a self referential geometric space which are only defined by their self definition. To illustrate this concept. Put "resonance" in YouTube and you will see in the resonatie video how different vibration "changes" the 3 dimensional standing wave (physics concept to convey by self referential or self justifying system, the ism) , it self justifies. Computers store information on holes on a disk,but how does an atom "remember" that it has so many electrons, how does it "store" information? On itself, because matter is a self justified 3 dimensional standing wave that re enforces it's shape by it's way of being. It is an ism. This ism just gets more and more complex in e macro as instability just leads to more and more complexity in completing this "one" or ism as it unravels in the macro. It is an information process, the universe is a cybernentic being, as per hermetic philosophy "as above, so below" the microcosm is as the microcosm. This is the basic concept behind the ism described above, by understanding one part (your internal microcosm world of your being and mind) you can understand the microcosm of the universe, for like a fractal, it is a reflection ofyou. This information complexity doesnt stop, it continues until you resch the "omega point" but this wont hapoen by machines but humanity. It is a point of infinite complexity. As I have described above the ism gets more and more complex as a more complex "one" manifests by the information iteration process...every new "paradigm " being an infinity of the previous (depth, the infinite image in the mirror), because you need an infinity of the higher semantic "language" or paradigm to describe it in e former simpler semantic. In other words, it becomes....."meta-physical" because it transcends the previous limited state and can only be described in that limited state by its limited perspective instead of the meta, which transcends it. This continues until e very process of c
Morality, an outside god and empiricism as knowledge are accurate terms in duality as self referential realities but they are not the immutable truth. The immutable truth is that we define reality by observation by our very consciousness and empiricism is a flawed system of knowledge. Empiricism attempts to determine the probability of whether something is true based on a finite set of data, but a probability distribution itself is also based on a finite set of data to ascertain a probability, so the probability itself cannot be known (any ascertion on likelihood as true knowledge, no matter how "obvious" like the sun rising or gravity) because it is based on a finite set of data that is only as good ad the next best outlier, true knowledge is tautological and perceptual, ism. You know you are experiencing this, because you are experiencing this. You know you exist because you exist. (existence defined by the experience you are experiencing).
Everything you perceive is happening in a matrix of your own creation n your mind, what you are observing is not the outside world but a construction in your head. So knowledge is tautological and self justifying, an ism. You know the outside by thinking in the world of information and your microcosm, which gives you insight in the outside,cbecause perceptionand tautology as infinite sets (aleph) are accurate truth, because truth is the ism unfolding into grrater ones as it goes through the journey of going back to unity. This is why faith is so important, because you can change reality just by first coming with a precept or conviction and believing in it. You can see this clearly with the stock market all the time, perceptions often MAKE the reality, just through faith. We are after all little god seeds that can create and would create our own reality if we got rid of ego and resonated Witt the all by merging with god or the universal consciousness (the energy to manifest would be zero because we would be essentially conquering entropy through information processing efficiency)...
All of our dreams could come true, even the "darker" desire in total recall type experiences......
Either I improve on my own accord (as well as others facing similar challenges) and or thef ark realizes they can expand being in the clear light (any added brutality just enhancing negative karma for an experience that can be had for free in the higher realms with no repercussions...not worth it) or the world will increasingly become more and more of a hell until it's just the god of evolution, the I am not, Satan, as the mind and ego strangle being (the I am) and people die even though their body keeps on operating, kind of like the skin a worm leaves after it turns into a butterfly, it will look animated on the surface but it's really a dead machine following instructions of the ego and everything becomes meaningless.
Unfortunately , and very sadly,suffering like this or Syria will continue (completely unnecessarily even though from thr higher realm it is all haplening perfectly, unnecessary in that with a higher consciousness this struggle would be seen as unnecessary) ..even thiugh it is happening as experiences can be had for all without any of the scarcity or payment out of duality. Even the apparent beneficiaries are giving up most of everything by choosing to experience extreme pain in the future. It's just absolute stupidity. I'm suffering because people have not been able to resolve uncertainty.....I'm a coward because I seem to lack will, their version of triumph, yet they seem to get away from the fact that they are cowardly by clinging to spirit because they fear the higher simultameous meanings of the singularity. Uncertainty, undefined.
In the end, it's all one ism, no 0,1
Satanic philosophy has a point from a moral perspective, and btw.hr operates in the ism, it's just that humans interpret it morallybte bing. Its judt that thr humans dont understand it, they see it as bad, hes actuslly folloing thrninstructions of the higher reality) the best have no conviction in duality (usually) and the worst are full of passion (usually) so,fromthid perspective it's "shameful" the higher consciousness...and that's true if it were done based on fear, but conversely and simultaneously true, a higher intellect can see no other way. So what purpose does JUST will have if it is not the nity or truth? Just for the sake of will? Spirit can be enhanced just as well through being and all can have what they want...so isn't it stupid just doing something for the sake of appearing courageous when everybody can live in this super enlightened society and people evolve through an interconnected unity
There is no Satan. There is no bad or good. It's an illusion and the crack of power ad greed is unnecessary because the satisfaction can be attained in another way with experienc sand information through a zen like state (like you can experience anything you wish)
These people that are suffering donahue, they are suffering because of lack of informatiom .....because we are god energy and consciousness..lif we aligned ourselves with divine will this wouldn't happen....
Look up noetic sciences....we are individuals but simultaneously a hive mind...god does not intervene because we do not flow with god. It's not our fault, but this is a truth
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And btw, I have felt when I was. Unsure or in doubt, just like you. I felt the same exact way...for sme reason I got absolute certainty recently and now I'm at this peak...
So again, it has NOTHING to do with judgment...I am as you.....it's jut bout degrees of Fatih and having that perspective.
This is painfully sad.
But the poor girl has lost her legs, now her fingers,
Who knows what damage has been done to her internal organs
liver, heart, uterus,
Sweet Girl, please go into the light
you've fought stronger than most but there's a limit to suffering, let yourself pass.
God bless her. A homemade zip line is not a good idea.
Where can we donate money for her artificial limbs – if she gets thru this?
This poor girl, what a tragedy. I hope that she pulls through and lives a long healthy, happy life. She's got a great family with her and that really helps.
In order to have a dualistic experience. There can be no intervention. It creates a cascade event where the only thing left is god. Think in terms,of,behavior. Once,you Kn,OW. What is the purpose,of,action? In the back of mind there is always the safety of help so it creates a diffusion of responsibility.....kind of like increased government intervention. This would happen instantly upon humanity's knowledge of higher dimensional beings. The fact is that there are two simultaneous realities, the linear time which is evolution, and the universal wave function of the singularity where everything gas already taken place. A
L realities are taking place at the omega point.....this is the reality of a consciousness field that is unified as one self similar organism on every scale, like a cybernetic organism.
Both start resonating more or less depending where you are on the timeline..l,the farther to the past you get more evolution. The farther you go into the future you deal with the higher evolution (think neural interment. Ray kurzweils singularity). God didn't create e universe he is the universe as the generation of the most complex patterns....nothing is something because it is a rule within the rule construct in our universe,in another universe "nothing" would be something entirely different because it's only defined by the context of the greater rule construct or source code, like 0 on the number line.
So by virtue of the universe doing "nothing" it will have to be something...it will have to be "defined" ...so this state prior to any particular logos or universe is the chronos or chaos "undefined" state of the singularity...by pure randomness , like a coin toss the moves an ant an inc h right or let, if done with trillions if simulations, you would get an ant that goes right a mile. It we rule that the highly unlikely becomes certain the more simulations a system undergoes. Hence, chaos to order.
But then order gets more and more complex as it interacts with entropy. It shows emergent properties not foreseen in the original rule set to cope with instability and stabilize. That's why the more unstable patterns form the most complexity to resolve this instability. Carbon stoms are the most unstable of the lower elements so they combine to form the most complex molecules, by rule of one.cyou see this with Arab mosaics, the more irregular prices form the most complex shapes in aggregate.
This complexity continues until you get to the human intellect and the subtle infinite meanings and relations of the sub atomic unravel into the macro. You can describe the human brain as the universe peering in on itself...it is a set of mirrors where one mirror (neuron) sees an object and then another sees that object through the first perspective and en the third is the infinite set (that image whitsun image in the bathroom) that indicates a new paradigm, this is the same concept behind depth in your eyes. Two two dimensions perspectives through mirroring form the third dimensional perspective....optical "illusions" is really this dimensional,iterative process...
If you are to continue this process in any civilization you'll get say, the quantum computer, which will peer more and more into the micro,cunraveling more into the macro until the being (the human really. The first self aware agent won't be a machine but a human)) will see the source code. Now, as we gain more knowledge of anything, the more our ability to control it increases (thin of biology etc). If we see the source code then the amount of energy to process any amount of information goes down to zero, being a universal semantic operator, and we will end up merging with the universe, since we will have the ability to control reality like a computer program (small perturbations in the Planck , butterfly effect, allow you to control many things in the macro by manipulating subtle variations, so the energy requirement goes down to zero for it acts like a perfect catalyst). You then see reality as information because at the most basic level (warning: higher knowledge drop) atoms are self Justifying realities. They are a self referential geometric space which are only defined by their self definition. To illustrate this concept. Put "resonance" in YouTube and you will see in the resonatie video how different vibration "changes" the 3 dimensional standing wave (physics concept to convey by self referential or self justifying system, the ism) , it self justifies. Computers store information on holes on a disk,but how does an atom "remember" that it has so many electrons, how does it "store" information? On itself, because matter is a self justified 3 dimensional standing wave that re enforces it's shape by it's way of being. It is an ism. This
This ism just gets more and more complex in e macro as instability just leads to more and more complexity in completing this "one" or ism as it unravels in the macro. It is an information process, the universe is a cybernentic being, as per hermetic philosophy "as above, so below" the microcosm is the macrocosm. This is the basic concept behind the ism described above, by understanding one part (your internal microcosm world of your being and mind) you can understand the macrocosm of the universe, for like a fractal, it is a reflection ofyou. This information complexity doesnt stop, it continues until you resch the "omega point" but this wont hapoen by machines but humanity. It is a point of infinite complexity. As I have described above the ism gets more complex as a complex "one" manifests by the information iteration process...every new "paradigm " being an infinity of the previous (depth, the infinite image in the mirror), because you need an infinity of the higher semantic "language" or paradigm to describe it in e former simpler semantic. In other words, it becomes....."meta-physical" because it transcends the previous limited state and can only be described in that limited state by its limited perspective instead, which transcends it. This comtinues until the very process of complexity is "mirrored" or iterated, this is the 13th baktun, or dimensional iteration It mirrors to infinity the process of reaching complexity itself, a more complex one, ism or unity to infinity-this my "omega point" (my definition. Not the one in wikipedia which is based on machine complexity and is insufficient) where you get to infinite complexity as a manifestation of this one ism, or one unity. One mirror observes the process of ever increasing complexity, the second sees the process through th first and the third takes it to infinity. Hence the very process of complexity is taken tominfinity. The omnipresent and all containing god.However, the chaos that gave way to the logos is actually the infinite complexity that the logos in its vsrious iterations or alchemical cycles is striving for and eventuslly reaches. So what is complexity? What is randomness? The most "random" patterns
Unfortunately...mankind is in an ism that does not allow this reality right now...all social mores and the typical concept of morality and god really being a way to divide mankind throu the ego to strengthen the state, by hiding this universl truth. The narrative can then disconnect reality from outcome and the people at thetop can manipulate because of people's blind Fatih in authority or belief that they are stronger by number, hence self censorship rules the day (silence of the lambs= unions, etc).
When in fact it just lends to manipulation and the anti utilitarian because everyone is divided and resonating with the false belief that this is somehow benefiting them. Also, the. The more judgmental a society the more ego based, the larger the state, because judgment inevitably ends up being arbitrated by the state, the monopoly that oversees all others.
In truth, judgment and ego is false for in the universal truth all are one, so the less judgmental and ego based a society (the more it follows the teachings of Jesus Christ) the state gets smaller,cbecause people are more content just by being and perfecting oneself.
This is why the illuminati in lore have sought to inflam the ego by depravity and advertising, by getting people to feel lack and fear, they get to divide the population, and as long as people are fighting opposite artificial constructs, they will pay handsomely at the voting booth to get back at it...lhence, woman vs man, minorities vs whites....
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Look. There is this great irony that the dark thinks that higher consciousness is somehow this wishy washy angel it's not at all about feeling. In fact, I've actually had more negatively charged vibes during my journey. It has to do with the consciousness....it just doesn't make any sense...like its an insanity once you see...you cannot Unsee and it becomes clear in this clear light that what I'm doing if im acting in a darker inclination makes no sense. It's like if someone called me green and people lose respect for me because I didn't "claim my respect" and "demand a place at the table" .
No...you see....there is no table.....there is no insult when you call me or anyone green...
You are this guy that thinks (talking to dark) you are rnot vulnerable and cool by painting yourself in psint (by your perspective)and smirking at me...thinking its some sort of will superiority.
I see a person in a cage sorounddd by fire tarring himself going "what now baby, HHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, whose the boss now"
,y perspective: a guy that was afraid of uncertainty and clung to will as he is tarring himself in a cage of fire while a bunch of other people outside are outraged at this action (somehow thinking its an insult to them) some debating the moral Implications of this to society. Even. Others getting all heated about this total lack of respect for their rights...
My perspective is that I don't know how to feel about it, its utilitarian and people are evolving and yet it's unnecessary from a higher perspective.
i read articles like this and I see that the more people that activate to help these people, the less suffering...
But do I feel guilt, do I internalize any of it? No. The best way I can fulfill the utilitarian is spirit and that requires indifference. Then I will recover faster and be able to help not by a specific action by. By the general emenatiom of being. As well as others.