Lana Kuykendall, the South Carolina woman struck by flesh eating bacteria shortly after delivering twins, appears to be well on the road to recovery.
"It's been a long road, a lot of which I don't remember, but we're recovering and that's what matters," Kuykendall told Willie Geist in an exclusive interview on TODAY.
She's moved from a hospital to a rehabilitation facility, and she could go home as early as this week. Last month, she was able to hold her babies for the first time since being infected, and she's now able to walk. Her friends and husband Darren say the babies have been a huge motivator in her fast recovery.
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Lana Kuykendall holding her twins, born in early May.
"It was touch-and go each and every day, and it was stressful," said Darren, a firefighter. "She's very strong. Her faith in God has has really pulled her through -- pulled all of us through. I knew that she was a fighter from the word go, and I love her with all my heart. She's the best thing that ever happened to me."
On May 11, just days after her babies were born, Kuykendall noticed a dark spot on the back of her left leg. Thinking it might be a blood clot, Kuykendall, who is a paramedic, checked herself in to the hospital. By the time Kuykendall went in for.... http://todayhealth.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/07/16/12752928-new-mom-recovering-from-flesh-eating-bacteria-is-a-fighter?lite
