Aimee Copeland, Girl With Flesh-Eating Disease, Gets Free Home Addition From Volunteers

ATLANTA -- A builder says it will construct a home addition at no charge that's designed to help with the rehabilitation of a Georgia woman who's been battling a flesh-eating disease.

Executives with Pulte Homes of Bloomfield Hills, Mich., say its workers and partners are volunteering to construct the two-story 1,956-square-feet addition to Aimee Copeland's suburban Atlanta home. Company officials say the addition, expected to be completed within 40 days, will include a new bedroom, a fitness room for rehabilitation and a study area.

The 24-year-old suffered a deep cut May 1 when she fell from a broken zip-line over a west Georgia river. She then contracted a rare infection called necrotizing fasciitis.

Doctors amputated her leg, foot and both hands. She's now recovering at an east Georgia rehabilitation center.

Comments

[wtolsma]

02:37 AM on 07/12/2012

Nice, very Nice! I just hope someone comes and helps them with the energy cost to keep it up if they don't have the money for the utility bills, because this young woman is reallly really something else.

[pslcitizen]

01:54 AM on 07/12/2012

God bless you Aimee!

[TheStreak]

01:41 AM on 07/12/2012

I'm glad to see she's getting some help. Whether or not the family has money isn't going to make their ordeal any less painful. There will always be somebody who needs help, and I don't think it should be based on whether they have money or are attractive. I'd just like to see more of these stories. People helping people. Well done, Pulte Homes of Bloomfield Hills, Mich!

[george martini]

09:48 PM on 07/12/2012

Really, it's no skin off of my back.

[snowball13]

11:25 PM on 07/11/2012

Don't these people already have money?She's in college right.It was a horrible thing that happened to her.Wonder if anyone will help the chubby chick fighting the same sickness.......or is she not cute enough.Just saying.

[grushenka88]

12:48 AM on 07/12/2012

I'm definitely glad she's getting help, but I really wish vets who are amputees or uninsured cancer patients, for example, would get the same support from the community.

[bluedodge47]

12:49 AM on 07/12/2012

going to bash the women that walked into a plane propeller next?? she was was attractive...

[STACEYQ1]

10:55 PM on 07/11/2012

GOD BLESS the builder & all the volunteers for their help & support. They'll be truly bless forever for their big heart

[johnnyplant]

10:34 PM on 07/11/2012

I cry for the victoms of this horrible disease. What bothers me more is where and when did this disease come from, if its man made, damn them all.

[toomuchdebt]

08:04 PM on 07/11/2012

Now this is what america looks like..people comming together in a time of need..what a great story for someone so in need...god speed Aimee

[gbaylis]

07:58 PM on 07/11/2012

Excellent gesture people from Pulte Homes, what a classy thing for you to do for Aimee!

[Harlee Cohn Mahmet]

07:03 PM on 07/11/2012

Such a beatiful, generous, kind gesture on the part of "Pulte Homes of Bloomfield Hills, Mich." and their volunteers. This young lady has touched the hearts of so many people..and many who have never met her. She is such a courageous person, to say the least. May G-d continue to bless her and her family.

[cathyreed]

07:01 PM on 07/11/2012

I'm glad she is home. Will modern prosthetics be able to give her a relatively normal life? I've seen some amazing artificial legs on television and at marathons, but I'm not sure about how helpful artificial hands will be. It will be difficult to do so many things without hands.

[cherokee1934]

10:06 PM on 07/11/2012

Some real progress has been made in recent years. My guess is that there will be several companies step forward to help in this young woman's case.

[sheila3fan]

07:00 PM on 07/11/2012

I'm glad to hear this company is giving so much to amiee, but i have one question, why a 2 story addition?????????????/ the poor girl has lost a leg and her other foot??????????

[cherokee1934]

10:04 PM on 07/11/2012

I think that we can be sure that there is a way to get up to the second level. Maybe an elevator?

[tmoon]

06:50 PM on 07/11/2012

Wonderful! But two story? I don't understand.

[Tomp Sheridant]

07:12 PM on 07/11/2012

yes, you do understand it!

[tmoon]

10:37 AM on 07/12/2012

?

[Mountain Joy]

04:36 AM on 07/12/2012

The addition of two stories is to keep with the layout of the home as it is now for it is already a two story home and to add all she'll need to rehabilitate and put in in one level would not add to the house. Also, with all she'll need, and a bedroom is included, the property restrictions my have them at limited land use. THIS story is a heart warming one for Aimee shows such marvelous courage and has a positive outlook of inspiration. Blessings to her and her family and PULTE builders also.

[tmoon]

10:37 AM on 07/12/2012

I agree THIS is a heart warming story. I was just a bit confused.

[olitenup]

06:48 PM on 07/11/2012

What a lovely, compassionate show of support.

[Azbo61]

06:34 PM on 07/11/2012

I wish the ignorant press and media would stop calling this a "flesh-eating" disease....it is a bacterial infection that proliferates fast and destrpys skin and fatty tissue which offers little rrsistence...all infections do this to some degree if left untreated...the fatty tissue has no natural barriers to stop in and is made up uf 98% water...not much to hold back any infection....

[Caitlin Davis]

06:47 PM on 07/11/2012

I agree. That term is disturbing and inaccurate. We'
re not idiots HP, we don't need attention grabbing catch phrases. Just give us the news in a halfway intelligent manner please.

[MsMesuggah]

07:11 PM on 07/11/2012

The bacteria "consumes" healthy flesh.

How are bacteria classified according to the production of organic material for the energetic metabolism?
Most bacteria are heterotroph, they do not produce their own food.

Does that sound better to ya ?

[sheryllynne1]

06:22 PM on 07/11/2012

Thank you Pulte Home Builder, a wonderful gift you are giving this young lady! So typical of a Michigan based Company or of Michigan residents..a very compassionate, caring people. Of course I am a Michigander and very proud of our Christian heritage!