She was flown to a hospital, where she says she contracted necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bacteria. It's the same bacteria that Aimee Copeland contracted after a zip-lining accident in the Little Tallapoosa River in May 2012. Necrotizing fasciitis is a bacterial infection caused when contaminated water enters an open wound.

Eleven surgeries later, Giacomi was without a leg and an arm, Channel 2 reported. She also had to move in with her son in Miami.

“This is the worst thing that can happen, really,” she said. “And if it happened to me, it can happen to anyone.”

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