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Victim struggles to speak out on devastating illness

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    Flesh-eating bacteria cripples Georgia family

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I think they're too young really -- asked questions.

-- -- They know that -- -- fake Desiree Alfredsson and six year old Ashland and her little brother Jermaine don't understand why it is taking them mama so long to feel better.

The young -- mother recalls having flu like symptoms that lasted more than a week.

Then lying in a hospital bed and her mother telling her.

She has flesh eating bacteria.

That was scary because I honestly thought -- I was apparently and everything.

That I wouldn't be here for my kids doctors he moved to baseball sized chunks of tissue and muscle -- -- lower torso.

Weeks later she is now recovering at her mother's home she's able to walk a few steps at a time.

Kathy badly tears up when she watches her daughter struggles that the pain and the failure.

You know that some families don't affect the White House.

Also -- doctors don't know how she got the bacteria that told her she faces months of recovery.

She says it's frustrating not to be able to take care of her children.

The little things I -- -- my kids back.

May and I -- -- were actually on our -- -- -- eternity go to school on the morning.

But you know she's lucky doctors caught the infection before it's ready even further if they wouldn't for everybody's prayers I'm not when the year.

And I mean I just thank god that I am here.

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