Friends of Lana Kuykendall, the Greenville woman who was hospitalized with a rare flesh-eating bacteria, are organizing a benefit to raise funds to pay for her medical expenses, WYFF is reporting.
The event is a benefit concert, and is being held at 2 p.m. on June 30 at the Tater Shed amphitheater at Simpsonville City Park.
After giving birth to her babies, Abigail and Ian, Kuykendall was later admitted back into the hospital and diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis, a life-threatening condition.
Kuykendall underwent numerous surgeries to stop the spread of the necrotizing fasciitis. Her family say she continues to improve, as she becomes more alert and less dependent on pain medication.
A week ago, she was able to hold her children for the first time since being stricken with the bacteria.
When I was in Africa I ran into a girl who had a Flesh eating disease all over her right arm, the top of her chest, and half way down her back. I had brought some medicine with me from the U.S. in case I got sick in the middle of nowhere. So I gave her some “Bactrin” which is an anti-biotic similar to Penicillin, and a bar of Ivory Soap. I told her that the Bactrin would help fight the disease on the inside, while the Soap would fight the disease on the outside. I explained to her that there were little tinny bugs inside the scabby disease that were eating through her skin, and that she needed to soak off in water as much of the scabby disease as possible. And then put a little bit of water on top of the bar of Ivory Soap and rub it to make a paste, and dab the paste on the raw open wounds. I told her that it would burn like hell for a minute or so, but then it would start to feel much better. I told her to leave the soap on the wounds all the time to keep them from getting infected, and to wash it off and apply new soap twice a day. I had to leave to work on a dam project, but 8 weeks later I returned to her village and it had killed the disease. You could see the new skin on her back and there was no ugly scaring or discoloration of skin.