| Lisa was diagnosed with Toxic Shock Syndrome in 1997. “I was given a zero-percent chance of survival,” she says. “I was flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. They cut open my arms and legs to release the pressure that was building up—it’s called ‘compartment syndrome.’ At first they said that if I did survive, they’d have to amputate all four extremities. The only things I ended up losing were three toes and the tips of all my other toes.” Lisa is now married and working as a registered nurse. She uses leg braces to walk, but otherwise she is totally recovered. She still doesn’t know for certain how she got TSS.
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