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Flesh Eating Bacteria Victim Begs For Painkillers; Body 'Feels Like A Patchwork Quilt'

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June 19 2012, Published 4:00 a.m. ET

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By Debbie Emery - Breaking Celebrity News Reporter

After attempting to brave agonizing skin-grafting surgeries to replace her bacteria ravaged skin and muscle without painkillers, Aimee Copeland is now pleading for medication to numb the pain.

The 24-year-old from Snellville, Georgia, "had the most difficult pain she’s experienced through her entire ordeal," during the past 48 hours, revealed her father, Andy Copeland, on his heart-wrenching blog on Sunday.

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As Breaking Celebrity News previously reported, Aimee contracted the hideous infection after falling from a homemade zip line into infected water near the Little Tallapoosa River on May 1 and has since lost both her hands, her left leg and right foot as doctors battle to stop the deadly bacteria from spreading.

She had at first been reluctant to take morphine because it was "a traitor to her convictions," she told her dad, hoping she could get through the ordeal without meditation, but the pain turned out to be far too much to handle.

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"Aimee is now taking pain medication in as liberal a dose as can be prescribed," wrote Andy. "If she even dared to refuse taking it, which she wouldn't, then the doctors would most certainly administer it in an IV drip.

"Even so, the allowable doses of Morphine, Fentanyl and Lyrica are often inadequate to deal with the pain that Aimee is now experiencing. Please believe me when I say that Aimee’s refusal to use pain medication has ceased following her most recent surgery. She is now requesting it ahead of schedule," he explained.