“You always hear something like this happening to other people, but you never really pay attention because it really never hits home,” Castleman said.
This time it did.
Until a week and a half ago, Castleman says her mom was quite healthy. She says her only ailment was arthritis.
But on July 20, a group of them from the Fraternal Order of Eagles went swimming in the Gulf between the Hernando and Bayport channels. Freiwald scraped her shin getting back on a boat.
At first, everything seemed okay. The next morning, Freiwald and her boyfriend left for a vacation to Naples. But by nighttime, her leg started to look infected. Three days later, on Wednesday, doctors had to amputate it above the knee.
Source: ABC Action News