HAMBURG TOWNSHIP, Mich. -- All Evelyn Bates-March wants to do is walk on her own.
The 82-year-old Hamburg Township woman used to be sharp as tack, did all of her own housework and tended her own garden. She enjoyed taking walks around the block.
Today, she can't do any of those things. She doubts she ever will.
"I don't do any housecleaning anymore, and I used to do it all," she told the Livingston County Daily Press & Argus (http://bit.ly/19bRnZS ).
"It's very discouraging and depressing," she said.
On Sept. 20, 2012, she went in for a routine shot to relieve her back pain , and nothing has been the same since.
Bates-March was one of 264 Michigan residents who received a tainted steroid injection, developed a fungal meningitis infection and had to undergo a grueling treatment.
She called herself one of the lucky ones; she lived.
In Michigan, 19 people died from fungal meningitis.
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