A year after a deadly fungal meningitis outbreak tied to tainted pain
shots, victims like Margaret Snopkowski say they remain devastated by
the ordeal — but determined to rebuild their lives.
“I go to work every day, I do my job, my numbers are up,” said Snopkowski, 52, who is a sales person for an engineered cements company in Fowlerville, Mich. “But I literally have to allow myself two hours to get a handle on the pain.”
Snopkowski, whose doctor says she has among the “sickest of the sick,” was hospitalized for months with meningitis, had surgery to remove large abscesses from her spinal column last spring and suffers from an inoperable infection at the base of her spine, one that still requires weekly infusions of a powerful antifungal drug.
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“I go to work every day, I do my job, my numbers are up,” said Snopkowski, 52, who is a sales person for an engineered cements company in Fowlerville, Mich. “But I literally have to allow myself two hours to get a handle on the pain.”
Snopkowski, whose doctor says she has among the “sickest of the sick,” was hospitalized for months with meningitis, had surgery to remove large abscesses from her spinal column last spring and suffers from an inoperable infection at the base of her spine, one that still requires weekly infusions of a powerful antifungal drug.
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