A Texas mother-of-two narrowly survived a rare-flesh eating bacteria after it infected a torn muscle.
Casey Sommerfeldt was putting away Christmas decorations in her attic last January when she fell and injured a muscle in her chest.
A few days later, her left upper arm began to turn red and swell. It wasn't long before it was bruised and then turned black.
Sommerfeldt rushed herself to the emergency room in Fort Worth, where doctors diagnosed her with necrotizing fasciitis, a fast-moving infection that destroys tissue under the skin, reported NBC 5.
Sommerfeldt was told that strep bacteria had caused the infection and, if they didn't treat her immediately, her arm would need to be amputated.
Luckily, her arm was saved but doctors needed to used a skin graft from her leg to repair the damaged area.
Casey Sommerfeldt (right, with her husband), from Fort Worth, Texas, was putting Christmas decorations away last January when she tripped and tore a chest muscle
A few days later, her upper left arm began swelling and turning red (left) before black blisters formed (right). Sommerfeldt rushed herself to the emergency room, where doctors diagnosed her with necrotizing fasciitis, a flesh-eating bacteria that destroys tissue under the skin
Sommerfeldt told NBC 5 that when she initially injured her chest muscle, she just assumed she would need to rest for a few days and was surprised when her arm began swelling and turning red.
'It became very painful,' she said of the black blisters that formed a few days later.
She went to the hospital to have an MRI done, but the results came back negative.
However, after being in indescribable pain one day,
