Beasley, Allen, Crow, Methvin, Portis & Miles, P.C.

Kim Oake’s voice on the phone is strong. It is hard to believe she is the same woman I first wrote about less than a month ago. Then, she was in the hospital and fighting for her life. Seventy percent of her skin had blistered and peeled away, and she was put into a drug-induced coma to shield her from pain and help her fight infection.

Kim had suffered a severe adverse reaction to a common antibiotic she received after being bitten by a feral cat. She was diagnosed with toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN), the most severe form of Stevens Johnson Syndrome (SJS).

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