BALDWIN COUNTY, Ala. (WKRG) — A fun Labor Day on the intracoastal waters of Orange Beach ended with an Alabama woman fighting a rare, flesh-eating bacteria.

"I never thought it could happen to me," Summerlin Skipworth said.

"We took the boat out, beautiful day, I was with my best friends. I mean, it was a great day. I couldn't ask for a better boat day," she added.

The boat day quickly turned into a nightmare.

"I fell off on the border where the rocks are on the water and hurt my feet really bad -- both of them. I tried to stand back up, but I couldn't," Skipworth said. "But I just, it felt like it was broken."

The next day, Skipworth went to work, but a coworker noticed something wasn't right.

"She's like, 'No, it looks infected. You need to go get it checked out,' So, I'm like, oka

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