She became one of the 180,000 Australians who pick up an infection in hospital - in her case, the potentially fatal superbug Staphylococcus aureus , or golden staph. The metal screws that held her spinal brace together became home to the bacteria and for years refused to die as one antibiotic after another was tried but failed to kill the infection.

 

 

''The screws began to protrude through my skin, then they turned black and I had a colostomy bag attached to my back to drain the infection. Black pus just poured out of me and I kept having to go back to hospital because I would get septicaemia and my body would shut down.''

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