KELSO, Wash. — A woman from Kelso, Washington, is thankful to be alive and back at home after being in the hospital for multiple days and requiring surgery due to multiple infections she contracted.

Crystal Worel said on Aug. 10, she and her family went to the river in Kalama to enjoy the day. After losing her mother a few months before, she said she needed the day on the water.

Worel said she shaved before heading out, but soon after, she realized something was wrong.

"The next day or two, I started getting a rash.... I just figured it was razor burn," she explained.

As the days progressed, it started to look infected, and she tried to brush it off — until a week later.

“I was walking very bow-legged; it was very painful. Every movement was incredibly hard," she said.

"I ended up wa

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