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Stevie Barnett has been confined to a wheelchair for about six months, after contracting a near-fatal flesh-eating disease during a trip to Jamaica.

“I made it back home and I went into trauma,” Barnett, a 29-year veteran of the Anne Arundel County Fire Department, said about the intensity of his wound. Barnett’s doctors cut the disease out of his leg, rendering him unable to walk. Barnett was transferred to Genesis Health Care Severna Park Center, where Barnett said the staff has made all the difference.

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