(WHAS 11) – A Knoxville woman is still gaining back feeling in her hands after multiple surgeries to stop flesh-eating bacteria in her system. Jayne Sharp said she contracted it at a local nail salon. She is a mother, grandmother and a retired dental hygienist. “I entertain all the time, I play cards,” she said. Those things are a little harder to do now. “I can’t shuffle cards when I play bridge,” she said. For a while, Sharp could
barely use her right hand. “I couldn’t even floss my own teeth,” she said. Earlier this spring, Sharp wasn’t sure she’d still be alive to tell the story of how a cut turned into much more. It started with a manicure at Jazzy Nail Bar in Turkey Creek. “While I was there I got stuck on my thumb and I went ‘ouch’ but I went back to looking at my telephone,” said Sharp. Later that day her thumb started throbbing, and then she couldn’t sleep she felt so sick. READ MORE