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 COLLIN COUNTY (CBSDFW.COM) – A young woman went blind in one eye within 24 hours after catching a flesh-eating bacteria during a mud run in Dallas this month. Brittany Williams has no insurance and, after a week week in the hospital, now owes more than $100,000 in medical bills — even as she faces more treatment to prevent the debilitating bacteria from spreading through her body. “My eye started hurting, like maybe I’ve got mud or some debris in there,” said Brittany Williams, who finished her first mud run two weeks ago. “When I opened my eye, it was just like white. She was seen at the ER that night and told that she has several abrasions on her cornea and what looked like a chemical burn - that she had a very slim chance of ever seeing out of that eye again. Tuesday evening, things took a turn for the worse and Brittany was admitted into the hospital. The whole room was white.” 
 
 Williams said the debris cut her eye, allowing flesh-eating bacteria to destroy her cornea. Brittany, upon leaving a Mud Run on Monday with her fiancé, started experiencing severe pain and vision loss in her left eye. Her medical bills are $100,000 and she doesn’t have health insurance. I never went to the doctor and I just spent lots of money for nothing. So I didn’t see the point at the time when we couldn’t afford it,” said Williams. (©2015 CBS Local Media, a division of CBS Radio Inc. All Rights Reserved. “You don’t think you’re going to go to the doctor and someone’s gonna say you owe $3,000 for eye drops,” said Williams, who compared her experience to a horror movie. There is a chance she could regain her sight, but several doctors have refused to treat her because she doesn’t have insurance. “Even though people go through horrible things, I make the best of it,�? Because there’s no point in sitting and sulking, because it’s just going to make the rest of my days miserable,” she said.
– A young mother in Texas who holds down two jobs but doesn't have health insurance is in the fight of her life—doing battle with not just the necrotizing fasciitis that has already claimed the vision in her left eye but also with her $100,000 medical bill. It all started a few hours after a mud run in Dallas earlier this month. "My eye started hurting, like maybe I've got mud or some debris in there," Brittany Williams tells CBS DFW. "When I opened my eye, it was just like white. The whole room was white.... [The bacteria] just completely melted off of my eye." She suspects that debris cut her eye, providing an entryway for the bacteria; CBS reports it has destroyed her cornea. And while some doctors have told her it's possible she'll someday regain vision in that eye with surgery, she needs antibiotics to prevent the bacteria from spreading to other parts of her body and several doctors are denying her treatment because she has no insurance. (Her GoFundMe page is currently at around $11,500. An updated posted there on Tuesday notes "we were asked to leave [an appointment] and told we could no longer be treated within their facility secondary to lack of insurance and full payment.") Williams' ordeal isn't exactly rare, reports the New York Daily News. Just last week, dozens of mud runners in France became violently ill from gastroenteritis, likely due to bacteria in the mud, while 22 people contracted a diarrheal illness in Nevada in 2012 thanks to bacteria in animal feces on an obstacle course. (In Florida, a "flesh-eating" water bacteria has killed two.)