Irene (20) van Terschelling became very ill due to a flesh-eating bacteria: ‘I texted my friends: I am sick, but very strangely ill’

Irene is sitting on the couch in her childhood home on the island. It is the first time since June last year that she is not in a hospital or rehabilitation center. There are bottles of tube feeding and other medicines under and on the kitchen table. Upstairs in her bedroom the painkillers.