Sunday, May 27, 2012 
 
 AUGUSTA, Ga. -- Aimee Copeland has spoken her first words since being admitted to the hospital at the beginning of May. 
 
 Her father, Andy Copeland, wrote this on Aimee's blog: 
 
 "Today…May 27……is AIMEE DAY!!! 
 
 Sunday, Aimee has finally spoken her first words. I will follow with details tonight." 
 
 Aimee, a 24-year-old graduate student, acquired necrotizing faciitis after falling from a zipline and cutting her leg on May 1. 
 
 The family had been looking forward to "Aime Day," a nickname for the day when she'd be able to breathe on her own. 
 
 Her family is really trying to keep the positive energy up and says Aimee is still not aware of the national attention she is getting. 
 
 She is aware of the blood drives, her father's big push since the beginning of this whole ordeal. They said Aimee was amazed by the amount of blood donations they have already received. 
 
 To keep up with Aimee's progress, you can follow her blog here. 
 
 ||||| The father of a young Georgia woman battling a flesh-eating disease says his daughter has spoken for the first time since she was taken to an Augusta hospital weeks ago for treatment. 
 
 Writing on his Facebook page, Andy Copeland declared Sunday "Aimee Day," saying: "Our baby can talk." 
 
 No further details were available, but by Monday morning more than 100 well-wishers had posted encouraging comments. 
 
 Twenty-four-year-old Aimee Copeland developed necrotizing fasciitis after cutting her leg in a May 1 fall from a homemade zip line over a west Georgia river. Her left leg, other foot and both hands have been amputated. 
 
 She began breathing on her own last week and was able to sit up in a chair on Thursday.
– For the first time in nearly a month, flesh-eating bacteria sufferer Aimee Copeland has graduated from mouthing words to actually speaking, reports WRDW. "Today…May 27……is AIMEE DAY!!!" her father blogged yesterday; her family has been using the phrase to refer to the day she would be capable of breathing independently, which happened last week. "Our baby can talk," writes Andy Copeland, who adds that Aimee still doesn't know her case is garnering national press.