More than a year after her daughter's murder, Teri Roberts faces another loss: both hands and feet were amputated due to a rare infection. 
 
 Video: Family ready to move forward after another loss 
 
 Roberts has the determination to deal with devastation. She's done it every day since Aug. 21, 2013 -- the night deputies found her daughter, Andrea Kruger, murdered near 168th and Fort streets. 
 
 Roberts went to the hospital 15 months later, thinking she had a bad case of the flu. 
 
 "They diagnosed her with Group A streptococcus and within 12 hours she pretty much became unresponsive," 
 
 Her son, Ryan Roberts, waited by her side as she lay in a coma for 12 days, battling an infection that led to toxic shock syndrome. 
 
 "Her whole body shut down, kidneys failed, liver failed," Ryan Roberts said. 
 
 Ryan Roberts was preparing to lose another loved one. Four hours before Teri Roberts was to be taken off life-support, a phone call was delivered by her father. 
 
 "He said, 'Mom woke up, she doesn't have to be with Andrea yet,'" Ryan Roberts said. "It was the best Christmas present I could have ever imagined." 
 
 After her hands and feet were amputated after Teri Roberts' infection caused gangrene, her will to fight is being tested again. 
 
 "We've got a large uphill battle ahead of us," Ryan Roberts said. 
 
 With prosthetics and prayer, patience and faith -- Ryan Roberts said his family will adjust and become stronger. 
 
 "It was hard for me, dealing with myself that I gave up on my mom and she didn't give up on herself," Ryan Roberts said. "(It) taught me never give up." 
 
 Teri Roberts' doctor said there's no explanation as to how or why she got the streptococcus infection and subsequent toxic shock syndrome. She will now go to the QLI rehabilitation center to learn how to use her prosthetic hands and feed. 
 
 She has told family and friends that she will learn how to walk again. 

 Teri’s Heroic Story: Teri Roberts is a daughter, wife, mother, grandma, sister and friend to many. She has lived in Valley, Nebraska most of her life and has always made her family, friends and community a priority. Teri married Kent Roberts and together they raised two children, Andrea and Ryan who gave them 5 beautiful grandchildren. Teri served on the school board, attended her children’s games and worked to help take care of her family. She’s fun, happy, kind hearted and her family means everything to her. When Teri’s daughter was murdered in 2013, it was a devastating and indescrib-able pain. However, Teri quit her job to take care of her daughter’s three kids during the day. She knew this was what needed to be done, so she did it. Sadly, in early December 2014, Teri began feeling ill thinking she may have had the ﬂu. Three days later Teri woke up and could not breathe. Upon arriving at the ER she was admitted to ICU, without a known cause of her illness. Within 24 hours Teri slipped into unconsciousness and tested positive for Group A Streptococcus and Toxic Shock Syndrome. We were told she had a 50/50 chance to live.As days went by, Teri’s condition declined as liver and kidneys shut down. She was given medication directed towards saving her main organs. The toxins were escaping her body through blisters that popped up all over her body. Teri was put on a ventilator and dialysis was started. At this point Teri’s chance for survival had dropped to a mere 30 percent. On Dec 21, the doctors were convinced that there was no hope and delivered the news to her friends and family that we would lose our beloved Teri. With so many prayers said by so many people, a miracle occurred on December 22. Teri woke up and was ready to ﬁght for her life!Slowly but with amazing determination, Teri is working her way back. Teri has gone from feeding thru IV’s to eating small bites of hamburger which helped increase her strength. She’s regained liver and kidney function and her body has continued to heal. Even so, Teri’s hands and feet could not sustain the damage and sadly on January 10 both Teri’s hands were amputated at the wrist and both of her feet were taken all the way up to eight inches below her knees. Teri’s response to this was, “I’m just letting the other people ﬁnally catch up to me!” Her strength, determination and zest for life are simply inspiring. Teri has a long road ahead of her, yet her spirit is awesome! When you walk into her hospital room you’re greeted with a huge smile. She believes that everything happens for a reason and we just don’t know what it is yet. Teri is now in physical therapy and will soon head to rehab and will be ﬁtted for her prosthetics. All of this comes with a great deal of pain, suﬀering, expense and stress. Our goal is to support her through this journey and to ease the ﬁnancial burden. Please consider a donation. 
 
 Help spread the word! Share Tweet 2.2k total shares total shares
– "About four hours before we took her off life-support," son Ryan Roberts says, his mom awoke from a 12-day coma. Teri Roberts, 56, went into a coma in December after getting a rare skin bacteria that led to toxic shock syndrome. Her family, devastated at the apparently impending death of the previously healthy and active Nebraska woman, planned to tell doctors a few days before Christmas to take her off the ventilator. Instead, she suddenly awoke, and her husband explained to her that her hands and feet, black with gangrene, would need to be amputated. "He held up her hands so she could see them, and she shrugged and said, 'OK,'" Ryan Roberts tells the Omaha World-Herald. This is just the latest hardship the family has had to endure: Teri's only other child, a daughter, was murdered in 2013. The family just took the story public last week. It's not clear how Roberts contracted the bacteria that led to her condition, but her prognosis looked grim as she lay in the coma: Her limbs started to die, her kidneys and liver started to fail, and she developed blisters all over her body. Ryan and his father made the difficult decision after much discussion of what Teri would want—and what her chances were of coming out of the coma. But, hours before their scheduled meeting to inform doctors, she woke up and told her family she didn't want to die. Her kidneys and liver began to recover, and her hands and legs were amputated last month. She was set to leave the hospital this week, start rehab, and be fitted with prosthetics, and Ryan says she's determined to walk and drive again, and adds, according to KETV, that the experience has taught him to "never give up." Her insurance won't cover all the medical bills, so a GoFundMe campaign has raised nearly $32,000 so far. (A boy who said he went to heaven while in a coma recently admitted he was lying.)