CLARKSVILLE, TN − Austin Peay State University alumna Christina Reyes (‘17) spent the early part of her college journey confined to a hospital bed, battling a rare bacterial disease while finding herself. Now she is sharing her battle for survival, self-discovery, and faith in her first book, Heartbeat.
Reyes enrolled at Austin Peay intending to pursue a journalism degree, but before she could truly start her studies, she was diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis – a life-threatening condition that hospitalized her for a year.
“That was my second year when it happened,” she said. “With the extent of the sickness, I actually had to take a semester off, and I was really disappointed because it’d set me back.”…