Last April, Deer Park, Texas, high school teacher Sherri Moody started feeling sick following a school field trip — something she initially dismissed as a run-of-the-mill illness.

The couple is taking comfort in each other and the support of their community, which has rallied to help the family with fundraisers and updates on a Facebook page dedicated to Sherri Moody.

A devastating disease took her mobility but not her zest for life, former Deer Park teacher Sherri Moody inspiring through her positivity.

Woman's strep infection leads to sepsis, ‘mummified' hands and feet, amputation “I just choose to be happy," Sherri Moody says as she adjusts to life after the ordeal ...

Sherri and David Moody were shocked by her out-of-the-blue, life-threatening health crisis. After her extremities turned black during her treatment, she had to have her limbs amputated.