The Bridgeport community is coming together to help a woman from a rare skin condition.

Noemie Gomes, a nurse, is suffering from Stevens-Johnson syndrome, which causes severe burns to the skin.

She says it was triggered by a reaction to a common antibiotic she took called Bactrim.

A GoFundMe was set up to help Gomes, who has a son with autism, as she recovers at home.

"The pain was just awful. I was on morphine drips... all the narcotics you can possibly imagine. The pain was not controlled," Gomes says.

She says she used to be a champion fitness competitor but is now simply fighting to recover.