Karen Soltero and Molly Setnick with Cardio CrowbarWe wrote about neighborhood residents Molly Setnick and Karen Soltero last year when they opened Cardio Crowbar, a fitness studio on Belmont near Greenville.

Since then, the business has flourished even as Soltero spent a good portion of the past year battling necrotizing fasciitis, a horrible flesh-eating bacterial disease that just about killed her.

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Leslie Barker with the Morning News has a good story about Soltero, her physical challenges and her successful recovery in today’s paper.

The good news is that Soltero is on the mend, her business is going strong and — in the spirit of the season — she has a lot to be thankful for.