A carpenter suffered a life-threatening stroke, blindness, sepsis and pneumonia - after a wood splinter in his hand got infected. Dave Parkyn was left blind in his right eye, partially sighted in his left and physically disabled after the stroke at the age of just 28.
The carpenter from St Austell, Cornwall, got a splinter of wood caught in his hand whilst working in August 2020. The splinter had festered, leading to bacterial meningitis and the infection rampaged through his body causing massive and severe strokes.
Within two days from coming home from work unwell, Dave was in intensive care in a medically induced coma with machines sustaining all his bodily functions. Dave's mum, Jackie Parkyn, 65, said: "Dave came home from work with a massive headache and feeling really ill.
