A hairdresser has been left unable to work after both her hands were amputated because of a severe infection that left her in a coma for nine weeks.
Kim Smith was on holiday in Spain with her husband when she contracted a Urinary Tract Infection (UTI). Her husband Steve took her to the hospital after she complained of intense pain and told him she felt like she "was going to die".
At a hospital in Elda, Spain, Kim was diagnosed with sepsis and immediately put in a coma to save her life. She spent six weeks in a coma at the Spanish hospital, before she was flown home to England, where she was kept unconscious for an additional three weeks.
