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Wales Online
Neil Shaw

'I went to A&E with a fever. Six weeks later I woke up to lose my arm and leg'

A dad who went into hospital with a ''slight temperature'' had his leg and arm amputated after battling sepsis. Junaid Ahmed, 35, was fighting for his life and in a coma for six weeks, and is now trying to raise £100,000 for a bionic arm so he can hug his kids.

He went to A&E with suspected flu, collapsed in A&E and woke up six weeks later in intensive care after being diagnosed with sepsis. The married father-of-two had his right leg, his left arm and left toes amputated.

He has since returned home and is keen to get back to ''normal life'' as soon as possible. Junaid, who works in recruitment, from from, Ilford, East London, said: "I'd had a temperature for a couple of days and it wasn't showing any sign of going away so I decided to go to my local A&E to get it checked out.

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