A woman is to undergo rare double hand transplant surgery having lost all her limbs to sepsis after suffering a common urinary tract infection (UTI). Kim Smith, 61, spent nine weeks in a coma and had her hands and legs amputated after she contracted the UTI on holiday in Spain with her husband in 2017.
She woke one morning feeling unwell, suffering intense back pain, a fever and felt like she "was going to die". Kim was rushed to the hospital in Elda, Spain, by her husband Steve, 63, after begging him to get her help.
Doctors diagnosed her with sepsis and almost immediately put her into an induced coma, which lasted nine weeks. She was flown back home to England after six weeks before spending three more weeks unconscious in Milton Keynes Hospital.
