A woman who was hailed a 'medical miracle' after surviving her sepsis battle has had to have all four limbs amputated. At the end of last year, 35-year-old Sadie Kemp went into septic shock and revealed her two children are the "main reason" why she is "getting on with it”.
Almost a year after her body went into septic shock, the Cambridgeshire mum has now had to have 10 fingers amputated and both legs below the knee. The mum from Peterborough had been waiting to see if doctors could save more of her right leg but it was later confirmed that both legs would need to be amputated below the knee as they were both necrotic from the sepsis.
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition that occurs when your immune system responds to an infection and starts to damage your body’s tissue and organs or they become necrotic. Septic shock happens when someone with sepsis has a severe drop in blood pressure which can be fatal.
