A mum who collapsed while eating her Christmas dinner woke up in 2022 to be told all her fingers would need to be chopped off.
Sadie Kemp was enjoying the day with her family before she was rushed to hospital with pain in her kidneys.
The NHS worker was placed into an induced coma in hospital and when she woke - in the new year - found her hands and feet had turned black due to a septic reaction to a kidney stone.
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Doctors warned they may have to amputate all four limbs to stop the sepsis from spreading but Sadie's body fought back at the infection.
This week, the mum-of-two had all her fingers removed as they had become too septic to be saved.
The 34-year-old from Peterborough, has been dubbed a medical miracle for surviving the ordeal.
Sadie told the Mirror : “I was eating my Christmas dinner at 2.30pm with my family and having a laugh and by 5pm I was fighting for my life.
“I had decided to build a play kitchen I had bought for my youngest son.
“I thought my back was hurting from bending over and putting all the screws in but then my back pain got worse.
“I said I was going to go for a bath but half an hour later I was screaming in pain on the floor saying I felt like someone was squeezing my kidney.”
Sadie, who worked for NHS Test and Trace, was on life support for two weeks.
She continued: “They had been pumping me full of medicines to keep my organs alive but the limbs furthest away had suffered.
“There was no blood supply to my arms and legs and the tissue had started to die.
“At first they told me they were going to take all four limbs but as the days went on the skin started to heal.”
Sepsis is a life-threatening condition whereby tissue and organs begin to die or become necrotic as the body tries to respond to another infection affecting the immune system.
Despite the news the sepsis had started to retreat, Sadie’s hands were already too damaged to save and doctors at Peterborough City Hospital took the hard decision to amputate all 10 fingers.
Her hands will now be sewn inside her stomach to keep the remaining tissue alive while surgeons make a similar decision about whether her feet or both her legs from below the knee will need to be amputated.
Sadie's friends are fundraising to support her bills and nursery fees for her youngest son while she recovers.
There are also plans to fund bionic digits for Sadie so that she can regain control of her hands.
The fundraiser has raised more than £14,000 of a £20,000 target so far and can be found here
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