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Hollie Bone & Peter Diamond

Mum who collapsed with backache on Christmas Day wakes up to be told she needs four limbs amputated

A mum who was convinced all she had was backache from building toys on Christmas Day woke up in 2022 to be told she needed all four limbs amputated.

Sadie Kemp was enjoying her Christmas dinner and laugh and joking with her family just hours before she collapsed in agonising pain.

When the 34-year-old came round, it was a new year and medics informed Sadie she had gone into septic shock from a kidney stone, causing the skin on her arms and legs to become necrotic.

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