A “superhero” dad who thought he had a cold ended up having both his legs amputated when he was diagnosed with sepsis.
At first Mathew Hicks, from Turriff in Aberdeenshire, took some paracetamol when he fell unwell with a temperature in March this year.
His wife Rachael eventually called an ambulance who rushed him to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary where doctors found he had sepsis, Strep A and pneumonia in his right lung.
