A woman has revealed she had eight of her fingers amputated after a mystery illness turned them black and left her in hospital fighting for her life. Tina Patterson, 51, had fever-like symptoms a week after suffering from Covid-19 in March 2022, but ignored them for a while, taking paracetamol to curb the aches and pains.
But when she started to feel worse – with pain, exhaustion and cold feet leaving her in discomfort – paramedics were called. They couldn’t find a pulse in her index finger and were unable to draw blood, so Tina was referred to hospital.
Tina had various tests – at which point she started to feel huge amounts of pain in her fingers. Her organs started to shut down and she was rushed to the ICU.
