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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
Tim Hanlon & Paul McAuley

Woman’s entire life changed forever after she accidentally stood on a drawing pin

A woman who stood on a drawing pin had to have her right leg amputated after contracting a life threatening infection.

And then as Kirsty Stockton was learning to cope with the disability she was diagnosed with a brain tumour.

She stood on the pin on the August bank holiday weekend in 2018, and was rushed into hospital five days later after she developed sepsis.

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