{"id":67739,"date":"2023-10-23T15:37:05","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:37:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/?p=67739"},"modified":"2023-10-23T15:37:05","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T15:37:05","slug":"mum-loses-leg-and-will-lose-fingers-after-thinking-she-had-stomach-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordcelnews.com\/lifestyle\/mum-loses-leg-and-will-lose-fingers-after-thinking-she-had-stomach-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum loses leg and will lose fingers after thinking she had stomach bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Mother who thought she had a stomach bug loses her leg and faces her fingers falling off after doctors discovered she had sepsis<\/h1>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Lisa Jones, 44, from Wrexham, lost her leg after going into septic shock\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>READ MORE: I&#8217;m addicted to eating baby powder &#8211; I&#8217;ve spent $4,000 on it this year and get through a bottle a day<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A mother who thought she had a stomach bug lost her leg and is facing losing her fingers after it turned out she had a life-threatening condition.<\/p>\n<p>Lisa Jones, 44, from Wrexham, entered a coma from which she only had five per cent chance of emerging when she went into septic shock.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Now, four months later, Lisa\u00a0is recovering at home following amputation of her right leg &#8211; and she may still lose her left.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She credited her survival to her &#8216;hero&#8217; 10-year-old daughter Carly-Ann, saying: &#8216;I used to be the mum and throughout all this she&#8217;s turned into my mum. She is just amazing and she&#8217;s got me through it all.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Lisa, whose dad James is fundraising for specialist equipment to support her, was leading a busy lifestyle before her illness, running a cleaning business and caring for her daughter.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/15\/76894491-12660907-image-a-52_1698070175806.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lisa Jones pictured with her 10-year-old daughter Carly-Ann, who she has described as her hero<\/p>\n<p>One night in June she woke at 3.10am and vomited. &#8216;I thought it was a tummy bug but as the days went by I was feeling more and more ill,&#8217; she said.\u00a0&#8216;I started to dehydrate because if I put anything to my mouth I would heave and be sick.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;After three or four days my sister Tanya said: &#8216;I&#8217;ve had enough &#8211; we&#8217;re ringing an ambulance.&#8217; When the ambulance came the paramedics put me in a chair and I saw they had a screen with the words &#8216;suspected sepsis&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the way to hospital they put blue lights on and the last thing I remember is the paramedic saying: &#8216;Don&#8217;t worry Lisa, we&#8217;re going to get you straight in.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lisa&#8217;s family later told her she started screaming about excruciating pain in her feet but she does not remember this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With the sepsis shutting down her organs Lisa entered a coma shortly after arriving at Wrexham Maelor Hospital where medics put her on life support and kidney dialysis machines. After she had been in a coma for one day doctors told her family she had a five per cent chance of pulling through.<\/p>\n<p>But after three days in the coma Lisa regained consciousness and found herself &#8216;the talk of the hospital&#8217;. She said: &#8216;I had so many doctors and nurses and consultants coming to me and calling me a miracle, saying I wasn&#8217;t supposed to be here.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The sepsis had affected Lisa&#8217;s blood supply to her hands and feet causing them to turn black. Doctors believe the original infection was in her kidneys. Lisa remembers the confusion of looking down at the dead tissue in her hands.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After five weeks in hospital she returned home with her hands and feet still black. She was unable to walk but doctors gave her physiotherapy exercises such as bending her legs in the hope of saving them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/15\/76894501-12660907-image-a-53_1698070394817.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Lisa is now sharing her story as she wants to raise awareness of sepsis, following her own life-threatening experience<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;They told me I needed to get blood rushing to my feet to save them,&#8217; said Lisa. &#8216;When I first tried to stand up I thought I&#8217;d never walk again because I couldn&#8217;t stand at all.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I worked so hard at home, pushing myself and trying to move my legs in bed. I remember on my dad&#8217;s birthday, July 23, I did a little video of myself doing two steps forward and two steps back.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>The video raised hopes among Lisa&#8217;s family that her legs could be saved but the black tissue in her right foot was growing and it had started to smell.. It reached a point where Lisa &#8216;couldn&#8217;t take it anymore&#8217;.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She had been due a hospital visit at the start of September but in mid-August she called and said: &#8216;I really need you to have a look at this foot.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Lisa was told to go immediately to Glan Clwyd Hospital where specialists quickly began to discuss amputation of her right leg. She recalls begging the surgeon: &#8216;Please let me keep as much as possible.&#8217;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Half of Lisa&#8217;s right foot was removed. When she woke she was in tears of happiness to see she still had most of her leg but over the next couple of days the tissue in her foot continued to deteriorate, causing &#8216;unreal&#8217; pain.<\/p>\n<p>Three days after the surgery a consultant warned Lisa that if she got an infection which reached the bone her right leg might have to be amputated at the thigh. The alternative was amputation just below the knee, which would allow the possibility of using a prosthetic leg. Lisa agreed to that option.<\/p>\n<p>Following the second surgery Lisa woke in agony from cramp in her stump. For three or four hours she was screaming in pain, unable to stretch or walk off the cramp. Eventually the pain dissipated when the bandage was loosened.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/15\/76894497-12660907-image-a-55_1698070593674.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>Experts have said it is inevitable that Lisa will lose her fingers (pictured) which will fall off, though they do not know when that will happen<\/p>\n<p>She was discharged at the end of August and has been having weekly sessions at the hospital to peel away dead tissue from her remaining foot. Doctors have told her there is a 50\/50 chance the left leg will have to be amputated.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of Lisa&#8217;s hands are black and experts have said her fingers will inevitably fall off though they do not know when. &#8216;My right hand has been bent like a hook since I was in a coma,&#8217; she added. &#8216;My fingers are rock hard. I had acrylic nails done three days before this all happened and they haven&#8217;t grown, I&#8217;ve still got the same perfect pink nails.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Lisa has not been able to get a prosthetic leg yet. Because of the issues with her hands she cannot propel herself in a normal wheelchair and has been told there is a 38-week NHS waiting list for an electric one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Her dad James has started a GoFundMe page in the hope of raising \u00a32,500 to help buy an electric wheelchair and make her home more disabled-friendly. &#8216;I want to lead as much of an independent life as possible,&#8217; said Lisa, whose finances have been stretched by her health battle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/i.dailymail.co.uk\/1s\/2023\/10\/23\/15\/76894499-12660907-image-a-54_1698070437969.jpg\" height=\"422\" width=\"634\"><\/p>\n<p>According to Lisa (pictured: her feet before the amputation) her health struggles have been very difficult mentally<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;It&#8217;s been very hard on my mental health but my little girl has got me through it. At night-time she&#8217;s made sure I&#8217;ve been taking my medication. She&#8217;s been making me cups of coffee. When I&#8217;ve gone out in a wheelchair, with my dad or my partner pushing me, she&#8217;s been texting me to make sure I&#8217;m okay.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Lisa added she has had &#8216;amazing&#8217; support from her sister Tanya, who has been taking care of her cleaning company Clean Queens, as well as her parents, her partner Colin, and his 14-year-old daughter Evie.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;I wouldn&#8217;t be here to tell the story without them,&#8217; she said. &#8216;I&#8217;m going to wake up one morning and my fingers will be in the bed. These things do go through my mind but somehow I&#8217;ve been managing to keep all that in one part of my brain.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Around 245,000 cases of sepsis occur in the UK each year, according to the UK Sepsis Trust, and almost any infection is capable of leading to the condition.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lisa, who decided to tell her story to raise awareness of the illness, urged people to be mindful of the sepsis symptoms, which can include vomiting, very high or low temperature, and shivering.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/femail\/article-12660907\/Mother-thought-stomach-bug-loses-leg-faces-fingers-falling-doctors-discovered-sepsis.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother who thought she had a stomach bug loses her leg and faces her fingers falling off after doctors discovered<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67738,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - 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