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A mum who thought she had a stomach bug turned out to have a life-threatening condition which cost her a leg and will cause her fingers to fall off. Lisa Jones was in septic shock and entered a coma from which doctors said she only had a five per cent chance of emerging from.
"After three or four days my sister Tanya said: 'I've had enough – we're ringing an ambulance.' When the ambulance came the paramedics put me in a chair and I saw they had a screen with the words 'suspected sepsis'. On the way to hospital they put blue lights on and the last thing I remember is the paramedic saying: 'Don't worry Lisa, we're going to get you straight in.
The sepsis had affected Lisa'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. 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.
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: "Please let me keep as much as possible." Half of Lisa'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 "unreal" pain.
Parts of Lisa's hands are black and experts have said her fingers will inevitably fall off though they do not know when. "My right hand has been bent like a hook since I was in a coma," she added. "My fingers are rock hard. I had acrylic nails done three days before this all happened and they haven't grown, I've still got the same perfect pink nails."
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