A nurse has revealed how she lost both of her legs and an arm after a chesty cough turned into sepsis.

Jayne Carpenter, 51, began coughing up phlegm in April 2016 and within a few days she was short of breath and struggling to walk.

But despite getting increasingly ill she didn't go to the doctors because she 'didn't want to make a fuss'.

When she finally visited her GP at 9am on the morning of May 1 she was advised to go to A&E but they had no idea she had the early stages of deadly sepsis.By 11am, Mrs Carpenter, from Merthyr Tydfil, South Wales, was diagnosed with pneumonia and severe sepsis and rushed to intensive care.

Her body had overreacted to the flu and started stacking its own organs and tissues.

By midnight, she slipped into a coma when her organs started to fail due to septic shock.

Her blood pressure had dropped to a dangerously low level because of the sepsis - a violent immune response to an infection.

She'd developed small blood clots in her blood vessels, which prevented blood flowing to her fingers, hands, arms and legs.


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Thank God no be for Naija , you wouldn't sit before the Camera and Smile

We call code sepsis in my hospital. Take it as seriously as a code blue, code stemi or a code stroke.
People joke with sepsis. One of the leading causes of inpatient death.

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