GRAPHIC IMAGE WARNING: Stephen Rae is now fundraising for a prosthetic limb
A father who had to have his arm amputated after developing deadly sepsis from a small graze has said he can’t even put on a pair of socks by himself.
The dad-of-five said he thought he was suffering from a bad flu when his right elbow began to swell up again, passing out in the A&E waiting room before waking up in the ICU on life support. “I called Kelly to tell her and I could barely speak because I had a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. She was the same. But it wasn’t really a difficult decision to make because the alternative doesn’t bare thinking about. I’m right-handed so it’s been a massive adjustment. It’s like my whole world has come crashing down. There’s so many hurdles that I’ve got to face.
“But then in October, it came back on my forearm. I was taken to hospital again for another seven days of IV antibiotics before being discharged. A few days before Christmas, there must have been a cyst inside my elbow and it burst. I was getting hot and cold sweats so I thought it was the flu.
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