Woman went to hospital with a common infection - but lost all of her limbs

A woman is to undergo rare double hand transplant surgery having lost all her limbs to sepsis after suffering a common urinary tract infection . Kim Smith, 61, spent nine weeks in a coma and had her hands and legs amputated after she contracted the UTI on holiday in Spain with her husband in 2017.

When she woke up, surgeons told Kim her hands and legs would have to be amputated as they had gone black and completely died. She was then taken to Bedford Hospital for the major surgery and spent more than three months recovering, before attending Queen Mary’s Hospital, in Roehampton, for rehabilitation. Kim, from Walnut Tree, Milton Keynes, then had to learn how to sit up and move again.

She is currently on the waiting list for a double hand transplant at Leeds General Infirmary, which has successfully performed 14 life-changing transplants since 2016. Kim, who used to work as a hairdresser and cannot work since the amputation, says she misses her hands most of all as she cannot do things for herself.

She is currently awaiting chicken pox vaccinations, which is the last step in her preparation before undergoing the surgery. Kim's experience with doctors was positive overall, however, she said several nurses were unpleasant towards her. She added: “The doctors did an X-ray on me just two days before I was admitted, but as nothing was broken, they sent me away. The following day I was prescribed antibiotics, but the pharmacy had no stock so we were told to come back the next day - that night I was rushed to the hospital.

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