UK lawmaker who lost four limbs to sepsis returns to Parliament

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British lawmaker Craig Mackinlay has received a standing ovation in Parliament as he returned to the House of Commons after undergoing a quadruple amputation following a sepsis infection.

Mackinlay, who is a member of parliament for the governing Conservative party, representing South Thanet in southeast England, fell ill on September 28, 2023. He told the BBC that he started to feel ill and turned “a very strange blue” within about 30 minutes. “My whole body, top to bottom, ears, everything, blue,” he said in an interview released Wednesday, describing the symptoms of septic shock. Sepsis is the body’s extreme response to an infection.

When he woke up, he found that his hands and feet had turned black. “I could see these things were probably lost,” he said. On November 30, Mackinlay recorded a video from his hospital bed in which he showed the damage to his limbs. “it’s caused the complete death of my hands and also my feet,” he said, describing them as “gnarled, dry, dessicated” and revealing that he was due to undergo a quadruple amputation the next day.

 

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