"After 32 weeks in hospital, several cardiac arrests and a quadruple amputation, sepsis survivor Manjit Sangha has finally returned home. Despite medics thinking the 56-year-old would almost certainly die, she left Ward 9 at Moseley Hall in Birmingham on Wednesday, receiving a hero's welcome from her family in Penn, on the Wolverhampton/Staffordshire border. Doctors believe her sepsis might have been caused by something as innocent as a lick from her dog on a small cut or scratch."
"By the following morning, she was unconscious. Her hands and feet were ice-cold, her lips had turned purple and she was struggling to breathe. "Your mind is all over the place," said her husband Kam Sangha. "You're thinking 'how can this happen in less than 24 hours?' "One minute on a Saturday she's playing with the dog, Sunday she's gone to work, Monday night she's in a coma.""
Manjit Sangha, 56, spent 32 weeks in hospital after developing sepsis that led to several cardiac arrests and the loss of both hands and both legs. Doctors suspect the infection may have begun from a minor cut or a dog's lick and progressed extremely rapidly. She became unconscious within 24 hours and suffered six heart stoppages in intensive care. Surgeons amputated her limbs due to the spread of infection. After prolonged treatment and rehabilitation she returned home to family and now warns others about the seriousness of sepsis, stressing that it can affect anyone.
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