Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Scots dad has arm amputated after grazing knuckles while tinkering with car
dailyrecord.co.ukA Scots dad was forced to have his arm amputated after he grazed his knuckles while tinkering with his car and developed deadly sepsis.Stephen Rae, from Cumbernauld, was working on his motor when he injured his right hand in May 2017 but dismissed it as a minor cut which soon scabbed over.The following month, the 40-year-old woke to discover his right forearm was extremely swollen before being admitted to hospital on an IV drip to treat the blood poisoning.
The die-hard Celtic fan was released from Hairmyres Hospital after 10 days but ended up being readmitted just weeks later after the infection returned in his limb.In December that year, the dad-of-five thought he was suffering from a bad flu when his right elbow began to swell up.
He went to hospital but passed out in the A&E waiting room before waking up in the ICU on life support.A cyst in his elbow had burst causing an infection to attack multiple organs as the sepsis took hold.After several more hospital admissions and brushes with death, medics removed all the tissue from his forearm in January 2020 before later removing his elbow joint.But in May this year, doctors at Wishaw General discovered that cells at the bone fusion site had turned necrotic meaning his best chance of survival was to have his entire limb cut off.Recalling a heartbreaking phone call to his wife Kelly, Stephen said: “I nearly died three times.
It’s normally three strikes and you’re out so I am quite lucky.“I was faced with never seeing my kids and wife again or having my arm amputated.
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