'Warrior' mum collapses with backache on Christmas and wakes up needing limbs amputated

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mum-of-two was left fighting for her life after she collapsed with a sudden backache on Christmas Day and woke up needing four limbs amputated in the new year.

Sadie Kemp, 34, was put on life support for two weeks after her festivities were put to a halt when she became ill hours after building her son's play kitchen.The mum, from Peterborough, said her pain had become increasingly worse before she collapsed in agonising pain.She came round in 2022 and was told by medics that she had gone into septic shock from a kidney stone, which caused the skin on her arms and legs to become necrotic.The 34-year-old has since been dubbed a medical miracle after doctors said she shouldn’t be alive due to the alarming amount of poison she had in her blood, reports The Mirror.Speaking about the ordeal, the mum said: “I was eating my Christmas dinner at 2.30pm with my family and having a laugh and by 5pm I was fighting for my life.“I thought my back was hurting from bending over and putting all the screws in but then my back pain got worse.“I said I was going to go for a bath but half an hour later I was screaming in pain on the floor saying I felt like someone was squeezing my kidney.”Sadie was rushed to A&E where they gave her pain relief and advised her to come back if the pain got any worse, but by the early hours of Boxing Day she was back and collapsed in front of doctors.She continued: “I woke up from a two-week stint on life support.“At first they told me they were going to take all four limbs but as the days went on the skin started to heal.”Sepsis is a life-threatening condition whereby tissue and organs begin to die or become necrotic as the body tries to respond to another infection affecting the immune system.Despite the.