Tory MP Craig Mackinlay loses hands and feet to sepsisBBC News
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00:00 I went this very, very strange blue.
00:02 Almost like you're dressed, yes, my whole body, top to bottom, ears, everything blue.
00:07 And that is, I can't remember the full name of it, but it's called a septic shock, DIC.
00:12 It's when you're having a very severe sort of septic event.
00:16 And they knew what it was and they pretty much immediately put me into an induced coma.
00:22 What's the first thing you remember when you came round?
00:24 I remember coming to and there was discussions happening about these arms and legs.
00:30 Because by then they had turned black.
00:33 They were like a plastic, you could almost knock them.
00:36 And it was like, it was like a, like your mobile phone plastic.
00:40 It looked like Pharaoh's hand that had just been dug up or Pete Bogman.
00:44 They were black, desiccating, clenched and just looked dead.
00:50 I mean, they looked dead. I wasn't really surprised at the potential outcome.
00:55 These things are dead. Your legs and arms are dead.