Father-of-one loses three limbs and half his face to flesh eating bacteria: A young father-of-one who came down with a common cold in November has since lost three limbs and skin from his face after it developed into a horrific flesh-eating bug. Alex Lewis, 34, had to have both of his legs and his left arm amputated after his feet, fingertips, arms, lips, nose and part of his ears turned black. His major organs shut down and the keen golfer, who has a three-year-old boy called Sam, spent a week in a coma as the deadly bacteria wreaked havoc through his body. The nightmare started only four months ago when Mr Lewis, from Stockbridge, Hampshire, started suffering from a common cold. However, as his symptoms worsened, medics at Royal County Hospital, in Winchester, Hampshire, soon diagnosed him with blood infection Group A streptococcus - a normally harmless bacteria the body should filter out. But devastatingly, in Mr Lewiss case it developed into septicaemia and toxic shock syndrome with doctors warning he had only a three per cent chance of survival. Speaking from his hospital bed, Mr Lewis recalled how he went to bed early one night in November feeling unwell, only to wake at 2am, passing blood in his urine. His skin turned purple, his eyes dilated and he was rushed to hospital, where staff later told his partner Lucy Townsend, he wouldnt make it. But he survived and hopes one day to walk again on prosthetic blade runner legs. Mr Lewis, from Stockbridge, Hampshire, said: ‘In a strange way it is the most amazing thing I have ever lived through. ‘I think nothing but good will come from it. I think you cope because you have to. If you dont, chances are you will probably die. ‘We have all got a resilience within us but it just doesnt get tested. As a family we have been tested in the last four months to the max.
Posted on: Sun, 16 Mar 2014 06:01:22 +0000
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