The story of a British woman who went into surgery for a kidney stone and almost lost her life is shocking.
"I had no idea my arm would look like a shark's head until it was released from my abdomen," Sandy Kemp told the Mirror of the peculiar shape of one of her two upper limbs.
The reason her hand has this shape is because doctors sewed it into her stomach to fight an aggressive infection.
The video Kemp shot showing her hand has gone on to rack up more than 75 million views on Tik Tok.
She had a kidney stone, but almost lost her life[/P]
Her health adventure, which almost cost her life, began on Christmas Day when she was rushed to hospital after suffering severe kidney pain.
Doctors diagnosed a kidney stone and took her to the emergency department to have it removed. However, during the surgery, the 34-year-old mother contracted sepsis a life-threatening disease that occurs when the body tries to fight an infection and ends up attacking and destroying its own tissues.
In fact, sepsis is the leading cause of death in hospitals.
She went into a coma - Her hand... sewn into her abdomen
In order to save her life, doctors put Kemp in a coma for 11 days and ended up amputating all the fingers on her left hand, Peterborough Today reported. They then sewed her hand into a "pouch" in her abdomen to keep the blood circulating, which Kemp says resulted in her hand becoming like a cartoon shark's head.
They have to amputate her other arm
However, even though she managed to go absolutely viral, mainly due to her self-mockery, unfortunately she is not out of danger yet as doctors reportedly have to amputate her other arm as well as both of her legs below the knee, Peterborough Today reported.
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