A UK woman feels “lucky to be alive” after she caught a flesh eating bug from her flower beds. Louise Fawcett, 58, from Chesterfield, Yorkshire, in northern England, was pottering in the garden outside her home in slip on sandals when she thinks she got a small cut on her right foot from rubble. Her foot swelled up and, after days of agony and tests, she was diagnosed with necrotising fasciitis — a flesh-eating disease that occurs when bacteria enter the body through a break in the skin.
She was told to keep her foot elevated and to come back if her symptoms continued. Fawcett said: “The next morning I noticed the ankle looked like it had a port wine birthmark. It was very purple. “I thought it was sepsis.” Her husband Mark, 59, a train driver, took Fawcett to Chesterfield Royal Hospital where she had some blood tests. While waiting for the results, a nurse spotted her and realised her symptoms looked like the rare flesh eating bug she had been studying just the week before.
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