A 34-year-old woman in the United Kingdom was left with a hand that looked like a shark head following an operation performed by doctors to combat a vicious infection in her body.
As indicated in an NDTV report, Sadie Kemp posted a video on her TikTok account where she recalled her ordeal. At present, she's in Peterborough City Hospital, and she has been told that she will need to have both of her legs and her other hand amputated. The lady never thought her video would go viral. As of this writing, her post has been viewed over 75 million times since it was uploaded.
@sadiessepsisjourney #sepsisshark #sepsissurvivor #warrior #strongwomen #keepsmiling #keepswimming ♬ original sound - Sadie Kemp
A report from The Mirror quoted her saying that she was not "aware my hand was going to look" like a shark's head until it had been released "from my abdomen."
Diagnosed with Kidney Stone
The problem of Kemp started in December when she visited a doctor after she experienced what she described as a "sharp pain" in the abdomen and her back. The doctors prescribed some pain relievers and sent the woman home, although she was asked to come back if things worsened.
A former healthcare worker, Kemp, was rushed to the hospital on Christmas Day when the doctors decided to place her under an induced coma for two weeks.
As a result, Kemp was diagnosed with a kidney stone, and the next day, the infection started to spread in her body, the Peterborough Telegraph reported. Then, the doctors moved her to the emergency ward, where they carried out surgery to remove the kidney stone.
Life-Threatening 'Sepsis' Triggered
According to the doctors, the kidney stone had caused the infection that, in turn, activated sepsis, a life-threatening disease in which the body is attempting to fight the infection and, in the process, attacking its organs and tissues.
To deal with her condition, the doctors needed to amputate her fingers. Then, they sewed the hand into a pouch and into her abdomen to guarantee that the blood kept flowing through it.
Describing what happened to her, Kemp said she looked at her hand for the first time and "I moved what was left of my thumb." She added, her hand looked like a shark, a similar New York Post report said.
A Twitter user said, the woman has taken the side effect in stride, though, in which she even posted a video while singing "Baby Shark," using her hand. This post has moved the internet. And still, she can remain positive, added the Twitter user.
Stephanie King, Kemp's childhood friend, has created a page on GoFundMe to raise money to support her family. As of early this week, the page has raised $38,000.
11 Million Deaths from Sepsis
In 2020, the World Health Organization released its first report on the worldwide epidemiology and burden of sepsis, approximating that the life-threatening response to infection causes one in every five deaths globally.
Data from 2017 revealed that sepsis affected 49 million individuals and was associated with roughly 11 million deaths globally, approximately 20 percent of annual global deaths.
The recent report about Sadie Kemp is shown on CN News's YouTube video below:
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