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Tory MP Craig Mackinlay reveals his hands and feet have been amputated due to sepsis | Conservatives | The Guardian

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Mackinlay will return to public life on Wednesday for the first time since being diagnosed last September The Conservative MP Craig Mackinlay has revealed that he had both his hands and feet amputated last year due to sepsis. Mackinlay, who will return to public life on Wednesday for the first time since the ordeal, was taken to hospital last September and diagnosed with sepsis, a life-threatening reaction to an infection that occurs when the immune system overreacts and starts to damage the body’s own tissues and organs. The MP for South Thanet recorded a video from his hospital bed and said: “The grim reaper has let me survive, but he’s taken his payment in four of my limbs,” the Daily Telegraph reported. He told the newspaper he went into septic shock, which resulted in kidney and liver failure, blood clots forming and his limbs turning black. The 57-year-old said his toes and fingers became “desiccated” and curled up so they appeared as if they belonged to a “mummified Pharaoh”. At

Craig Mackinlay says he now wants to be known as the first ‘bionic MP’, after he was fitted with prosthetic legs and hands. Photograph: Isabella Allen/BBC News View image in fullscreen Craig Mackinlay says he now wants to be known as the first ‘bionic MP’, after he was fitted with prosthetic legs and hands. Photograph: Isabella Allen/BBC News Conservatives This article is more than 2 years old Tory MP Craig Mackinlay reveals his hands and feet have been amputated due to sepsis This article is more than 2 years old Mackinlay will return to public life on Wednesday for the first time since being

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