Father-of-one loses three limbs and half his face to flesh eating bacteria

Father-of-one loses three limbs and half his face to flesh eating bacteria which started as a common cold just FOUR months ago

  • Alex Lewis, 34, was forced to have both legs and his left arm amputated
  • The father-of-one spent a week in a coma after his major organs shut down
  • Doctors told his partner he had a three per cent chance of survival
  • He said his three-year-old son's reaction was the most excruciating pain
  • He now hopes to be able to walk again on prosthetic 'blade runner' legs

By EMMA GLANFIELD

PUBLISHED: 10:50 GMT, 15 March 2014 | UPDATED: 23:13 GMT, 15 March 2014

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 Lewis's 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 wouldn't 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 don't, chances are you will probably die.

‘We have all got a resilience within us but it just doesn't get tested. As a family we have been tested in the last four months to the max.

‘But you have to make the best of the situation, realise what you have got, not what you haven't got.’

Miss Townsend, aged in her early 40s, who owns Michelin Pub of the Year The Greyhound on the Test, in their village, feared the worst after the doctor’s diagnosis.

She said: ‘All his internal organs broke down so he was straight on dialysis.

‘His kidneys were the first to stop. Then his lungs, his kidneys, his heart followed.

‘Everything was shutting down so when we got to intensive care they said “go and say goodbye”, basically.

‘They took me to a room and told me there was a three per cent chance of his survival.

FULL STORY: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2581574/Father-one-loses-th...

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Comment by Ragnarok on March 18, 2014 at 5:51am

I got severe streptococcus once...I even know where i got it was at a Jedi Mind Tricks concert i used some 'soap-rod' (looked like a big soap sex toy) and with 100's using it (I should have gueesed)

So touched a zit or a small cut in my face and there presto the day after i looked i had some severe allergy attack and as time went i turned to be more and more like something outta a horror flick.

I had to go on a very high dose and expensive penicillin treatment for 14 days. 

Comment by Not mainstreamer on March 18, 2014 at 5:26am

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.

I read this as he was infected at hospital - like 100,000s others. Obviously flooding the body with antibiotics did not work because this bacteria is antibiotics resistant (hospital bacteria)

Comment by mystery on March 17, 2014 at 9:25pm

I would love to meet this person. No wonder Lucy stayed with him, did you read his attitude about losing almost all of his limbs and half his face!! Holy crap, he is a inspiration to all who have suffered. May the rest of his march through life be with ease!  He will march to, you could bet on it and win to.

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