The Great Smoky Mountain Journal
Staff, Wire Reports
Posted: Sunday, January 21, 2018 07:21 PM
Florida Woman Loses Baby, Then Arms/Legs Due To Virus; Go Fund Me Account Set Up For Donations
A GoFundMe account reached nearly
$18,000 early Saturday for a Florida woman who lost her baby – and then
her arms and legs because of sepsis that started during her pregnancy.
Kayleigh Ferguson-Walker, 31, recently returned to services at her
Broward County, Fla., church for the first time since her terrible
ordeal, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
“Today I’m just amazed to be here, to be able to talk, to see, to praise
God,” she told the congregation, the newspaper reported.
"Today I’m just amazed to be here, to be able to talk, to see, to praise
God."
- Kayleigh Ferguson-Walker, 31, a quadruple amputee
Ferguson-Walker’s story has helped raise
awareness about sepsis – when the body’s blood-clotting function
overreacts to infection -- and also the plight of America’s amputees, a
group that numbers nearly 2 million people, according to the Amputee
Coalition of America.
Today Ferguson-Walker is still waiting to fully heal before she can be
fitted for prosthetic arms and legs. The limbs were amputated in a
series of operations after she lost her baby, the Sun-Sentinel reported.
Ferguson-Walker initially thought she had the flu, but it turned out
that she had a serious infection that eventually killed her unborn child
and triggered sepsis, which cut off blood flow to her extremities, the
newspaper reported.
She told the Sun-Sentinel that she and husband Ramon have no immediate
plans to sue anyone in connection with what happened.
Insurance has helped the couple and their 3-year-old child to some
degree, but the family started the GoFundMe page for help in meeting
other expenses.