Mum collapsed with backache and woke up two weeks later needing all her limbs amputated

A mum who thought she was suffering from backache on Christmas Day collapsed in pain before waking up days later to the news that she needed all four of her limbs amputated.

Sadie Kemp, 34, was building toys for her youngest son after enjoying her Christmas dinner when she started to feel pain in her back.

“I was eating my Christmas dinner at 2.30pm with my family and having a laugh and by 5pm I was fighting for my life," she told the Mirror.

“I had decided to build a play kitchen I had bought for my youngest son.

“I thought my back was hurting from bending over and putting all the screws in but then my back pain got worse.

“I said I was going to go for a bath but half an hour later I was screaming in pain on the floor saying I felt like someone was squeezing my kidney.”

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Sadie, from Peterborough, went to A&E and was given pain relief before being told to come back if the pain worsened - but by the early hours of Boxing Day, she was back in hospital, where she collapsed in front of doctors.

The mum-of-two was on life support for two weeks before she eventually woke up and found out that she had gone into septic shock from a kidney stone, causing the skin on her arms and legs to become necrotic.

Doctors told Sadie she was a medical miracle for surviving the ordeal, but they were even more shocked when the tissue on her arms started to heal.

“They had been pumping me full of medicines to keep my organs alive but the limbs furthest away had suffered," Sadie said.

“There was no blood supply to my arms and legs and the tissue had started to die.

“At first they told me they were going to take all four limbs but as the days went on the