Woman left fighting for life after flesh-eating disease tore through limbs

A young woman who was left fighting for her life after a flesh-eating disease destroyed her limbs and stomach has spoken of her recovery journey.

Medics told Emma Doherty's mum her daughter had just a a 0.02 per cent chance of survival after Emma was placed into a an induced coma after doctors discovered she had sepsis.

She remained in a coma for 39 days - with mum Marie advised on several occasions to turn off her life support, and told that Emma would have 'no quality of life' due to the condition, reports LancsLive.

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Doctors warned that Emma could be left with just one arm and no legs after necrotizing fasciitis, commonly known as the flesh-eating disease, destroyed her limbs and her stomach. When Emma, now 37, was finally able to be discharged, at the height of the Covid pandemic, she decided to move from her home in London to Lancashire to be closer to her family but since then she has suffered setback after setback.

Emma revealed that social services placed her in a care home, where every day she would see residents who had died from Covid being taken away, before being offered accommodation at a Blackpool B&B on the Promenade. This was also unsuitable as her wheelchair, which she is now confined to, couldn't fit through the door.

Mum Marie began working 15-hour shifts at Sainsbury's in order to save up the money to pay for somewhere privately for Emma and, thanks to "an angel sent from God" who runs the Swans Rest Holiday Lodges and Cottages in Poulton, the pair are finally living in suitable accommodation, albeit forced to find an extra £400 to pay their rent.

Over the last two years Emma has made little progress as the pandemic took its