{"id":86971,"date":"2024-08-21T15:34:31","date_gmt":"2024-08-21T08:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/?p=86971"},"modified":"2024-08-21T15:34:31","modified_gmt":"2024-08-21T08:34:31","slug":"after-a-flesh-eating-bug-poisoned-his-body-dad-looks-almost-unrecognizable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justmetalking.com\/after-a-flesh-eating-bug-poisoned-his-body-dad-looks-almost-unrecognizable\/","title":{"rendered":"After a flesh-eating bug poisoned his body, Dad looks almost unrecognizable"},"content":{"rendered":"

Alexis Lewis from Stockbridge, in Hampshire around 2013 already tied the knot with his sweetheart, Lucy Townsend, and raised their two-year-old son, Sam as well as running the Greyhound pub and the King\u2019s Arms in nearby Lockerley.\n

He was living the best time of his life, but not until tragedy came knocking on their doors. He caught a cold one day and he never thought it was something serious, he called it the \u201cman flu.\u201d\n

Alex Lewis told Metro, \u201cBecause we owned and lived in a pub and came into contact with lots of different people, I assumed it was a seasonal cold and thought it started as man flu.\u201d\n

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He felt a day\u2019s rest is all he needed to remedy the situation but it went on until he became feverish and was passing blood in his urine. His skin turned people and it was clear that it wasn\u2019t the flu as they all thought.\n

He was rushed to a hospital in Winchester, England on November 17, 2013, where he was diagnosed with streptococcal infection (type A) and it has penetrated deep into his tissues and organs.\n

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He has sepsis, shock syndrome, septicemia, and necrotizing fascitis and his body was fighting each other.\n

It was a hard moment for the family and his wife Lucy thought she was going to lose her husband to the cold hands of death.\n

She recalled while speaking with The Guardian, \u201cI called an ambulance, and within eight minutes, they were there. At the hospital, we went straight into resuscitation, and I was told to say goodbye. His kidneys were shutting down, and they were going to put him on life support.\u201d\n

He was said to have only three percent chances of survival as almost all parts of his body has turned black.\n

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