Finger ‘paper cut’ triggers sepsis

A GRANDMOTHER is to have all of her four limbs amputated after contracting sepsis from a “paper cut”.

The family of Marguerite Henderson, 54, from Crosshill near Lochgelly, Fife, was told to prepare for her death while she lay in an induced coma for seven days.

Despite pulling through, doctors will have to amputate her limbs as a result of the deadly infection, which claims around 40,000 lives a year in the UK.

Daughter Kim Donnachie said that her mother had noticed a cut the size of a paper cut on an index finger.

Within two days Ms Henderson became severely unwell and lost the ability to walk.