20% ‘never carry cash’
Mum’s flesh-eating bug horror
ONE-IN-FIVE Brits are cashless when they go out, a study has revealed.
Researchers who asked 2,000 UK adults found many use chip-and-pin and smartphone payments.
Half think cash is “on the way out” and will “soon” be replaced by alternative ways of paying.
The study, for First Bus, found 75% now expect all retailers to accept cash payment alternatives.
And 20% admitted the only cash they carry is a £1 coin for a shopping trolley. Donna after tranplant; right, before Mum Donna Corden nearly two years on A WOMAN who lost half her face to a flesh-eating bug had it rebuilt from part of her thigh.
Donna Corden, 47, contracted necrotising fasciitis 24 hours after cutting her brow bone in a fall.
Surgeons spent three hours removing the bacteria then transplanted the thigh flesh. The mum of four said: “Doctors say it’s a miracle I’m still here after what I went through.”
Her daughter Jayde Stammers, 26, had called 999 when she became ill last January.
Donna’s skin turned black, her kidneys failed and she stopped breathing. The bug ate more than an inch of facial tissue per hour.
After life-saving surgery Donna, of Leeds, spent four days in a coma before the 11-hour procedure to remove and transplant thigh flesh.
Recalling seeing her face afterwards, she said: “I looked like Frankenstein’s monster, with this great big distorted head. I had a big patch over my eye and this rugby ball of flesh attached to my face.”
But surgeons have excavated her face from the transplant, known as debulking. Donna said: “My face has gone down by half.”
Finally able to joke about it, she said: “I’ll probably look 20 years younger by the end.” She is raising funds for more private treatment to finish the process. To give, go to justgiving.com/crowdfunding/ lindsey-mcenroe.