Paisley Daily Express

Cor’s journey led her to set up Finding Your Feet

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Cor ran her own graphics company, Graffix Detail Ltd, before she fell ill in 2013, aged 43.

She was given a five per cent chance of survival in a battle with sepsis during 2013.

Doctors were forced to amputate both her hands and her feet to save her life.

Within four months of losing her limbs, she walked a mile through Glasgow city centre on prosthetic legs, to raise awareness of the charity she had set up to help other amputees, named Finding Your Feet.

She has since become the first female quadruple amputee to reach the summit of Mount Kilimanjar­o, climbed Ben Nevis, abseiled, cycled around the Isle of Arran, taken up skiing and done ballroom dancing lessons.

The charity has so far raised more than £700,000 through fundraisin­g and donations.

In 2019, she became one of the first people in the UK to receive a double hand-transplant.

She underwent a gruelling 12-hour operation to attach donor hands at Leeds General Infirmary.

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