CKNW : declared in Dangerous Strep infection to leave Pitt Meadows woman without hands and feet

Her husband Shawn Evans says she was put on life support for 10 days and only given a 50/50 chance to live. A Pitt Meadows mother is fighting for her life after defeating a deadly strep infection. Whatever you're saying to her keep talking – because it's working."Linfoot says there was too much damage to the tissue in her hands and feet, and they must be amputated but she's happy to be alive. First thinking it was the flu, symptoms worsened and Danielle Linfoot was taken to Abbotsford Hospital, with her heart barely beating. He says doctors told the family to prepare to say goodbye.

Pitt Meadows woman will lose hands and feet after dangerous Strep infection

A Pitt Meadows woman is fighting for her life in hospital after contracting a debilitating illness that will leave her without any hands or feet. "Actually a doctor came in today and wanted to do my left leg tomorrow, but I told them I wasn't ready," Linfoot told Global News. READ MORE: Strep throat leads to amputation of Michigan man's hands and feetLinfoot has now been in hospital for eight weeks after contracting a Streptococcus A infection that almost killed her. While she survived the infection, the tissue in both of her hands and feet did not. I didn't realize, when a nurse came running in and said, 'What are you saying to her?


"It didn't seem that unusual," Breen told WOOD-TV. "He was one of the sickest patients that we've ever taken care of," Dr. Elizabeth Steensma, an acute care surgeon at Spectrum Health Butterworth, told WOOD-TV. A Michigan father whose seemingly ordinary stomach pains turned out to be an extremely rare case of strep throat is now facing a series of procedures to amputate his hands and feet. Dad's going to have cool hands, Dad's going to have cool feet. "Life is forever going to be different," Julie, Breen's wife, told WOOD-TV, suggesting her husband would eventually receive prosthetic limbs.


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