In UK, a woman survived sepsis and had to trade her fingers to instead get “shark hand” for herself. The 34-year-old woman, identified as Sadie Kemp, recently took to TikTok and gave an account of her fight with sepsis, that she has fought with the help of her sense of humour and bravery.
According to reports, Sadie had to get her fingers amputated and the doctors ended up sewing her hand into a pouch in her stomach to make sure blood continued flowing in and around the affected area. After the doctors took her hand, it looked quite different than it did when there was no inkling of a potential surgery due to sepsis.
Following the surgery, Sadie realized how of her hand looked like the face of a shark. Turning adversity into something she could have fun with, Sadie started sharing videos of her ‘shark hand’ on TikTok and raised awareness on sepsis.
Her most recent video shared on TikTok has garnered over 60 million views and as many as 2.1 million likes so far.
The Facts of the Matter
Austrian holocaust survivor and philosopher Viktor Frankl in his book Man’s Search for Meaning wrote extensively on sense of humour. In his autobiographical book, Viktor Frankl wrote how humour can help one deal with the biggest of tragedies and sufferings.
A UK-based woman is proving the same true by using her sense of humour to accept and cope up with the aftermath of a surgery. The 34-year-old woman Sadie, was rushed to a surgery where her fingers from both her hands had to be amputated. After she got out of surgery, Sadie realized that one of her amputated hand looks like a shark’s head.
Using her “shark hand” the woman is now raising awareness on Sepsis – a potentially life-threatening medical emergency – due to which she had to undergo the surgery.
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How Sadie’s Life Turned Around
34-year-old Sadie Kemp’s life took a sharp turn when she experienced sharp pain in both of her kidneys. She was rushed to the hospital and was given painkillers by the medical personnel. A day later, she was once again taken to hospital. Only this time, she was put under an induced coma for the coming two weeks.
Doctors Find Out Sepsis To Be the Reason of Pain, What is Sepsis?
During the medical investigations, the doctors found out that the mother of 2-year-old was under pain due to an infection caused by kidney stone. The pain was reportedly caused due to sepsis. For the unversed, sepsis is a condition where a body’s system attacks the tissue and organs.
According to Medineplus, “Sepsis is your body’s overactive and extreme response to an infection. Sepsis is a life-threatening medical emergency. Without quick treatment, it can lead to tissue damage, organ failure, and even death.”
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Doctors Amputate Fingers, Woman Left with ‘Shark Hand’
To help save her life. The doctors ended up amputating all the fingers of her left hand and sewed the hand in a pouch inside her stomach to make sure blood circulation continues. This resulted in Sadie’s hand look more like a shark’s head.
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Sadie Raises Awareness on Sepsis through Funny Videos TikTok
While most people would’ve cursed their fate as a normal reaction, Sadie responded to her crisis with humour, bravery and grace. She started making TikTok videos where she hummed the classic Jaws theme. Through her videos, she started to raise awareness about sepsis and its dangers.
“I have lost a lot through sepsis, my limbs, a relationship, independence and I just don’t want it happening to as many people as it does happen to. I want to raise awareness about the dangers of sepsis,” she was quoted in a Mirror report saying.
Meanwhile netizens seem to be loving her sense of humour. Her most recent video has already been viewed over 60 million times and as many as 2.1 million likes have already been registered on TikTok.
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