‘Please come back, your babies need you’: Pacheco heard as she was fading out
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New York: A 29-year-old woman in the US lost her hands and feet to infection days after having a child through C-section.
Krystina Pacheco had a C-section October last year to welcome her second child which was rather uneventful, ABC News reported.
Two days after she was released from a hospital in Texas and retuning home, Krystina Pacheco became feverish, suffered shortness of breath and vomiting.
A nurse gave her ibuprofen assuming that the symptoms were just part of recovery from post C-section.
As her condition worsened, Pacheco was rushed to an emergency room and afterwards airlifted to a San Antonio hospital. She was diagnosed with septic shock, which is an extreme state of body’s response to infection.
As she was beginning to fade out, unable to breathe anymore she heard her husband saying ‘please come back, your babies need you, I need you. Please help me with our babies” Pacheco told ABC News.
She spent another fortnight in intensive care breathing through tube.
Doctors did not want to hold back from her the truth of poor flood flow to her hands and feet, waiting to cause so much damage and amputation was the only way out.
"My hands and feet were black. They looked like a person who had gotten frostbite," Pacheco reportedly said.
Alongside amputation, she underwent one dozen skin grafts over several week for skin damage around amputations.
After two months of hospital stay, she was released to go to a rehab facility.
Pacheco was home this month, nearly four months since she had given birth, caring for both her daughter and her two-year-old son.
She is rebuilding her strength and trying to be self-sufficient in transferring herself from her bed to a chair and the shower.