Flesh-eating disease ruins man's life a second time
- 8 years ago
STANLEY, ENGLAND — A British man who survived a rare flesh-eating infection — only for it to return a second time — said his life has been ruined by the disease.
Car salesman Lee Murphy has been infected twice with necrotizing fasciitis, which eats the body's soft tissue.
"I can't walk, wash myself, or even make a cup of tea. Do you have any idea how demeaning it is to be a 37-year-old man who has to ask for help to do everything?" Murphy told Chronicle Live.
Murphy, from County Durham in the northeast of England, was first diagnosed with the killer condition just over a year ago. The bug destroyed the flesh on his right leg, all the way from his thigh to his foot.
Murphy spent five days in a coma and doctors gave him just 12 hours to live at one point — but his life was saved by a series of skin grafts as he underwent a total of 16 operations.
Murphy began to recover, but in February this year the disease came back, this time on the back of his right leg.
The flesh-eating bug has stripped away his skin and eaten his calf muscle, leaving him on crutches.
It is extremely rare, though not unheard of, for a patient to contract necrotizing fasciitis twice, a spokesman for Public Health England told the Daily Mail in February.
Murphy told Chronicle Live he wanted to raise awareness of the condition as he waited to see if his latest skin graft operations were successful.
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Car salesman Lee Murphy has been infected twice with necrotizing fasciitis, which eats the body's soft tissue.
"I can't walk, wash myself, or even make a cup of tea. Do you have any idea how demeaning it is to be a 37-year-old man who has to ask for help to do everything?" Murphy told Chronicle Live.
Murphy, from County Durham in the northeast of England, was first diagnosed with the killer condition just over a year ago. The bug destroyed the flesh on his right leg, all the way from his thigh to his foot.
Murphy spent five days in a coma and doctors gave him just 12 hours to live at one point — but his life was saved by a series of skin grafts as he underwent a total of 16 operations.
Murphy began to recover, but in February this year the disease came back, this time on the back of his right leg.
The flesh-eating bug has stripped away his skin and eaten his calf muscle, leaving him on crutches.
It is extremely rare, though not unheard of, for a patient to contract necrotizing fasciitis twice, a spokesman for Public Health England told the Daily Mail in February.
Murphy told Chronicle Live he wanted to raise awareness of the condition as he waited to see if his latest skin graft operations were successful.
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