'Flesh-eating bug meant I was in a wheelchair for nine years and couldn't see my baby'

'Flesh-eating bug meant I was in a wheelchair for nine years and couldn't see my baby'Kelly Simmons fell ill after her emergency c-section wound became infectedCommentsNewsHoward Lloyd Regional content editor10:19, 15 Apr 2026View 4 ImagesKelly Simmons, 44, was diagnosed with necrotising fasciitis(Image: SWNS)A mother was separated from her newborn for three months after a flesh-eating infection attacked her caesarean section scar - ultimately confining her to a wheelchair for nine years. Kelly Simmons, 44, was urgently readmitted to hospital soon after delivering her youngest child as discharge was seeping from the wound on her abdomen.‌Medical staff diagnosed the mum, from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, with necrotising fasciitis - an uncommon and potentially fatal infection that triggers swift skin tissue destruction. The infection caused the abdominal wound to split open entirely, with surgeons unable to restitch it, as the flesh-eating bacteria would have consumed straight through the sutures.‌She received steroid treatment to prevent the infection from advancing, but remaining immobile for such an extended period due to the illness resulted in muscle deterioration, which left Kelly wheelchair-bound for nine years. The former carer who can no longer work because of her condition, told Talk to the Press: "Two weeks after my emergency c-section my temperature spiked, and my wound started oozing and wouldn't stop.‌"I was rushed in to hospital. Doctors gave me antibiotics, but they didn't work. My stomach started to open up, from one side to the other. After doing tests, they discovered I had necrotising fasciitis. I was so scared, because you can lose your limbs from it.View 4 ImagesKelly after her operation(Image: SWNS)"They discovered it came from the tools they'd used during surgery, they weren't sterile. I spent three months in hospital, and I wasn't able to see my baby for the whole time, because they thought I...