'I was given a choice - keep my legs or keep my life' - the sepsis patient who lived

'I was given a choice - keep my legs or keep my life' - the sepsis patient who lived37 minutes agoShareSaveAdd as preferred on GoogleLouise CullenAgriculture and environment correspondent, BBC News NIBBCMarshall lost fingers and part of his legs but is keen to spread awarenessFarmer Marshall Wylie thought nothing of it when he cut his arm, sorting wood in August 2023. And he thought even less of it when he felt ill over the next 48 hours. But the following week, he said he clinically died due to sepsis. He can remember a bright light and his mother telling him he was "going to be okay" and well as seeing his old dogs.Warning: This article contains some graphic images of hands and feet with sepsis.The doctor branded the County Tyrone man a "complete and utter miracle". Marshall told BBC NI he had "never, ever heard of sepsis", but it left him with a choice: keeping his legs, or his life.Now, he is supporting an awareness campaign aimed at his fellow farmers, being launched at the Balmoral Show by the NI Agri-Rural Health Forum and the Farm Safety Partnership.Cut was 'last thing I thought about'What seemed like a minor injury sustained sorting wood led Marshall Wylie to the brink of life and deathLike many farmers, Marshall had other jobs that helped pay the bills.And in August 2023, at one of them, he cut his arm while moving dumped wood.He thoroughly washed the "wee scratch", put plenty of iodine on it and covered it with a dressing."And I never thought anything more of it."The next day, as part of his agricultural contracting work, he gathered 500 bales of silage for two neighbours.Warning: This article contains extremely graphic images of the effects of sepsis which some readers may find distressing.'My mother and my old dogs were there' By that evening, he began to feel that something was "brewing"."And being a typical farmer, you know, it's a flu, heck, well, noth...