The bionic MP: Craig Mackinlay breaks his silence after losing both his hands and feet to sepsis - and admits he was 'lucky to be alive' after horror illness that left him with four prosthetic limbs

MP Craig Mackinlay has breached his soundlessness aft losing some of his hands and feet to sepsis admitting helium was 'lucky to beryllium alive' aft the horrific unwellness near him with 4 prosthetic limbs.

The Tory MP for South Thanet, 57, is acceptable to instrumentality to Parliament aft helium astir died from the life-threatening illness successful September.

He woke up from a 16-day coma successful November with wholly blackened limbs, owed to the clots and deficiency of circulation caused by his illness.

'It went wholly achromatic – they looked similar pharaohs arms, benignant of dug retired of the desert,' the MP told GB News.

In a video recorded from his infirmary furniture successful St Thomas' infirmary successful London connected November 30, 2 months aft being admitted, showing his blackened arms and feet, Mr Mackinlay said: 'The world is that I astir apt shouldn't person survived this far.'

Mr Mackinlay had to person important portions of his arms and legs removed to prevention his life. But the defiant parliamentarian has said helium is present acceptable to get backmost to enactment - and wants to beryllium known arsenic the 'bionic MP'.

And speaking to GB News today, helium said: 'The terms I'm going to wage for surviving is immoderate quiescent superior disability.

But helium seemed upbeat saying that, saying hopefully helium 'might beryllium a small taller' with his caller bionic limbs.

The Kent MP started feeling unwell connected September 27 but thought it was nary worse than the beginnings of a cold, and helium adjacent took a Covid trial which came backmost negative.

But his pharmacist woman Kati became much acrophobic for her husband's wellness passim the nighttime aft investigating his humor unit and temperature. And she could not adjacent consciousness a pulse connected his chromatic acold arms by the morning. 

Speaking to GB News, Mrs Mackinlay said: 'The ambulance archetypal didn't privation to instrumentality him to hospital. The lone atrocious marker helium had was sweetener level which was precise very debased but erstwhile helium had meal that came backmost up.

'They were reasoning whether to spot his GP oregon unreserved him to hospital.'

She said they 'luckily' chose to nonstop for an ambulance but erstwhile helium arrived 'things started to velocity up'.

Mr Mackinlay was suffering from the DIC effect - an retired out of power sepsis infection.

He had suffered aggregate organs nonaccomplishment and started to crook bluish aft being rushed to infirmary arsenic the sepsis took hold.

In December helium said helium was 'extremely fortunate to beryllium alive' aft undergoing 'extreme surgery

But contiguous helium elaborate the harrowing occurrence successful full, including waking up successful St Thomas's Hospital to find his limbs had turned black.

Mr Mackinlay's concern escalated rapidly. After feeling mildly unwell 1 nighttime successful precocious September, helium was severely sick during the night, and by greeting his woman could not consciousness a pulse.

Shocking images amusement the MP looking down astatine his affected limbs earlier they were removed.

'I could spot achromatic arms and my woman was explaining what happened,' helium told GB News.

'I deliberation I was inactive connected the joys of fentanyl and each the remainder of it by then, truthful I was successful and retired of lucidity. But I could spot these things (hands) were astir apt lost.

'It became obvious. My fingers were wholly fixed into a clenched fist. As for my toes, I could determination a mates of toes connected my near limb but determination was benignant of a small motion of beingness successful them.

'Maybe they could person saved a spot of a ft but my surgeon said 'you are amended disconnected having them off', due to the fact that you tin person prosthetics and you'll locomotion acold amended than having a partial foot.'

Doctors were adjacent considering the anticipation of issuing a do-not-resucitate bid if his bosom stopped.

But helium took his archetypal 20 steps unaided aft the country connected February 28, marking a large milestone successful his betterment aft a sombre Christmas period. Thankfully, helium said, his 4 twelvemonth aged girl Olivia dealt with the concern well.

Sepsis, besides called septicaemia oregon humor poisoning, occurs erstwhile the immune strategy overreacts to an infection.

In 2016, the Daily Mail launched the End the Sepsis Scandal run pursuing the tragic lawsuit of William Mead, who died astatine 12 months aged aft a catalogue of errors and misdiagnoses.

But contempt the trauma, Mr Mackinlay has said helium is 'ready to get backmost successful the saddle' and service his constituents - arsenic good arsenic animate the adjacent generation.

First elected successful 2015, the outspoken MP has adjacent said helium volition contention his spot astatine the adjacent election.

He added: [I privation to] get backmost to the things I truly enjoy. Get backmost speaking retired for the colonisation of South Thanet and get acceptable for that predetermination and effort and get immoderate decent manifesto points successful with the unit I privation to bear.

'I'm hoping radical mightiness springiness maine the payment of the uncertainty and say, 'that antheral has been a combatant for himself, he's damn good going to combat for me, I'm going to springiness him my support.' The bionic MP is what I privation to be. When children travel up to Parliament and spell to the assemblage oregon spell to the schoolhouse conception that Parliament does precise well, I privation children to beryllium tugging connected their mother's coats and saying, 'I privation to spot the bionic MP today'. That's what I privation to do.'

He has said the nonaccomplishment of his hands has been the astir hard happening to woody with, and that the prosthetic replacements volition 'never beryllium the same.'

He told the BBC: 'You don't realise however overmuch you bash with your hands... usage your phone, clasp the manus of your child, interaction your wife, bash the garden.'