 Darren, who is dad to Sam, eight, and Jacob, one, told ChronicleLive : "I feel grateful to still be alive. I knew what sepsis was but I didn't know the symptoms. "It was a shock that it could happen from a cut. It's shocked everybody that I have told." The dad-of-two worked as a warehouse supervisor for B&M, where his partner Aimee Dunning, 26, also works as a cashier. He said he cut his right hand while working in April this year and thought nothing more about it. Darren said: "It all started with a cut on my hand, it was a total accident. About a week later, I woke up feeling absolutely terrible. "I started vomiting, I had aches and I had diarrhoea. I felt like my heart was going to pop out of my chest. "At first I felt like I could manage it. The next day I came downstairs saying 'Aimee I think I need to go to hosp' - I couldn't get the word hospital out. At that point I thought I was having a stroke." Darren was getting "worse and worse" as he){kind=link}
Darren Spence injured himself in a machine used to crush cardboard while working in a warehouse. He cut his hand, but it became worse and he was taken to hospital and diagnosed with sepsis
A dad who suffered a small cut to his hand ended up losing his legs in a horror accident.
Darren Spence injured himself in a machine used to crush cardboard while working in a warehouse.
But a week after cutting his hand the 45-year-old began to feel really unwell.
He went to the A&E at Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital and was quickly taken to Freeman Hospital in Newcastle for emergency treatment.