I had to watch docs amputate fingers and toes

A SWANSEA woman has revealed how she had to watch doctors amputate her fingers and toes after initially feeling a pain in her side.

- ROBERT ROWLANDS

Louise Marshallsay explained it started when she experienced a recognisable “stabbing” pain in her side, which she thought indicated another episode of kidney stones.

She hurried to hospital, where her assumptions were confirmed, though she was advised to return home, as the condition would resolve itself naturally.

We reported last year how that same evening, however, she started losing consciousness intermittently and, within hours, her hands and feet had developed a black and purple discolouration.

The 48-year-old from Mumbles was left with no alternative but to have them amputated. “I was horrified when I looked down,” the former teaching assistant said.

“I was awake during the amputation, so I saw each finger being taken away from me. It was like something from a horror movie.

“I gasped when my bandages were removed. The remains of my fingers were swollen, bruised and had stitches in the tips. I cried from the pain and shock.”