\u201cI want to get walking,\u201d Sangha told the BBC. \u201cI want to get my prosthetics [and] to go back to work.\u201d<\/p>\n
A chance lick <\/p>\n
According to Sangha\u2019s husband, Kam Sangha, she began to feel sick soon after coming back from work on a Sunday afternoon in late July 2025. By Monday morning, she had become oxygen-deprived and unresponsive. She was rushed to the hospital and placed in the intensive care unit, where her heart stopped at least six times.<\/p>\n
It was an acute case of septic shock\u2014a life-threatening drop in blood pressure brought on by extreme, widespread inflammation throughout the body, better known as sepsis. An infection brought on the sepsis,\u00a0which Sangha may have contracted from something as simple as her dog licking a small open wound or scratch, her doctors told the BBC.<\/p>\n
Though doctors were able to stabilize her condition, Sangha experienced other complications, including pneumonia and gallstones. And even as she managed to escape death and gradually improve, the illness would later necessitate the removal of her spleen and a partial amputation of all four limbs.<\/p>\n
Finally, however, after 32 weeks hospitalized, Sangha was discharged and returned back home last week.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s difficult to explain the experience,\u201d she said. \u201cLosing your limbs and your hands in a short time period is a very big thing.\u201d<\/p>\n
Back on her feet <\/p>\n
Though most infections never lead to sepsis, it\u2019s a common and serious health issue. Globally, nearly 50 million people develop sepsis every year, according to the World Health Organization<\/a>, while 11 million deaths annually are linked to it (roughly 20% of all yearly deaths).<\/p>\n The treatment of sepsis is costly, as is often the post-recovery care of people who survive it. Sangha estimates that it will take tens of thousands of dollars to obtain the advanced prosthetics that will allow her to walk and use her limbs with a high degree of mobility and independence again. To that end, her friends and family have organized a GoFundMe campaign<\/a> to help rebuild her life, which is currently at \u00a334,005 (around $45,000 USD).<\/p>\n Despite her terrible experience, Sangha is optimistic about the future.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve sat down in my chair and my bed enough. It\u2019s time to walk now,\u201d she told the BBC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One of the most innocent things in the world\u2014a dog\u2019s lick\u2014may have had incredibly tragic consequences for 56-year-old…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":486593,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[97,8871,54369],"class_list":["post-486592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-infectious-diseases","tag-sepsis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"64604427](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/64604427_1768579432271830_r.jpeg\")
Manjit Sangha recovering in the hospital. \u00a9 GoFundMe <\/p>\n