Man looses 3 limbs and half of his face to flesh eating bacteria

A young father-of-one who came down with a common cold in November has now lost three limbs and skin from his face after the cold developed into a horrific flesh-eating bug.

Alex Lewis, 34, had to have both of his legs and his left arm amputated after his feet, fingertips, arms, lips, nose and part of his ears turned black. His major organs shut down and the keen golfer, who has a three-year-old boy called Sam, spent a week in a coma as the deadly bacteria wreaked havoc through his body.

Lewis said:

‘In a strange way it is the most amazing thing I have ever lived through. I think nothing but good will come from it. I think you cope because you have to. If you don't, chances are you will probably die. We have all got a resilience within us but it just doesn't get tested. As a family we have been tested in the last four months to the max. But you have to make the best of the situation, realise what you have got, not what you haven't got.