Sherri Moody thought she was just battling a run-of-the-mill cold, but things took a serious turn when she began grappling with fevers. Before she knew it, what started as a case of the sniffles had escalated into full-blown pneumonia. And to make matters worse, her body's reaction to the bacterial infection resulted in the horrifying outcome of her limbs essentially becoming "mummified."
From The Daily Star:
A teacher was forced to have a quadruple-amputation after her “mummified” limbs turned black after suffering what she thought was a "cold".
Sherri Moody, 51, who taught students in Deer Park, near Houston, began feeling cold-like symptoms while on a school trip in April 2023. Paying little attention, Sherri returned home but within days was struggling with an intense fever.
After waking up one night struggling to breathe, the teacher went to hospital, where doctors told her she had pneumonia. “I’ve never gone to the ER before in my life,” Sherri told TODAY.com. “I was very healthy, very in shape. I ate right, exercised.”
Sherri’s body had responded to the bacteria from the infection and gone into septic shock, causing her blood pressure to drop severely low. The arthritis medication the teacher had been taking had weakened her body’s immune system, which complicated the matter.
“I had to Google what sepsis was. I had no idea. We’re pretty healthy people,” her husband David told TODAY. “I recognised real quick that we were in a severe situation. I was scared to pieces.”
Her body had gone into septic shock, a life-threatening response to infection which severely drops the body’s blood pressure. Sherri, a mother of one, was placed into a coma by healthcare professionals, who returned circulation to her vital organs at the expense of circulation to her arms and legs.
