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After contracting a serious infection during a music concert, a young woman had to have all four of her limbs amputated. The point on this extremely rare case.
It was by inhaling simple droplets of water during the concert that the young woman contracted a terrible infection, Legionnaire’s disease. A condition that led her to have both legs and forearms amputated.
A “fog machine” in question
The young woman who suffered the amputation, a 22-year-old Texan by the name of Evelyn Davis of Tyler, fell ill after a music concert.
According to the doctors who treated her, she contracted Legionnaire’s disease by inhaling droplets of water contaminated with Legionella bacteria – released by a “fog machine” (a large floor fan intended to stir up fog on stage).
If, during the concert, nothing suggested such an infection, the young woman began to feel ill (fever, fatigue, etc.) a few days after the event. His condition then deteriorated rapidly.
At the hospital, the doctors diagnosed him with sepsis and pneumonia.
But very quickly, they realize that she has Legionnaires’ disease, a severe type of pneumonia that usually appears 2 to 10 days after exposure to Legionella bacteria.
Result: the young Texan is placed in a coma for nearly two weeks to stop the infection. But she does not come out unscathed – the doctors decide to amputate both legs and both forearms to save her.
The young woman is now safe and sound
Faced with this terrible incident, Evelyn Davis of Tyler tries to put things into perspective.
“The doctors told my parents and my husband that I was not going to recover and that if I ever woke up I would have major organ damage, but I did and all my organs are fine“, she confided.
Since this event, the young woman has been moving around with prostheses and trying to regain her autonomy.