When Jane Haley took a course of antibiotics for her strep throat in June, she quickly started feeling back to her normal self.

The 41-year-old had no idea that, just two months later on August 24, she would be rushed to hospital in an ambulance where doctors would diagnose her with Toxic Shock Syndrome – a rare form of sepsis.

Ultimately, doctors would have to amputate all four of her limbs to save her life from the tissue damage, and keep her from multi-organ failure.

Pictures reveal the severe damage to her legs and arms from the Group A Streptococcus infection which spiralled out of control, as Jane thinks back to how her journey started.

‘In June I took a full course of antibiotics for seven to 10 days and I was feeling better by then,’ Jane, an accountant, recalls.

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