Texas mother-of-two, 29, has her hands and feet amputated after going into septic shock days after having a C-section
- Krysten Pacheco gave birth to her baby daughter in Texas in October
- Two days later, she was discharged from the hospital but then went into shock
- She spent three months in the hospital then a month in rehab
A Texas mother-of-two has become a double amputee after going into septic shock days after having her second child via a C-section.
Krysten Pacheco, 29, lost both her hands and feet as a result of an infection from the C-section in October.
She had just welcomed her daughter, Amelia, and had been discharged from the hospital where she delivered in Pleasanton, Texas, when she started to feel ‘feverish’.
Within days, she was airlifted to a hospital in San Antonio, where doctors told her she’d gone into septic shock.
Krysten Pacheco, 29, lost both her hands and feet as a result of an infection from the C-section in October. She is shown holding her daughter Amelia, months after giving birth to her, while recovering in the hospital
Krysten with Amelia and her two-year-old son Owen. She was discharged from the hospital before she began feeling unwell
She spent two weeks in intensive care breathing through a tube, then was told before Thanksgiving that the poor blood flow to her hands and feet had caused so much damage that all needed to be amputated.
Her legs were amputated at her knees and her arms from her elbows.
‘My hands and feet were black. They looked like a person who had gotten frostbite,” she said, adding that her medical team “tried to do everything they could” to avoid having to amputate,’ Krysten told ABC 7.
After undergoing the double amputation, she also had to have a dozen skin grafts to repair the damaged skin on her limbs.
By the time Krysten came to, two weeks after first being taken to the hospital, her hands and feet had turned black from lack of blood flow
She spent the next two months in the hospital before finally being discharged to go to a rehab facility.
Krysten was finally allowed to go home on February 11, nearly four months since she’d given birth.
Now, she is caring for both her daughter and her two-year-old son. After more rehabilitation, she will be able to receive prosthetics.
In the meantime, she said she is excited to catch up on lost time with her baby daughter.
‘That’s one of the things that does break my heart a little bit still and that I’m working through is that mommy guilt of not being able to be with my baby every day for her first three months of her life.
‘But you know, I’m home now and we’re making those adaptations as we go and we’re adjusting and being a little family again.’
Pacheco with her husband, Jacob, and their toddler son, before her second pregnancy
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