A Scots man has been arrested and charged in connection with large scale fraud offences spanning across four years.
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A Scots dad was forced to have his arm amputated after he grazed his knuckles while tinkering with his car and developed deadly sepsis.
Stephen Rae, from Cumbernauld, was working on his motor when he injured his right hand in May 2017 but dismissed it as a minor cut which soon scabbed over.
The following month, the 40-year-old woke to discover his right forearm was extremely swollen before being admitted to hospital on an IV drip to treat the blood poisoning.
The die-hard Celtic fan was released from Hairmyres Hospital after 10 days but ended up being readmitted just weeks later after the infection returned in his limb.
In December that year, the dad-of-five thought he was suffering from a bad flu when his right elbow began to swell up.
He went to hospital but passed out in the A&E waiting room before waking up in the ICU on life support.
A cyst in his elbow had burst causing an infection to attack multiple organs as the sepsis took hold.
After several more hospital admissions and brushes with death, medics removed all the tissue from his forearm in January 2020 before later removing his elbow joint.
But in May this year, doctors at Wishaw General discovered that cells at the bone fusion site had turned necrotic meaning his best chance of survival was to have his entire limb cut off.
Recalling a heartbreaking phone call to his wife Kelly, Stephen said: “I nearly died three times. It’s normally three strikes and you’re out so I am quite lucky.
“I was faced with never seeing my kids and wife again or having my arm amputated. There’s just no comparison so I told the doctors to take it off.
“I called Kelly to tell her and I could barely speak because I had a lump in my throat and tears in my eyes. She was the same. But it wasn’t
A Scots man has been arrested and charged in connection with large scale fraud offences spanning across four years.
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