Thanks to advances in medicine, many patients can emerge alive from health problems that would previously have been lethal, although sometimes the price to pay is high. This is the case of Carla, a 25-year-old girl from Valencia, who had to lose her hands and legs due to a bacteria that entered her body. That was the doctors’ only solution to save her life, as she herself explained to And Now Sonsoles.
It all started when this young woman went to the hospital so that the doctors could carry out a simple intervention: they had to remove a lump from her groin. Shortly after being discharged, she began experiencing vomiting and diarrhea, something that landed her back in the hospital. The doctors did several tests on her, and did not detect anything about her, so they discharged her from the hospital again.
Complicated health problems
After admission, he suffered several cardiorespiratory arrests
Time passed and Carla continued to feel unwell, so she returned to the hospital. This time she did receive a diagnosis: she had a bacteria that was circulating uncontrollably throughout her body. As the young woman explained to And Now Sonsolesthe doctors decided to take her to the ICU to have her more controlled and induce her into a coma, as the situation was beginning to worsen.
The young Valencian woman suffered several cardiorespiratory arrests, something that complicated things even more. Twelve days later, upon waking up again, she realized that she could not feel her hands or her feet. “The doctors explained to me little by little what had happened to me,” she revealed to the aforementioned program. As she herself revealed, the bacteria was very aggressive and ran very quickly through her blood, which led to multiple organ failure. “The doctor even told my parents to come and say goodbye to me. Because I didn’t get out of there,” reveals the young woman.
hard moment
Carla wants to make her situation visible because “it is a problem that happens more and more every day”
Life changed completely for her. “I came home on Monday without my hands or my feet,” she lamented. Despite how hard it has been for her, Carla is full of hope and wants to be happy again and do what she liked most: riding horses. “I want this to be seen because it is a problem that happens more every day. Before, people died and now 5% of the population survive,” she expressed before the cameras.
