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A Lexington, Kentucky mom is giving glory to God even after a kidney stone infection led doctors to amputate both of her legs above the knee, and she’s expected to lose both of her hands as well.
Lucinda “Cindy” Mullins just arrived home from the hospital over the weekend wearing a “Jesus Love You” shirt, after enduring a month-long, life-threatening, traumatic health crisis.
It all started when Mullins was diagnosed with kidney stones over a year ago. A urologist removed a kidney stone from the 41-year-old in October. The other kidney stone located in her right kidney did not require immediate surgery, but doctors placed a stent to help waste move from her kidney to her bladder.Â
After the stent was removed, a few days later Mullins began to feel sick.Â
She developed excruciating pain in her kidney, her back, had a fever, and was vomiting.
Her husband, DJ, drove her to Ephraim McDowell Fort Logan Hospital in Stanford, KY, where learned she had sepsis – the immune system’s extreme attempt to fight an infection, which can cause organ failure and death.Â
“It was a perfect storm – over a kidney stone,” Mullins told WLEX.Â
The diagnosis could
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