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22.09.2022 - 07:07 / dailyrecord.co.uk
A Scots dad tragically died from a rare flesh-eating disease after cutting his leg on a box while he moved house.
David Hemmings sadly died in hospital just days after moving to a house with a garden having spent years struggling with the stairs at his top floor flat. The 54-year-old, from Motherwell, was looking forward to the move with wife of 21 years Margaret, 52, but was rushed to hospital just three days after settling in.
David, who struggled with leg issues, was in extreme pain when he was admitted to Wishaw General Hospital on Friday, September 16, as doctors discovered a cut on his leg had become infected. Margaret and sons James, 20, and Lee, 16, were informed the next day that David's condition had deteriorated and he would not survive.
Speaking to the , Margaret said: "David had been having problems with his legs for years and had fluid in them. We had recently moved house on the Tuesday to a front and back door property because he struggled with the stairs.
"He knocked his legs a few times and cut one while carrying the boxes from the house to the car.
"On the Friday after we handed our old keys back, David was complaining his leg was really sore - sorer than they had ever been. He took some painkillers and went to sleep but when he woke back up around 6pm he was still in pain and couldn't put weight on his leg.
"I called a friend to take him to hospital, my son came back around 11pm and said the hospital would phone us the next morning. They phoned after 8am and said he had an infection in his leg but was on a strong antibiotic drip, a fluid drip and something to improve his blood pressure as it was really low.
"Around 11.30am the doctor phoned and asked us to come up as they wanted to speak to us. They
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