Kentucky mother-of-two Lucinda “Cindy” Mullins is home six weeks after a “perfect storm” infection left her without a leg — insisting she is “calm” and not angry despite awaiting amputation of her arm.
The 41-year-old nurse returned home Friday, telling “Good Morning America” she was just thankful to have survived the septic shock that shut down her organs shortly after routine elective surgery to remove kidney stones.
“When they told me it was going to happen, that I was going to lose my arms and legs, I wasn’t mad,” said the mother, who is now home with her husband and two sons, ages 7 and 12.
“I had a calmness about me. I just felt the presence of God saying, ‘It’s going to be okay. You’re alive. This is what happened,’ and I wasn’t upset about it.”
Still, he admitted that the ordeal was “kind of hard for me to wrap my head around.”
Cindy Mullins, 41, needed a quadruple amputation in a “perfect storm” that started with kidney stones.
“I’m a normal person, and for these people to do that to me is fair, you know, it’s another God thing,” said the mother, whose first plan was to go to church on Sunday.
Mullins, 41, underwent elective surgery on Dec. 1 to remove a kidney stone, receiving a temporary stent to prevent a blockage, ABC News reported.
She removed the stent at home, as instructed – but soon collapsed on the bathroom floor, where she was found by her husband, who took her back to hospital.
Mullins said she is grateful for the opportunity to spend more time with her husband and son. He survived septic shock that shut down his organs. Facebook/Luci Hatfield Smith
“They checked my blood pressure and it was 50 over 31, and in my mind, I knew that wasn’t good,” said Mullins, who has worked as a nurse for nearly 20 years.
“They started IVs in both arms, and I don’t remember anything after that,” she said.
Doctors discovered he had an infected kidney stone and was in septic shock, which caused his organs to begin to shut down.
“It was the perfect storm – on the reef,” he said earlier.
If left untreated, septic shock can lead to “tissue damage, organ failure, and even death,” according to the National Institutes of Health.
Her husband found her on the bathroom floor and rushed back to the hospital. Instagram/LucindaDj Mullins Doctors discovered she had an infected kidney stone and was in septic shock. Instagram/LucindaDj Mullins
Mullins was placed on a ventilator before he was transferred to a larger hospital in Lexington, where he was sedated for days in critical condition.
“My husband and sister were there and they told them I was on the edge of a cliff and it was going to get worse before it got better,” she told “GMA.”
“After the surgery, I was on ECMO and dialysis, and still on a ventilator,” he said, referring to the device that removes carbon dioxide from the blood and returns the blood with oxygen to the body.
Mullins had his leg amputated the next day and expects his arm to be removed in the coming weeks as well.
He told “GMA” that doctors will try to keep as much of his arm as possible, possibly removing everything below the elbow, before he finally gets a prosthetic.
“The doctors told me they couldn’t put a percentage on how close I was to death, and then I did as well as I did after being on a ventilator, ECMO and dialysis… for me to do well, as fast as I did. , is another miracle,” he said on the program.
“It’s just one of those things where they explain all the bad things that can happen when you have surgery, and I’m a rare case. I’m perfectly fine,” Mullins explained.
Mullins was placed on a ventilator before he was transferred to a larger hospital in Lexington. Facebook/Luci Hatfield Smith A GoFundMe page for the Mullins family had raised nearly $105,000 by Sunday afternoon.
Dr. Nate Thomas, the rehabilitation specialist overseeing her care, said she has worked hard in physical therapy to get to the point where she can go home.
“The attitude that she has in staying positive, staying upbeat and doing everything she can is really amazing,” Thomas told “GMA.”
“I don’t think it’s something to take lightly, given the situation he’s been in and has been through a lot. I thought he was the whole thing [medical] the team is ready to take lessons from his thinking and the way he really goes through it,” he added.
On Saturday, Mullins’ sister, Luci Hatfield Smith, posted an update on Facebook describing her progress in recovery.
“In just a few days at Cardinal Hill, he went from not moving much on his own to sitting, raising his hands to scratch his nose, driving with his head, booty all over the place, and even scrolling through his messages. and sending some messages himself,” Smith wrote.
“We got to enjoy family and friends time and now he’s out. Now I just have to set my 15 alarms for my nightly meditation and bathroom trips, but there’s no place I’d rather be right now,” she added.
He expects his hand will also be removed in the coming weeks. Facebook/Luci Hatfield Smith “I feel calm about me. I just felt the presence of God saying, ‘It’s going to be okay. you are still alive This is what happened,’ and I’m not upset about it,” Mullins said. gofundme
The post was accompanied by several images and videos of Mullins participating in rehab exercises.
In one clip, he is seen working out how to get on and off his own scooter and use his phone with his elbow on the other.
A photo was also shared in the latest update to the GoFundMe page, which had raised more than $263,000 as of early Monday afternoon.
“The hardest part about this is that I miss my kids, of course,” Mullins told “GMA.” “Without my faith, I don’t think I could be where I am today,” he said, saying one of his first plans was to go to church.
“And I can’t wait for that,” he said.
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