2024-09-28 from cbc.ca

Melissa Murray regularly ran 10 kilometres a day — until a serious bacterial infection caused her to nearly lose a leg. 

Last summer, the Toronto woman who'd worked 60-hour weeks as an account manager suddenly needed round-the-clock care to recover from sepsis. The life-threatening condition results from the immune system's overreaction to fighting an infection.

Septic shock deprived Murray's heart and kidneys of vital blood and oxygen, and her blood pressure plunged dangerously low. To save her life, surgeons urgently had to cut out half a calf muscle and tendons plus the inner side of her right upper thigh.

"I kept saying it feels like there's like a campfire in my leg," Murray, 46, recalled of the "excruciating" ordeal in July 2023.

"The pain was so bad I wanted to get out of my body." 

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