GB News Craig Mackinlay interview

South Thanet MP Craig Mackinlay speaks about his sepsis ordeal

Transcript

00:00 Do you know how long you're in a coma for? Were you out for a bit?

00:03 I think they tried to take... I don't really know the full details, in and out of lucidity.

00:09 But I could see these things were probably lost. It became obvious.

00:14 You couldn't move your fingers?

00:15 Oh no, they were completely fixed. Fixed into a clenched fist.

00:18 And toes, you could... I could move a couple of toes on my left leg.

00:23 But there was sort of a little sign of life in them.

00:27 Maybe they could have saved a bit of a foot.

00:30 But my surgeon said, "You are better off having them off, because you can have prosthetics,

00:34 and you're far better than having a partial foot."

00:37 Was there any moment at which the surgeons thought...

00:40 I hope you don't mind me saying this, maybe Koti knows more, but...

00:44 Is it worth Craig carrying on? Is it going to be a difficult life after this?

00:49 Was there a choice to be made?

00:51 I don't think that ever happened to St Thomas', but I think those conversations certainly happened at Medway,

00:55 in the early stages.

00:56 What happened to you then?

00:57 Whether he ought to be on, do not resuscitate. Is it worth it?

01:03 So the choice was you could have been left to die,

01:06 and there was a choice made by Koti on your behalf not to die.

01:09 Yeah. Yeah.