Woman had leg amputated after tiny cat scratch led to horror infection

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A pensioner had her leg amputated after a tiny cat scratch left her with a horrifying flesh-eating infection.   Fran Oborski, 79, from Kidderminster, Worcester was petting a stray ginger cat, nicknamed Jaffa, when it nicked her leg with its claw.  She covered the 3cm (1in) scrape with antiseptic cream and put a plaster over it and thought nothing more about it.  But weeks later her leg started to ache and when she went to her GP she was told she had contracted cellulitis – a flesh eating bacterial infection.

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00:00I mean, the support I've had from the community has been fantastic.

00:04I'm Councillor Fran Aborski and owing to a cat scratch from 2022 which ended up going wrong

00:13and because I'm a diabetic led to ulcers, I've ended up having to have my left leg amputated.

00:18I'm a type 2 diabetic and having ignored a cat scratch a couple of years ago,

00:23I've ended up with cellulitis that became ulcers, became a blocked artery

00:28and I've had to have my left leg amputated.

00:30So my message to all diabetics is if you get a pet scratch, don't ignore it, take it seriously

00:37because if I'd acted more quickly and if I'd had the cellulitis that formed properly treated,

00:43I probably would never have had the ulcers and I'd still have two legs.

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