'It's like saying goodbye to old friends': Tory MP's harrowing final video ... trends now

MP Craig Mackinlay has shared the harrowing final video before he had both of his 'useless' hands and feet amputated after horrific sepsis left them 'dead' and 'gnarled'.

The Tory MP for South Thanet, 57, said he was 'lucky to be alive' after the horrific illness, which first afflicted him in September, left him with four prosthetic limbs.

He woke up from a 16-day coma in November with completely blackened limbs, due to the clots and lack of circulation caused by his illness.

Mr Mackinlay recorded from his hospital bed in St Thomas' Hospital in London on November 30, two months after being admitted, showing his blackened arms and feet the day before they were to be removed.

'The reality is that I probably shouldn't have survived this far,' he said.

He said that sepsis had caused the 'complete death of my hands and feet'.

'The reason for the doing the video today of course is that this is the last time that these old things that have served me well for 57 years will be attached to me.

'They look rather like peat-bog. They're sort of gnarled, dry, desiccated. It will be like saying goodbye to old friends.'

Mr Mackinlay had to have significant portions of his arms and legs removed to save his life. But the defiant parliamentarian has said he is now ready to return to Parliament - and wants to be known as the 'bionic MP'.

And speaking to GB News today, he said: 'The price I'm going to pay for living is some quite serious disability.'

Adding about the appearance of his arms and feet, he added they 'went completely black – they looked like pharaohs arms, sort of dug out of the desert'.

But he seemed upbeat, saying hopefully he 'might be a little taller' with his new bionic limbs.

The Kent MP started feeling unwell on September 27 but thought it was no worse than the beginnings of a cold, and he even took a Covid test which came back negative.

But his pharmacist wife Kati became more concerned for her husband's health throughout the night after testing his blood pressure and temperature. And she could not even feel a pulse on his stone cold arms by the morning. 

Speaking to GB News, Mrs Mackinlay said: 'The ambulance first didn't want to take him to hospital. The only bad marker he had was sugar level which was very very low but once he had breakfast that came back up.

'They were thinking whether to see his GP or rush him to hospital.'

She said they 'luckily' chose to send for an ambulance but when he arrived 'things started to speed up'.

Mr Mackinlay was suffering from the DIC effect - an out of control sepsis infection.

He had suffered multiple organ failure and started to turn blue after being rushed to hospital as the sepsis took hold.

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